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Leonardo da Vinci was a self-taught renaissance man.

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As a scientist, artist and inventor

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da Vinci's genius led to an unprecedented body of work.

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The drawings he left behind remain as testaments

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to his innovation and originality.

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One of da Vinci's main inhibitions was the lack of materials

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he needed to transform his concepts into reality.

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Jacque Fresco is also a self-taught scientist, architect and inventor.

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For his entire life he has been deeply committed to investigation

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insight and innovation.

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A prolific creator and builder

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Jacque has been redesigning our entire culture for most of his life.

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While da Vinci needed advanced materials

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Fresco has lacked access to the social and political resources needed

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to realize his most far-reaching ideas.

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AUGUST, 1974

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My guest is an extraordinary Miamian, Dr. Jacque Fresco.

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I could go through all the things that Dr. Fresco has done.

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He's a social engineer, industrial engineer, designer, inventor

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was a consultant for Rotorcraft Helicopter

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director of Scientific Research Laboratories, Los Angeles

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designed and copyrighted various items

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ranging from drafting instruments to X-ray units

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has had works published in Architectural Records

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Popular Mechanics, Saturday Review and has been

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a technical and psychological consultant of the motion picture industry

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member of the air force design development unit at Wright Field

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developed the electrostatic anti-icing systems

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designed prefabricated aluminum houses.

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What does it say in your driver's license?

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What is the occupation?  - Industrial Designer

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- Jacque, do you -social engineer -

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- Does it bug you that people

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when they talk about Jacque Fresco in Miami, say that

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he's someone who's too far ahead of this time?  His thinking, is....

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We're not ready for advanced kind of thinking. Not that type.

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Does it bug you? - I imagine every creative person in every field

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encounters that sort of problem.  No, it doesn't. I can't afford it.

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There's too many things that are important.

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Jacque Fresco is a futurist.

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A futurist is someone for whom all thoughts and actions

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are based upon what tomorrow could be.

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He has been planning for the future since the 1920s.

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Not only is he a philosopher and theorist

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but an engineer, industrial designer and social planner.

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As a multi-disciplinarian, he has studied everything from theology

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to behaviorism and from biology to the material sciences.

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Jacque Fresco, doesn't want to just talk about

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what today will be like, tomorrow.

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He has a plan to build an entire new world from the ground up.

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(Gazecki) I'd like to go from

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the time you first started conceiving of drawings.

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- Started drawing? Well, that's very early.

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Eight, nine... eight or nine years old.

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- About the future?  - Yes.

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I was always interested in the future as far back as I can remember.

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There was a motion picture called Metropolis.

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It was different; it took my attention.

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It was the first out-of-the-box type movie.

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It depicted the future as a regimented system

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which was totally unacceptable

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but the architecture was interesting and the robotics

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in that film were interesting.

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I drew airplanes and cities of the future

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underwater cities, floating cities

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and skyscrapers with landing platforms on them.

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I drew my idea of what a post office ought to be.

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Since the airport was so far from the post office

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they had a truck deliver that, I figured, here's these long post offices

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but why couldn't we land on top, pick up the mail directly and fly onward?

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So, I would draw landing platforms on the rooftops of the buildings

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slightly angular, so the airplane didn't have trouble landing.

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It couldn't be as long, but It'd be slowed up by the incline

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but then on take off they would go in reverse.

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Then I tried ships, drawings of passenger/freighter ships

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then aircraft carriers.

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And I showed it to my principal

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and he said "Have you ever heard of Bucky Fuller?"

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I said "No." So, he said "Would you like to meet him?"

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I said "Yeah, sure. Is he... what is he?"

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He says "He's an inventor like you.

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He thinks up a lot of new things."

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But Mr. Fuller was one of the 20th century's most renown futurists.

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Known primarily as the inventor of the Geodesic dome

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Fuller was a proponent of using technology with a humanistic approach.

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(Fresco) And there was Bucky Fuller.

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He was seated there with his car called the Dymaxium.

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And I said "What does that mean?" And he says "It is the highest form

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that can be attained in shape".

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I talked to him about social things. I said

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"What about changing society to some other form

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whereby all people can benefit from the works of industry?"

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He said  "What do you mean?" I said "Well

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"if instead of working people going out on strike

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give them a piece of the action.

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And so if business improved they all got automatic pay.

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If it went down, they got less pay."

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So, he sat back and he said:

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"What are you, some kind of social planner?

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Is that what you want to be?" I said "I don't know what the name is

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but I think that would work. It would give people more incentive."

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He says "Let me tell you something. It's tough enough

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just getting a new automobile out there.

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If you're trying to change society..."

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This was years before he even lectured on things.

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(Gazecki) Albert Einstein once said

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"The problems we have cannot be solved

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at the same level of thinking with which we created them."

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- Did you meet Einstein, Albert Einstein? - Yes.

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- Where did you get the idea to meet Albert Einstein?

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- I was outside a theater called Radio City

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and I saw a woman come out with gray hair sticking up.

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I said "It looks like Einstein's sister" to my friends!

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And then Einstein came out. And I think it was his sister.

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I was just kidding about that.

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And I walked over and I said "Is it possible to meet with you?"

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He said "Why?" I said "I have thousands of questions I want to ask."

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But, he says, uhm "I live in Princeton, New Jersey."

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- So tell me about the day you went and met him.

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- Well, I went to his home. And it was modest.

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I said that there seems to be harmony in nature.

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"How do you feel about that?"

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He says "Yes, the universe is lawful, but

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'harmony', I don't know what you mean by that."

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I said "Well when a rat eats insects

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it may be supporting the rat system but what about the insect system?"

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What he did is he used some water from the backyard swamp water

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and he put it under a microscope and he said "Look

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everything is fighting everything else.

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In the human body, everything is fighting everything else.

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In the ocean, big fish eat little fish".

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I didn't really have enough time to sit there with Einstein

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and go through all kinds of things

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because he didn't seem to be in that area.

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He did (imitating Einstein) "Are you interested in mathematics?"

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(still mocking) Mathematics... are you interested...

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"What boolean geometry means to you?" You know.

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I didn't wanted to get off into that

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because, to me, that would be a sidetrack.

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Mathematics is a tool, just like sociology and anthropology.

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These are all instruments to go into making up the future.

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(Gazecki) When the stock market crashed in 1929, Jacque was only 13 years old.

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Coming of age during in The Great Depression prompted many questions

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for the curious and inquisitive young man.

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Living in New York City, he found the squalor

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and suffering around him difficult to understand.

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The confusion, contradictions and struggles he saw

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left a significant impact on his character.

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(Fresco) Things were so bad that I had no way of looking at it;

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and I thought the rules of the game were somehow screwed up.

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I went to many different meetings: communist meetings

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socialist meetings, fascist meetings

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Mankind United, technocracy

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to see what the world was teaching, including Eastern philosophy.

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And I wanted to know what people thought, what they wanted

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why they gelled on one system.

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And that each time a society arrived at a system

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they tend to keep that system. They didn't even try to go beyond that

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but in technology, whenever we made anything, we try to surpass it.

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The history of civilization, to me then, was the history of change

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social change, human arrangements

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homes, boats, planes, trains;

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all of them were in the process of social evolution

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including our language, our outlook, our values, our behavior.

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(Gazecki) As the Depression wore on, Jacque left New York

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and started hitchhiking around the country.

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In his travels he met many interesting and different people

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most of whom were like himself searching for a way of life

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that was fair and equitable.

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Eventually, he ended up traveling to the warm waters

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and primitive islands of Tahiti.

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(Fresco) I wanted to go to the south seas because I liked the idea

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of the natives sharing things; I've read about that.

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Now, the chief, if he had six wives, and you were strange

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he said "Here's my best wife. Maybe she will please you?"

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They felt their wives gave them so much joy;

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perhaps they'd give a visitor some joy.

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Their thinking about it was different. And that upset...

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It caused me to ponder "gee, that's not the way I saw things.

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Was that the way I saw things, or was that the way I was indoctrinated?"

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That's when I began to ask those questions.

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How do you know that anything you like makes sense, Jacque?

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What about your own values? Think about them; maybe they are senseless.

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[Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941]

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(Gazecki) Concerned that Tahiti would be invaded, Jacque returned to the US

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and joined the army air corps.

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When the war was over thousands of factories stood idle.

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Their manufacturing capacity no longer needed for wartime production.

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Capitalizing on the tremendous capacity available for aluminum fabrication

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Jacque designed and built a house made entirely from aluminum extrusions.

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The result was an innovative and extremely efficient use

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of time and materials.

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(Fresco)The windows, for example, were put in and then

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extrusions snapped in and sit with a seal.

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And so it was very rapid. It took something like twelve minutes

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to put up all the windows.

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Eight hours to put up the building.

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1948, it was unveiled at Warner Bros

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and there were lines all around the studio.

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Thousands of people had come to see it. And airplanes...

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smoke... written in through the sky.

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"Visit The Trend Home at Warner Bros. Studio."

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It was publicized in newspapers. I think the Architectural Record...

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as one of the first mass-produced type homes.

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(Gazecki) Jacque appreciated the challenges of innovative problem solving.

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As he honed his skills he became a competent inventor.

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He always had a research lab and was constantly inventing new products.

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While much of his time was spent pursuing his own interests

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he was also hired by entrepreneurs to design and fabricate

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specific inventions, working in a very broad array of technologies.

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He invented everything from medical and dental devices

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to 3D motion picture projection systems.

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(Fresco) A guy named Jack Moss was a film producer at the time.

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I met him at Warner Bros. Studios. He came to see the Trend Home.

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And he was awed by everything fitting together so sensibly.

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And he said "How do you guys think of these things?"

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So, I began to describe how I thought about things

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then he found me interesting. And he said

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"Come on out to the house." And he had a big estate.

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And he said "Do you think you can make a movie projector

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that projects 3D images without glasses?"

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So I said, "Yes." He said, "How do you know you can do it?

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You've never done it." And I said "That's right."

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But if it's a physical phenomenon I think I can work it out."

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"How are you gonna' do it?" I said "I don't know yet."

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What I did is, I had many different applications

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which I'd rather not describe in detail.

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But I got 3D imaging different ways.

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And the simplest way was projecting the right and left eye image

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from behind the screen at the right eye and the left eye.

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If you moved over to the side you lost your image.

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And Jack wanted Technicolor to go the rest of the way.

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He got them to come out and look at it.

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"How do you do that? It's very interesting."

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I said "We're not at liberty to disclose that

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unless you back the next stage".

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So they said "Well, how do you maintain visual isolation?"

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I said "I still can't discuss that with you."

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They looked at it and it was super clear, no lines.

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They said "That's the best I've seen up to now, but

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it fades at thirty degrees." I said"  -Yes, it does."

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"And, at a distance it fades, too, as you move back."

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They said "Can you do anything about that?" I said "Yes.

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That's why you're here to take it to the next stage."

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So, they said, "Look, Jacque, you get rid of the fade

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and you get rid of the distance problem.  Then call us."

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That died... like the Trend Home died.

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Then I read in the books on inventions how Alexander Graham Bell

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had to make the telephone before they backed it.

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The Xerox machine had to be made, completely.

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Edison had to make the electric lamp. Nobody backed him

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on the way up...until after he was known.

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(Gazecki) What are these for? What were these all about?

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These are surgical instruments, aren't they?

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- Yes, various types, but those are only some of them.

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You know what a retractor is? - No

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- It holds the skin open while you're operating.

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These are various types of retractors.

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The purpose of that was to rotate

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the bone so it's in line before you put the prosthesis in.

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It rotates the femur, the upper region of the femur.

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Those are tweezers with holes in them...

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If look at the holes in the front... to put the sutures through to guide you

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through the muscle. You put it over the muscle and the holes

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are right through the middle of the muscle. You didn't have to eyeball it.

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- So these are things that you designed...- Long time ago.

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- Under contract? - Oh, yeah. - You contracted to design these things?

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- Yes. I did thousands of different things.

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But this doctor took the patents out in his name.

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But that's all right. I didn't know what was out there.

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I didn't know what I wanted to be.

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Since I looked at all things and tried to change all things.

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Wheelchairs, everything. Make them better... you know.

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I found it easy to invent.

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But, then, inventions cost money and I didn't have money for patents.

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I used to make thousands of different inventions

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and just filed them away, because I had no money.

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I used to spend my savings, whatever I earned

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on what equipment that I needed.

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And if I was working on an artificial leg

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and I was $200 behind,

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I would take my last $200 and work on that.

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I'd solve that problem, but then the rent would be due

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and the electric bills. I couldn't pay them.

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The auctioneers would be sent in to auction off everything in my lab.

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I had to sit back...I couldn't adjust

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to say "Well, I got $25 for rent

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$200 for this, for a machine..."

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I couldn't do that, because I was very near the answers

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and the type of problems I worked on were outside

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of the frame of reference of most science.

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In the fluorescent tube you have high voltage moving along

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and you have a transformer that generates it

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and you put a phosphor material that glows.

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But the tube is round and the phosphor on that back side does nothing.

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It's only the phosphor on the front side.

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I want to extrude the tube, so it's elliptical.

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You have more light surface in an elliptical tube.

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Then I wanted to mirror back, the back of the tube.

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Instead of putting a big reflector outside there

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put the mirror inside the tube.

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I didn't have the money to make that tube.

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Then I said "What a hell you are making a tube for?"

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Why don't you work on a flat sheet of glass that phosphors, that glows?

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Make glass that's electrically conductive.

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Well, how do you make a non-conductive electrically conductive?

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By putting metallic particles in the glass and phosphors. What would happen?

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The electric current would flow through the glass and animate the phosphors.

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You had a flat sheet. You don't want a lamp.

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A lamp is only giving light on one side.

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I wanted the whole surface to glow.

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(Gazecki) Over time, Jacque's ideas about the future

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became more well-organized and focused.

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Gradually, he began to combine his technological expertise

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with what he had learned about human behavior

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sociology and social structure.

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(Fresco) I spent so many years improving area by area, I said "Look,

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the whole society is aberrated the way we do things.

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Why not redesign society?

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It'd be easier than making all these thousands of products--

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(Gazecki) You really decided to re-design the culture...

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-Because I couldn't get...

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patchwork didn't work. It wasn't sufficient.

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They thought I was a communist.

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After all, the guy wanted to redesign society. What else?

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"The Larry King Show" - August,1974

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(Larry King) What is a socio-cybernering?

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- Socio-cybernering is a new organization

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and it represents the application of the most sofisticated forms

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of science and technology toward problem solving

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so that we can reclaim the environment

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which we loused up over the years;

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and to build a way of life worthy of man, to humanize society

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to break away from the artificiality, the regimentation

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that dominates our society today.

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Our society seems torn apart and pulled in many directions.

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Socio-cyberneering is an approach

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at the restructuring of society in humanistic terms.

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- Humanistic terms, yes.

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(Gazecki) The mission of socio-cyberneering was to build

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a residential research center, developing

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and demonstrating new technologies and innovative social concepts

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within a community setting.

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On a barren scrap of land in central Florida

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Jacque and a few friends began to build what is now known as

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The Venus Project, named after the tiny nearby village of Venus, Florida.

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Occupying some 25 acres, 10 buildings have been constructed.

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Each utilizes both design, construction and lifestyle concepts

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integral to developing a working model of harmony and high productivity

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integrating both nature and advanced technology.

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Jacque's objective of conducting a complete reassessment and redesign

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of our entire culture remains the central focus of his work.

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With The Venus Project he has created an environment

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conducive to creativity and innovation.

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(R. Meadows) When people come here they're amazed to hear

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that this was just a flat tomato patch.

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We've dug out streams and ponds

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and planted hundreds of palm trees and trees

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We built this land to show what the outskirts of the city would be like.

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We have many buildings here, but you can't see one building when you're in another.

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We really wanted to show how high-tech and nature

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could coexist within this environment.

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(Gazecki) Jacque and Roxanne have been living on the property

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and building The Venus Project since the late 1970s.

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The entire time has been a constant process of developing

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and implementing new ideas.

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Jacque begins with a drawing, then produces a scale model

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and then videotapes his models in order to demonstrate

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his concepts for the future.

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Although Venus, Florida is relatively isolated

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visitors often make the journey to see The Venus Project

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and to meet Jacque.

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-Joan. - I'm Margaret. - Hi, Margaret.

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I'm not going to remember your names, but...

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I'm Jacque. Hi, how are you? Good to see you. How are you?

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Have a seat, and then we'll go on with what this is about.

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Is everybody here?

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So, there was a time when most people believe

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that the decisions of the majority

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were very close to reality.

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But there was also a time when the majority of people

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believed the Earth was flat.

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And if you asked them whether they were sincere, they said "Of course!

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You can see it's flat!" So, they break a sincerity meter.

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But it isn't sincerity that the world needs.

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It needs the intelligent management of the Earth's resources.

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It's what we don't have. The major contribution...

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The Future by Design would like to provide is

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a method of coping with problems.

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Now, you're brought up to believe, I believe this

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that everyone should have a right to their own opinion.

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Isn't that the way you were brought up? - Yes, sir. - Okay.

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When you got everybody going around and giving their opinion

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"I'll tell you what's wrong with Jim!" They've got all kinds of opinions.

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But when engineers talk to each other they don't say "Believe me."

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They say "See this new metal?

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It can hold up 4,000 pounds per square inch."

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He puts it in a machine and pulls it apart and he says "You're right!"

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I would say that the majority of the people of the world today are unsane.

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Not insane, unsane meaning:

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having been exposed to methods of evaluation

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that are long rendered obsolete.

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Our language in the future will change to a saner language

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where we have no argument in it.

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I said "Can there be such a language?" There is!

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When engineers talk to each other it's not subject to interpretation.

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They use math; they use descriptive systems.

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If I interpreted what another engineer said in the way I think he meant it

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you couldn't build bridges. You couldn't build dams

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or power transmission lines.

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The language has to have meaning.

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That's why when a doctor writes a prescription, if he prints it.

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It's the same all over the world.

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The world I'm talking about is different.

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(Meadows) There aren't too many people that have seen everything

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that he's gone through in the past

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and come out of it with a certain direction.

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And the interesting thing is, too, is that he's not a philosopher

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that talks about how the world should be. His point of view.

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He's a technician that understands how it can be built

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and has worked with people and understands what it takes to change them

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and understands what it was that made them that way.

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So it's really based on hands-on learning

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and not reading something in a book.

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He went through the experiences himself

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and came out with the conclusions he did

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because it was based on actually learning-experience

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and experiments.

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(Fresco) When an engineer has an idea he talks to the computer about his idea.

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While they're talking about it the integrated computerized system

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will take the elements that they're speaking about

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convert the language into imagery

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and the image will turn

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and be exposed to all of the people watching

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at the exhibit and presentation.

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They will question the presentation

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but the image system will answer the questions

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how the buildings are fabricated, how water is supplied

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how it handles earthquakes, or any other question.

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Instead of people sitting around asking individual questions

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the answers are demonstrated inside

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of what appears to be a transparent dome.

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Ideas are not just verbal, because when you talk verbally

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it does not deliver enough information to people.

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A more comprehensive system of communication

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is 3-dimensional imaging always

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showing people what you've got in mind

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not what they think you've got in mind.

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- Designed with a holographic computer and built from prefabricated materials

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the home of the future will be far more than just a residence.

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It will be an element of lifestyle

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and will facilitate learning, inspiration and communication.

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(Fresco) One of the most interesting aspects of tomorrow's civilization

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will be the fact that if you knew anyone fairly well

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and went to visit them in a period of time of just a few years

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their houses will change, because the people living in them change.

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Their needs and dimension of knowledge grows considerably

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and so will the environment that they live in. There's no such thing

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as a fixed home that a person lives in all their lives.

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It changes with their values, with their outlook

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with their acquired knowledge.

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- You had said one thing about how the buildings

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were designed according to function.  -Yes

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- The curvature, and the materials, and the... -Yes

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I compare it to natural physiology

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an animal's shape is not designed from the outside in;

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It evolves from the inside out.

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Whatever you request, the exterior will express

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a cover over the shape that you'd prefer to live in.

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Some of the buildings that are dome-shaped

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can be laid like eggs continuously

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by a machine that carries a dome shape.

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And in that dome the exterior

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and the interior fabricate at the same time.

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Not everyone will choose to live in a dome.

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They will choose to live in whatever architectural shape

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would meet their needs.

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The reason why we suggest a dome

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is it uses the minimum amount of materials and

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covers the maximum areas and offers maximum strength.

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The dome shape is included in almost all of nature.

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Your brain is in a dome. The cranial case is in a dome.

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When a person says "Yeah, I don't think I'd want to live in a dome";

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you've been living in a dome most of your life.

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The interior of the building will have no source of light.

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You won't be able to see a lamp or source of light.

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All the walls would have even illumination.

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You can also specify the color of the illumination.

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Either, the entire inner surface or local areas

490
00:32:43,495 --> 00:32:47,195
of different color; if this is your request.

491
00:32:48,915 --> 00:32:51,325
This will be the simplest type of bathroom

492
00:32:51,745 --> 00:32:56,695
shower, sink, toilet bowl, molded into one system.

493
00:32:57,075 --> 00:33:00,555
Actually, there's no hardware on here.

494
00:33:00,695 --> 00:33:04,645
but there's a slot and the water comes out as a ribbon

495
00:33:04,795 --> 00:33:07,215
and that'll cut the soap off the hand

496
00:33:07,505 --> 00:33:10,895
and use about 1/6th the amount of water.

497
00:33:11,035 --> 00:33:13,825
Now, the waste water from the sink

498
00:33:13,975 --> 00:33:17,915
goes down into a pipe around here and fills the water closet

499
00:33:18,065 --> 00:33:20,415
and we flush the john with that water.

500
00:33:20,555 --> 00:33:25,395
Instead of telling people to save water, build a system in.

501
00:33:25,545 --> 00:33:28,895
This is what it's all about, if you wish to conserve water.

502
00:33:29,135 --> 00:33:33,035
The bathrooms may vary from that simple style

503
00:33:33,195 --> 00:33:37,296
to slightly more complex, but all one piece.

504
00:33:37,445 --> 00:33:41,425
There may be as many as fifty variations on a bathroom.

505
00:33:41,575 --> 00:33:45,195
You pick what you want and then it's installed.

506
00:33:49,195 --> 00:33:53,195
When you leave the building, the entire building is clean.

507
00:33:55,395 --> 00:33:58,425
We also have a slight increase in air pressure in the building;

508
00:33:58,575 --> 00:34:01,875
so no dust comes in your house from the outside.

509
00:34:04,195 --> 00:34:06,375
If there's any contaminants in the air

510
00:34:06,525 --> 00:34:11,195
it increases the electrostatic charge, which removes contaminants.

511
00:34:14,005 --> 00:34:18,195
It would be a smart house, because the house has its own nervous system.

512
00:34:18,475 --> 00:34:20,975
This is what I'm saying.

513
00:34:23,515 --> 00:34:27,435
In the future houses will have many sensory devices

514
00:34:27,585 --> 00:34:30,795
to detect fire, toxic materials

515
00:34:30,995 --> 00:34:33,375
anything that may threaten the life of a human being.

516
00:34:33,525 --> 00:34:35,705
If you walked into the house of the future

517
00:34:35,845 --> 00:34:38,195
you might say "Can I use your phone?"

518
00:34:38,625 --> 00:34:40,715
I'd say "Well, what's a phone?"

519
00:34:40,865 --> 00:34:44,475
You'd just say "I'd like to talk to Sam in Arabia".

520
00:34:44,615 --> 00:34:46,985
"What part of Arabia?" You just announce what you want

521
00:34:47,125 --> 00:34:49,365
and the sound would be focused and at some point

522
00:34:49,505 --> 00:34:54,195
you are standing, right at your ear. So, you can hear Sam in Arabia.

523
00:34:58,295 --> 00:35:01,425
In southern Florida, millions of dollars

524
00:35:01,575 --> 00:35:05,125
in buildings were destroyed by the big hurricane there

525
00:35:05,265 --> 00:35:08,465
and they'd put up buildings that look just about the same.

526
00:35:08,815 --> 00:35:11,055
If you don't want hurricane damage...

527
00:35:11,195 --> 00:35:15,265
an inverted cone...it's almost impossible

528
00:35:15,405 --> 00:35:18,375
for a whirlwind to pick up an inverted cone.

529
00:35:18,515 --> 00:35:20,795
We would have these shelters built

530
00:35:20,935 --> 00:35:23,955
in the West Indies or wherever hurricanes occur.

531
00:35:24,105 --> 00:35:27,435
Inside would be pull-down bedding

532
00:35:27,575 --> 00:35:30,495
food storage and emergency water.

533
00:35:30,645 --> 00:35:35,335
This is the kind of form that no vortex or wind can pick up.

534
00:35:35,485 --> 00:35:38,455
Try to pick this up with greasy fingers

535
00:35:39,065 --> 00:35:42,195
and that's similar to the wind whirling around it.

536
00:35:58,155 --> 00:36:00,935
(Gazecki) For apartment buildings and other large structures

537
00:36:01,085 --> 00:36:04,595
Jacque has devised a cybernated construction system.

538
00:36:05,075 --> 00:36:07,575
Computer-controlled robots will handle 90%

539
00:36:07,715 --> 00:36:11,715
of the movement and placement of prefabricated components.

540
00:36:12,395 --> 00:36:14,565
Special advanced materials are to be developed

541
00:36:14,705 --> 00:36:18,295
eliminating waste and minimizing the need for manual labor.

542
00:36:18,975 --> 00:36:21,535
Guided by satellite and using a sophisticated form

543
00:36:21,665 --> 00:36:25,915
of artificial intelligence, the buildings will construct themselves;

544
00:36:26,065 --> 00:36:30,195
a technique Jacque has named "self-erecting structures".

545
00:36:34,615 --> 00:36:39,555
This represents a relatively complex aluminum extrusion.

546
00:36:39,995 --> 00:36:42,325
If you were to take a toothpaste tube

547
00:36:42,465 --> 00:36:47,455
cut the letter "T" in the opening and squeeze the toothpaste

548
00:36:47,595 --> 00:36:50,155
it would come out like the letter "T";

549
00:36:50,295 --> 00:36:53,195
and this is how extrusions are made.

550
00:36:53,925 --> 00:36:57,145
However, in the future it may be possible

551
00:36:57,285 --> 00:37:00,415
to extrude complete apartment houses

552
00:37:00,555 --> 00:37:03,555
apartment building units or modules.

553
00:37:05,955 --> 00:37:09,855
This extruder can be faced with different dies

554
00:37:10,005 --> 00:37:12,055
to mold different shapes.

555
00:37:12,195 --> 00:37:16,195
Almost an infinite variety of shapes can be extruded.

556
00:37:16,515 --> 00:37:20,935
So, it would be the apartment of your preference that's extruded.

557
00:37:22,025 --> 00:37:26,115
So, any shape, or almost any extruded shape

558
00:37:26,255 --> 00:37:30,975
can be designed to fit many different architectural arrangements.

559
00:37:35,155 --> 00:37:37,975
This is a transitional type structure

560
00:37:38,115 --> 00:37:42,615
which utilizes cranes to lift the components of the building.

561
00:37:43,875 --> 00:37:46,935
Eventually, the building itself will be part

562
00:37:47,085 --> 00:37:49,885
of the self-erecting structure.

563
00:37:55,315 --> 00:37:58,695
Don't forget all the models that I do are only transitional.

564
00:37:58,845 --> 00:38:02,495
They don't represent the best that man can turn out

565
00:38:02,645 --> 00:38:05,385
because no one knows what the future will bring.

566
00:38:05,625 --> 00:38:10,195
There's just so many variables that can alter things.

567
00:38:10,355 --> 00:38:13,945
So the models that I make are all transitional.

568
00:38:14,095 --> 00:38:17,625
And many of them are only conceptual; they're not necessarily

569
00:38:17,775 --> 00:38:20,275
what the future might look like.

570
00:38:22,755 --> 00:38:24,975
Let's say they're extrapolations

571
00:38:25,195 --> 00:38:28,745
of taking the present and extrapolating forward.

572
00:38:28,895 --> 00:38:31,295
But we can't go too far forward

573
00:38:31,445 --> 00:38:35,775
because we don't know what new things will come into being.

574
00:38:46,365 --> 00:38:49,655
This looks like a train station.

575
00:38:49,965 --> 00:38:53,775
We hope to phase out the airplane by designing

576
00:38:54,285 --> 00:38:57,545
transportation units that can move up to 2000 miles an hour

577
00:38:57,695 --> 00:39:01,495
floating on a magnetic repulsive field or an air cushion.

578
00:39:01,765 --> 00:39:05,025
In those huge trains of tomorrow there'll be television

579
00:39:05,285 --> 00:39:08,045
radio, amusement, art centers, classrooms;

580
00:39:08,195 --> 00:39:11,555
not a group of seats lined up as your trains are today.

581
00:39:11,705 --> 00:39:14,135
If forty or fifty people have to leave the train

582
00:39:14,275 --> 00:39:16,075
we slow up to a hundred miles an hour

583
00:39:16,195 --> 00:39:19,225
lift off the passenger section or slide it off

584
00:39:19,375 --> 00:39:22,055
and slide on a section with the passengers getting on.

585
00:39:22,195 --> 00:39:24,705
You don't have to stop the whole plane, or the train.

586
00:39:24,855 --> 00:39:27,475
In the future we will just shove off those passengers

587
00:39:27,615 --> 00:39:29,675
getting off and that freight leaving.

588
00:39:29,815 --> 00:39:32,195
This is part of the linear acceleration train

589
00:39:32,345 --> 00:39:35,396
that can take you anywhere in the world in just a few hours;

590
00:39:35,545 --> 00:39:39,055
safely, without snow, rain, being lost at sea...

591
00:39:52,775 --> 00:39:56,995
A monorail is one of the methods of transportation.

592
00:39:57,145 --> 00:40:00,835
Some of them can be suspended by magnetic levitation.

593
00:40:00,985 --> 00:40:04,195
Others can use wheels and ride the rails.

594
00:40:07,055 --> 00:40:11,285
This is an aerial perspective of a monorail station

595
00:40:11,435 --> 00:40:14,905
with entrance and exits on the side of the highway.

596
00:40:15,125 --> 00:40:17,535
This is actually a true monorail

597
00:40:17,675 --> 00:40:22,835
because it is one rail system that supports two trains.

598
00:40:22,975 --> 00:40:27,975
Most monorails aren't really monorail; they consist of two tracks.

599
00:40:28,505 --> 00:40:31,195
This is accomplished on one track.

600
00:40:48,175 --> 00:40:52,425
The vehicles of the future will be highly aerodynamic in shape.

601
00:40:53,045 --> 00:40:56,555
Their shape will permit the minimum amount of skin resistance

602
00:40:56,705 --> 00:41:01,565
giving you the maximum distance for minimum fuel consumption.

603
00:41:01,715 --> 00:41:05,055
The front end of the car will be equipped with radar or sonar

604
00:41:05,195 --> 00:41:08,545
or other sensory devices that can detect the distance

605
00:41:08,695 --> 00:41:13,665
you are from other vehicles and maintain that separation automatically.

606
00:41:13,825 --> 00:41:18,445
In other words, on a highway or anywhere where two cars

607
00:41:18,735 --> 00:41:21,845
might hit each other, the electronic sensors

608
00:41:22,035 --> 00:41:24,825
would sense the distance automatically

609
00:41:24,975 --> 00:41:29,445
and keep the cars from side-swiping or making contact at all.

610
00:41:30,195 --> 00:41:34,485
Even if they did and then pinched a slight dent in the car

611
00:41:34,635 --> 00:41:37,195
the car would be made up of the memory materials;

612
00:41:37,355 --> 00:41:39,615
shape-memory alloys that go back

613
00:41:39,755 --> 00:41:42,795
to their original shape even when dented.

614
00:41:43,635 --> 00:41:47,195
I'm going to take this metal called nitinol.

615
00:41:47,375 --> 00:41:51,475
This wire, or spring, is wound around a mandrel and

616
00:41:51,625 --> 00:41:56,495
heated to a specific temperature and held until it cools.

617
00:41:57,145 --> 00:42:01,265
Then, when you pull it out beyond its elastic limit

618
00:42:01,405 --> 00:42:04,485
so it's not about to return to the spring shape

619
00:42:04,635 --> 00:42:08,635
and then you form it in many different ways.

620
00:42:08,855 --> 00:42:12,375
If it's heated... I'll put it on this form

621
00:42:12,525 --> 00:42:15,255
so it won't drift away

622
00:42:15,405 --> 00:42:17,625
and I'm going to heat that metal

623
00:42:17,775 --> 00:42:21,265
you can watch it return to its original shape.

624
00:42:21,415 --> 00:42:23,875
It's called "shape-memory alloys".

625
00:42:24,015 --> 00:42:26,475
It could be done in plastics, metals

626
00:42:26,615 --> 00:42:29,305
or any other materials in the future.

627
00:42:29,455 --> 00:42:31,895
Watch how it returns.

628
00:42:41,035 --> 00:42:44,045
Even if there's an area of the car we removed

629
00:42:44,215 --> 00:42:48,685
they can be rebuilt, in other words, automatically

630
00:42:48,835 --> 00:42:53,195
by the car having a memory system of its configuration

631
00:42:53,385 --> 00:42:56,235
just, like the human body, just like, perhaps

632
00:42:56,385 --> 00:43:01,655
in lizards and salamanders and certain types of organisms today

633
00:43:01,805 --> 00:43:04,385
can regenerate parts of their body.

634
00:43:04,535 --> 00:43:08,715
The technology of the future will enable our automotive vehicles

635
00:43:08,865 --> 00:43:12,825
to repair and regenerate damaged areas.

636
00:43:23,745 --> 00:43:27,755
This is a transport unit, or air-suspended unit.

637
00:43:27,905 --> 00:43:31,425
It will travel five or four feet above the ground

638
00:43:31,575 --> 00:43:33,965
and not requiring highways or bridges.

639
00:43:34,105 --> 00:43:36,985
You can turn around by electrodynamic means

640
00:43:37,135 --> 00:43:39,175
discharging air from the right or the left side

641
00:43:39,285 --> 00:43:45,065
not by tunneled air paths, but just by attracting or repelling air.

642
00:43:54,565 --> 00:43:57,455
I did this about 65 years ago.

643
00:43:57,605 --> 00:44:00,595
This is what an automobile will look like in the future.

644
00:44:00,745 --> 00:44:03,485
It'll have sensors on it. So, if I got mad at you

645
00:44:03,625 --> 00:44:06,155
and, when I get within a certain distance, the breaks go on.

646
00:44:06,295 --> 00:44:09,295
If I'm backing up and there's a child crossing, the car stops.

647
00:44:09,995 --> 00:44:12,795
No one drowns in a swimming pool, because a net comes up

648
00:44:12,945 --> 00:44:14,995
when you're not home. Is that clear?

649
00:44:15,135 --> 00:44:18,605
If somebody falls in the pool and you're busy cooking...

650
00:44:18,755 --> 00:44:21,715
the child sinks to the bottom, a tight net comes up right away.

651
00:44:21,855 --> 00:44:24,855
What do you want? What kind of world do you want?

652
00:44:25,295 --> 00:44:29,295
What you see here is just glimpses of the future.

653
00:44:30,715 --> 00:44:35,195
So, we'll go and look the place over so you've got a better idea.

654
00:44:37,295 --> 00:44:40,505
That area over there, across the water

655
00:44:40,905 --> 00:44:44,995
we will build a very large dome like a center for dialogue

656
00:44:45,275 --> 00:44:47,915
to invite different people out here.

657
00:45:21,435 --> 00:45:24,475
This is a freighter with separate sections.

658
00:45:25,115 --> 00:45:27,895
This freighter can deliver this to the Philippines

659
00:45:28,035 --> 00:45:30,515
drop this off in Hawaii... And so

660
00:45:30,665 --> 00:45:33,395
when all of the freight bays are released

661
00:45:33,545 --> 00:45:38,095
they are propelled automatically to the loading docks.

662
00:45:38,245 --> 00:45:41,325
And then the forward portion of the ship and the rear portion

663
00:45:41,475 --> 00:45:44,645
which is the propulsion unit, are joined together.

664
00:45:44,785 --> 00:45:47,775
So you always travel at a balanced load;

665
00:45:47,925 --> 00:45:50,605
you never travel with an empty hull back.

666
00:45:50,755 --> 00:45:56,695
Using energy that way conserves millions of gallons of fuel

667
00:45:56,865 --> 00:46:00,195
if you use fuel in a conventional sense.

668
00:46:01,555 --> 00:46:05,935
This is a possible propulsion method. In this instance

669
00:46:06,085 --> 00:46:10,085
water is drawn toward the surface of the ship electrodynamically.

670
00:46:10,625 --> 00:46:14,155
And, in turn, the ship's reaction is forward

671
00:46:14,305 --> 00:46:16,375
away from the pressure toward the rear.

672
00:46:16,525 --> 00:46:20,995
It's like holding a peach pit, and squeezing it, and it moves forward.

673
00:46:21,695 --> 00:46:24,965
It has far less wake

674
00:46:25,115 --> 00:46:27,065
less water turbulence

675
00:46:27,215 --> 00:46:29,665
and very little energy consumed.

676
00:46:32,045 --> 00:46:34,445
What you see here is an illustration

677
00:46:34,595 --> 00:46:38,195
of underwater transportation for the future.

678
00:46:38,435 --> 00:46:42,395
At the very leading edge air bubbles will be emitted

679
00:46:42,545 --> 00:46:44,545
very rapidly in front of the unit

680
00:46:44,665 --> 00:46:47,145
and that will cut down the resistance considerably.

681
00:46:47,285 --> 00:46:49,665
If you were to release thousands of air bubbles

682
00:46:49,825 --> 00:46:52,225
underneath the ship, it would sink

683
00:46:52,375 --> 00:46:56,205
because the water is less buoyant with the air bubbles in it.

684
00:46:56,355 --> 00:46:59,045
The air bubbles will be a system in the future

685
00:46:59,205 --> 00:47:01,705
for reducing the forward resistance.

686
00:47:03,195 --> 00:47:07,195
Transporting things underwater is much more economical

687
00:47:07,565 --> 00:47:10,045
and offers much less resistance.

688
00:47:10,435 --> 00:47:12,495
When traveling on the surface, you're confronted

689
00:47:12,615 --> 00:47:15,115
with waves and wave motion.

690
00:47:15,255 --> 00:47:18,255
Underwater you don't have that problem at all.

691
00:47:24,025 --> 00:47:28,495
We talk about civilization as though it's a static state.

692
00:47:28,655 --> 00:47:30,895
There are no civilized people yet.

693
00:47:31,045 --> 00:47:34,055
It's a process that's constantly going on.

694
00:47:34,195 --> 00:47:37,535
We're not civilized. It's an ongoing process;

695
00:47:37,685 --> 00:47:41,055
and so we never become fully civilized.

696
00:47:41,215 --> 00:47:44,145
We'd have to know quite a bit in order to behave

697
00:47:44,325 --> 00:47:47,085
in the most constructive manner.

698
00:47:47,235 --> 00:47:50,045
And that goes for intelligence.

699
00:47:50,195 --> 00:47:53,395
I don't know if I've talked to you about an electrical engineer

700
00:47:53,535 --> 00:47:58,165
of 75 years ago, an intelligent one, couldn't get a job today.

701
00:47:58,495 --> 00:48:01,495
When you're talking about intelligence, what are you talking about?

702
00:48:01,645 --> 00:48:04,015
It's an ongoing process.

703
00:48:04,165 --> 00:48:06,935
That's why there's no such thing as an intelligent person.

704
00:48:07,075 --> 00:48:11,145
There are people that are fairly well-informed in area A and B

705
00:48:11,285 --> 00:48:13,515
not informed in area C.

706
00:48:13,665 --> 00:48:16,825
When you go on with a word like civilization

707
00:48:16,965 --> 00:48:19,625
it sounds like something that was attained.

708
00:48:19,775 --> 00:48:23,795
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime

709
00:48:23,955 --> 00:48:26,135
you're in the early stages of civilization;

710
00:48:26,265 --> 00:48:29,195
what they call civilization.

711
00:48:45,995 --> 00:48:49,125
This type of helicopter, or aircraft

712
00:48:49,285 --> 00:48:52,805
would have its propulsion unit at the tip of the blades.

713
00:48:52,955 --> 00:48:56,195
They'd be relatively small, high thrust.

714
00:48:57,305 --> 00:49:00,495
The center of the disc, or the passenger compartment

715
00:49:00,735 --> 00:49:04,945
would remain stationary while the blades spun around.

716
00:49:05,595 --> 00:49:07,965
In the event of engine failure

717
00:49:08,115 --> 00:49:12,595
the blades can automatically gyrate and bring the craft down

718
00:49:12,745 --> 00:49:16,695
not only vertically but can travel forward by tilting.

719
00:49:21,845 --> 00:49:25,955
You will notice that there are no ailerons or elevators on this plane.

720
00:49:26,105 --> 00:49:30,195
It's operated in a different manner, also by ion propulsion.

721
00:49:30,885 --> 00:49:35,245
Electron discharge is much lighter, much cheaper, much safer

722
00:49:35,385 --> 00:49:38,455
much faster and less energy consumed.

723
00:49:40,225 --> 00:49:42,835
In the future, by controlling the airflow

724
00:49:42,975 --> 00:49:45,335
over wings and the direction of it

725
00:49:45,475 --> 00:49:50,425
the need for a rudder will be rendered obsolete.

726
00:49:55,335 --> 00:49:58,325
For individual transportation of small groups

727
00:49:58,475 --> 00:50:01,745
you have the vertical landing and take-off

728
00:50:01,895 --> 00:50:06,475
VTOL aircraft of the future. They are called "lift fuselage".

729
00:50:06,625 --> 00:50:09,875
The body itself generates the lift

730
00:50:10,025 --> 00:50:13,875
for this type of aircraft. It is propelled electronically

731
00:50:14,135 --> 00:50:17,845
meaning particles are electrified and discharged

732
00:50:17,995 --> 00:50:21,845
from the rear of the craft; which propel the craft forward.

733
00:50:21,995 --> 00:50:27,085
For hovering, we then eject the same propellant downward

734
00:50:27,575 --> 00:50:32,725
and generate a ring vortex, a whirling vortex beneath the craft.

735
00:50:32,875 --> 00:50:37,195
The control of that vortex determines the speed downward.

736
00:50:49,175 --> 00:50:52,335
We're going over to the model dome where we have models

737
00:50:52,475 --> 00:50:56,875
of future type buildings and how they go together.

738
00:51:02,455 --> 00:51:05,055
Here you have the city system.

739
00:51:05,565 --> 00:51:08,565
I put domes here, but there'll be many variations.

740
00:51:08,755 --> 00:51:11,045
In other words... - What are those?

741
00:51:11,335 --> 00:51:14,475
- These are research centers. - Okay.  -This is medicine

742
00:51:14,625 --> 00:51:18,385
agronomy, population designing

743
00:51:18,605 --> 00:51:21,945
improvement of products, energy systems.

744
00:51:22,245 --> 00:51:24,715
Energy in the future will be geothermal, most of it.

745
00:51:24,855 --> 00:51:27,595
You can get that from the earth. There's enough geothermal energy

746
00:51:27,745 --> 00:51:30,945
for thousands of years without worrying about anything.

747
00:51:31,095 --> 00:51:35,885
I'm not talking about solar, wind power or wave power

748
00:51:36,025 --> 00:51:38,265
or tidal power. All that is extra.

749
00:51:38,415 --> 00:51:42,515
There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.

750
00:51:43,085 --> 00:51:45,985
- You can't make money from the sun. - What's that?

751
00:51:46,135 --> 00:51:50,605
- You can't make money from the sun! - No, you can't. Exactly that.

752
00:51:51,865 --> 00:51:55,065
All these buildings can come apart and be recycled.

753
00:51:55,945 --> 00:51:58,945
Now if you follow me we'll go to the future.

754
00:52:01,355 --> 00:52:05,235
(Larry King) Alright, let's explore the thinking of Jacque Fresco

755
00:52:05,375 --> 00:52:08,135
and the society he'd like to see.

756
00:52:08,335 --> 00:52:10,505
We'll start with this, and you tell me...

757
00:52:10,655 --> 00:52:13,285
- I'll try to point it out. - Yeah, you can point right at it.

758
00:52:13,435 --> 00:52:17,155
- Most of the cities are based on natural configurations

759
00:52:17,295 --> 00:52:20,195
basic designs in nature. The center of the city

760
00:52:20,335 --> 00:52:23,565
the nucleus, will house an electronic computer

761
00:52:23,715 --> 00:52:28,385
which only controls water purification, the atmospheric conditions

762
00:52:28,535 --> 00:52:31,475
that is, it controls air contamination systems

763
00:52:31,625 --> 00:52:34,865
they maintain safety, they oversee the environment

764
00:52:35,075 --> 00:52:39,345
maintain ecological balance between animal life and plant life.

765
00:52:39,535 --> 00:52:42,065
The center of the city is a university.

766
00:52:42,215 --> 00:52:46,265
A university that covers all subjects related to man.

767
00:52:46,405 --> 00:52:49,635
There's no courses that are used to exploit

768
00:52:49,785 --> 00:52:52,785
or abuse any other human being.

769
00:52:53,125 --> 00:52:56,685
All repetitious jobs will be phased out.

770
00:52:56,835 --> 00:52:59,925
We feel that machines ought to do the filthy

771
00:53:00,075 --> 00:53:02,425
or the repetitious, or the boring jobs

772
00:53:02,575 --> 00:53:06,465
that man has to be free to pursue the higher things

773
00:53:06,615 --> 00:53:09,195
the higher possibilities of man.

774
00:53:13,505 --> 00:53:17,145
(Gazecki) You came up with this idea for a round city.

775
00:53:17,295 --> 00:53:20,065
- A round city. A round governmental branch.

776
00:53:20,215 --> 00:53:24,355
Extending out of it would be the department of agriculture

777
00:53:24,505 --> 00:53:29,435
education, oceanography, the disciplines.

778
00:53:33,105 --> 00:53:36,735
The circular scheme, or plan, brings each district

779
00:53:36,885 --> 00:53:40,525
closer to the central dome, which contains the medical

780
00:53:40,675 --> 00:53:44,265
food, shopping, everything else that people need.

781
00:53:44,415 --> 00:53:48,665
The circular arrangement makes it easier to operate

782
00:53:48,815 --> 00:53:52,165
using far less energy than any other system.

783
00:53:52,315 --> 00:53:55,455
If you start at one end of the city and go through the city

784
00:53:55,605 --> 00:53:57,605
you'll always return to the same place.

785
00:53:57,725 --> 00:54:00,105
Whereas, in a linear city, you go to one end

786
00:54:00,245 --> 00:54:03,195
you have to backtrack to get to the same point.

787
00:54:03,355 --> 00:54:07,486
The circular scheme is, by far, the most efficient.

788
00:54:07,625 --> 00:54:09,895
When cities are contracted in the future

789
00:54:10,045 --> 00:54:14,115
they will be contracted as a whole, as an entire system.

790
00:54:14,255 --> 00:54:17,975
In that way, all of the parts and components

791
00:54:18,125 --> 00:54:21,135
would be delivered in stages, like sequence one

792
00:54:21,285 --> 00:54:24,515
will be the underground: the heating system

793
00:54:24,665 --> 00:54:29,795
the electric generators, the piping systems, the recycling systems.

794
00:54:29,945 --> 00:54:32,865
After that, the next layer, which would serve

795
00:54:33,005 --> 00:54:37,415
as the first layer that contains the architecture

796
00:54:37,675 --> 00:54:39,995
the foundations for all the buildings.

797
00:54:40,135 --> 00:54:44,195
After that, the erection of structures up from the foundations

798
00:54:44,695 --> 00:54:47,545
starting with the central portion of the city

799
00:54:47,695 --> 00:54:51,635
working its way out to the different radial sectors

800
00:54:51,785 --> 00:54:54,795
and then out to the final housing sectors

801
00:54:54,945 --> 00:54:59,935
and then to the agricultural belt, and then to the recreation areas.

802
00:55:01,785 --> 00:55:04,755
The cities themselves are prefabricated.

803
00:55:04,895 --> 00:55:09,165
Most of the elements that comprise the structures of the cities

804
00:55:09,315 --> 00:55:11,555
are interchangeable, interlocking.

805
00:55:11,675 --> 00:55:14,675
They are designed so they can be disassembled

806
00:55:14,825 --> 00:55:16,935
just as they were assembled.

807
00:55:17,085 --> 00:55:21,195
The new cities will be updated continuously.

808
00:55:22,855 --> 00:55:25,575
As the waters are piped into the cities

809
00:55:25,725 --> 00:55:29,775
they are checked. To whatever extent contamination exists

810
00:55:30,165 --> 00:55:33,045
the water processing plants evaporate the water

811
00:55:33,195 --> 00:55:36,115
recondense it and cleanse it.

812
00:55:36,265 --> 00:55:40,115
All waters piped into the city will be monitored constantly

813
00:55:40,265 --> 00:55:44,545
not by a monitoring system, but several monitoring systems.

814
00:55:44,695 --> 00:55:47,535
The same is true of the air above and around the city:

815
00:55:47,815 --> 00:55:50,315
it's constantly monitored.

816
00:55:53,455 --> 00:55:57,195
All of the rooftops are photovoltaic.

817
00:55:57,345 --> 00:56:00,045
All of the skin, outer skin of the building

818
00:56:00,195 --> 00:56:03,785
convert solar radiation into electrical energy.

819
00:56:04,925 --> 00:56:08,375
As we move beyond the third sector

820
00:56:08,525 --> 00:56:11,825
we come to tennis courts, parks.

821
00:56:12,285 --> 00:56:16,015
Beyond that is the residential district, which consists of lakes

822
00:56:16,165 --> 00:56:20,285
waterfalls, all kinds of beautiful plants throughout the area.

823
00:56:20,435 --> 00:56:23,915
Each house is concealed by plants

824
00:56:24,065 --> 00:56:27,635
so you can't see another building. Some people prefer

825
00:56:27,825 --> 00:56:31,195
as in the next sector, to live in apartment houses.

826
00:56:31,635 --> 00:56:35,915
The apartments have drama groups, recreation, swimming pools

827
00:56:36,315 --> 00:56:39,845
discussion groups and so many other facilities.

828
00:56:39,995 --> 00:56:43,635
The disadvantage of living in a private home is you would have to go

829
00:56:43,785 --> 00:56:47,595
to the various places to access the same things.

830
00:56:48,605 --> 00:56:51,375
Instead of motor vehicles in the city

831
00:56:51,525 --> 00:56:55,895
all transportation is carried on by circular conveyors

832
00:56:56,045 --> 00:56:58,345
that we call transveyors.

833
00:56:58,504 --> 00:57:02,795
They move radially, circumferentially and vertically.

834
00:57:03,195 --> 00:57:07,535
They serve the function of elevators, buses, conveyors.

835
00:57:07,925 --> 00:57:11,055
If you wish to go to another city, you can take an elevator

836
00:57:11,205 --> 00:57:15,585
down beneath the central dome, which has Maglev trains, etc.

837
00:57:15,735 --> 00:57:17,705
that will transport you to the center

838
00:57:17,855 --> 00:57:21,075
of any other city or any other region.

839
00:57:22,555 --> 00:57:25,145
There will be no waste products, just as in nature

840
00:57:25,285 --> 00:57:27,525
there are no waste products. All materials

841
00:57:27,675 --> 00:57:30,675
that we would formerly called waste would be recycled

842
00:57:30,825 --> 00:57:34,195
and converted into new products.

843
00:57:36,195 --> 00:57:39,195
When the city hits a certain number of people

844
00:57:40,135 --> 00:57:43,565
we stop the development and let everything go back to nature

845
00:57:43,715 --> 00:57:46,715
between this and the next city.

846
00:57:50,985 --> 00:57:54,045
It doesn't mean that we can solve all the problems.

847
00:57:54,195 --> 00:57:57,655
We can just design and build a far better environment

848
00:57:57,805 --> 00:58:00,805
to advance all human beings.

849
00:58:08,525 --> 00:58:11,195
Not everybody will live in a dome.

850
00:58:11,325 --> 00:58:15,695
This is different types of architecture; this may be a vacation house.

851
00:58:15,845 --> 00:58:18,775
I don't know what people will choose to live in

852
00:58:18,925 --> 00:58:21,975
but that would be up to each individual.

853
00:58:22,405 --> 00:58:25,405
What we want to do is build cities in the sea.

854
00:58:27,195 --> 00:58:29,855
You pick the city you want to live in. Some of these cities

855
00:58:30,005 --> 00:58:33,795
are for ocean mining. The oceans have tungsten, manganese

856
00:58:33,945 --> 00:58:37,265
phosphorous; all kinds of chemical stuff we may need.

857
00:58:37,415 --> 00:58:39,625
They're made available to all people.

858
00:58:39,775 --> 00:58:42,575
You don't have to worry about being blind in the future.

859
00:58:42,715 --> 00:58:45,825
We design cities so you can hear an open door

860
00:58:45,975 --> 00:58:49,465
and you can sense a table, because you have built-in sensors.

861
00:58:49,615 --> 00:58:53,265
We work on making artificial methods for visual

862
00:58:53,415 --> 00:58:56,595
for everybody, because anybody can lose their eyesight.

863
00:58:56,815 --> 00:59:00,045
There's no more nickels and dimes for medical research.

864
00:59:00,195 --> 00:59:04,435
This is what the army of the future is all about.

865
00:59:08,625 --> 00:59:11,625
There's usually an alligator sleeping down here.

866
00:59:23,845 --> 00:59:27,045
(King) Are you betting that people will not declare war on each other, so that

867
00:59:27,205 --> 00:59:30,735
you can get at building all of this? -We don't have much choice.

868
00:59:30,885 --> 00:59:33,835
We're going to destroy each other, or we're going to make it.

869
00:59:33,975 --> 00:59:38,095
-This looks like some sort of submerged stadium with something...

870
00:59:38,245 --> 00:59:40,755
- We might build circular cities in the sea

871
00:59:40,895 --> 00:59:43,895
where the water is about 30-35 feet deep.

872
00:59:44,795 --> 00:59:48,205
Most of the apartment houses will open out into the sea.

873
00:59:49,305 --> 00:59:51,835
You can observe marine life and fish swimming by.

874
00:59:51,975 --> 00:59:54,545
There will be no zoos, no seaquariums.

875
00:59:54,685 --> 00:59:57,685
Everything will be observed in natural conditions.

876
00:59:58,265 --> 01:00:01,315
There will be boating, scuba diving, recreation, universities

877
01:00:01,465 --> 01:00:03,945
built in the sea.

878
01:00:05,465 --> 01:00:08,875
- Are these drawings all made by you? - Yes.

879
01:00:25,095 --> 01:00:27,345
(Fresco) This represents a blueprint

880
01:00:27,485 --> 01:00:30,465
of the basic structure of the city in the sea.

881
01:00:30,575 --> 01:00:34,315
There are helicopter landing areas on the upper section.

882
01:00:34,465 --> 01:00:37,735
There are cranes that travel around the entire upper portion

883
01:00:37,885 --> 01:00:42,015
of the structure. The legs are designed to move up and down

884
01:00:42,145 --> 01:00:45,645
to support the structure and rest on the sea bed.

885
01:00:49,065 --> 01:00:51,535
What are these cities in the sea for?

886
01:00:51,685 --> 01:00:54,485
Some of them represent hospitals

887
01:00:54,625 --> 01:00:57,925
that can be towed off the coast of Africa or India.

888
01:00:58,075 --> 01:01:00,845
Instead of sending building materials out there

889
01:01:00,995 --> 01:01:04,585
and building a hospital, then shipping the equipment out there.

890
01:01:04,735 --> 01:01:07,255
It's much easier to build a floating hospital

891
01:01:07,405 --> 01:01:10,615
tow it off the coast of Africa, use it

892
01:01:10,765 --> 01:01:13,205
and by the time the new hospitals are assembled there

893
01:01:13,355 --> 01:01:15,915
you can then move this to another region

894
01:01:16,065 --> 01:01:19,065
float it to another region.

895
01:01:20,435 --> 01:01:23,505
Most of the cities will be constructed in dry-docks

896
01:01:23,655 --> 01:01:26,655
by automated systems.

897
01:01:28,295 --> 01:01:30,825
After it's complete and the flood-locks are open

898
01:01:30,975 --> 01:01:36,325
and it fills with water and there are units that looks like tugboats

899
01:01:36,475 --> 01:01:41,335
that deliver the cities to their site where they will be located.

900
01:01:41,485 --> 01:01:44,965
Some will house as many as a million people;

901
01:01:45,115 --> 01:01:49,625
a series of cities in close proximity, joined together

902
01:01:49,775 --> 01:01:54,195
by transport systems, that is, tunnels either under the water

903
01:01:55,355 --> 01:01:58,355
or above-the-water bridges.

904
01:02:06,865 --> 01:02:09,075
This is an aerial view

905
01:02:09,215 --> 01:02:13,725
of one of the many variations of cities in the sea.

906
01:02:14,065 --> 01:02:17,275
The towers are used for residential occupation.

907
01:02:17,425 --> 01:02:19,605
The docks surrounding the cities

908
01:02:19,755 --> 01:02:24,165
are used for marine exploration and redevelopment.

909
01:02:24,315 --> 01:02:28,285
In other words, to restore the reefs, the damaged reefs.

910
01:02:28,435 --> 01:02:32,935
The unit in the center is used for hydroponic gardens;

911
01:02:33,085 --> 01:02:36,085
growing of food without soil.

912
01:02:42,955 --> 01:02:44,955
Many of the cities in the sea

913
01:02:45,095 --> 01:02:48,865
will have docking facilities for marine vehicles.

914
01:02:49,015 --> 01:02:51,815
That means it'll be like an underwater bus

915
01:02:51,965 --> 01:02:56,045
that would take people around to visit the different areas.

916
01:02:56,195 --> 01:02:58,965
You'll be able get a very good picture of the ocean

917
01:02:59,105 --> 01:03:04,405
and how we harness it and use it and preserve it and protect it

918
01:03:05,105 --> 01:03:08,795
so that future generations might enjoy the oceans, also.

919
01:03:12,265 --> 01:03:16,005
This projects above one of the cities under the sea

920
01:03:16,155 --> 01:03:21,195
with an observation platform and a landing platform on the upper deck.

921
01:03:22,375 --> 01:03:25,355
At the sea level there'll be a floating dock system

922
01:03:25,505 --> 01:03:29,385
that moves with the tide, up and down so boats can dock.

923
01:03:29,535 --> 01:03:33,245
Then you enter an elevator shaft, which goes to an airlock.

924
01:03:33,395 --> 01:03:37,395
It takes you to the bottom of the sea, or the sea bed.

925
01:03:37,655 --> 01:03:42,355
The sea bed is used for observation of reefs and marine life.

926
01:03:42,645 --> 01:03:46,265
Not only do they monitor the reefs, they restore the reefs

927
01:03:46,415 --> 01:03:49,665
and change them, rebuild them or redesign them.

928
01:03:49,815 --> 01:03:54,195
Some day we will be able to control the shape, configuration of reefs

929
01:03:54,455 --> 01:03:57,015
so they can support more marine life.

930
01:03:57,165 --> 01:03:59,645
I think humans can add to nature

931
01:03:59,935 --> 01:04:03,345
and improve it considerably. What will that mean?

932
01:04:03,495 --> 01:04:06,495
It'll mean a higher standard of living for all people.

933
01:04:20,035 --> 01:04:22,665
(Meadows) When he draws these buildings and designs

934
01:04:22,805 --> 01:04:27,035
he thinks about how they go together, how they're manufactured.

935
01:04:27,425 --> 01:04:30,995
Some of the drawings I have seen have gone back about 60 years

936
01:04:31,145 --> 01:04:33,805
and they're just beginning to talk about

937
01:04:33,955 --> 01:04:36,955
some of these things now as being a possibility.

938
01:04:37,245 --> 01:04:40,005
You know, in the past people would say: "You'd never be able

939
01:04:40,145 --> 01:04:42,965
to get to the moon, not in a thousand years!"

940
01:04:43,115 --> 01:04:46,205
And they'd look up the next day and they're going to the moon.

941
01:04:46,355 --> 01:04:48,855
You know, when I first met Jacque 25 years ago and he would talk

942
01:04:48,995 --> 01:04:52,765
to some people about certain inventions

943
01:04:53,005 --> 01:04:56,525
they'd say, "You won't see that... not in a thousand years!"

944
01:04:56,675 --> 01:05:01,675
And, ten years later, they'd come out with it on the cover of Popular Science.

945
01:05:06,505 --> 01:05:09,595
The whole basis of the technology is to maintain

946
01:05:09,745 --> 01:05:13,705
a high standard of living. Technology is not worth anything

947
01:05:13,855 --> 01:05:17,155
unless it improves people's lives.

948
01:05:17,305 --> 01:05:19,975
Today, people are afraid of science and technology

949
01:05:20,125 --> 01:05:22,795
because it's so abusive today in so many ways.

950
01:05:22,945 --> 01:05:25,175
But it's not science and it's not the technology

951
01:05:25,325 --> 01:05:29,335
we should be wary of, it's the abuse and the misuse of science.

952
01:05:29,485 --> 01:05:32,925
You can take a rocket and you can shoot it

953
01:05:33,075 --> 01:05:35,535
into space and explore outer space

954
01:05:35,685 --> 01:05:39,195
or you can take it and use it as a bomb and destroy another country.

955
01:05:39,335 --> 01:05:43,145
It's really the inanimate object

956
01:05:43,295 --> 01:05:46,795
really, is in our hands, and what we do with it.

957
01:05:47,265 --> 01:05:52,265
Science is really the ability to predict the next most probable.

958
01:05:52,515 --> 01:05:54,745
That's what the real meaning of science is:

959
01:05:54,895 --> 01:05:59,115
gaining the ability to predict the next most probable.

960
01:05:59,265 --> 01:06:02,745
When we talk about science, we're talking about a method

961
01:06:02,895 --> 01:06:06,675
of looking at a situation, a method of evaluation

962
01:06:06,825 --> 01:06:09,195
that differs from the opinionated system.

963
01:06:09,345 --> 01:06:12,075
"If you ask me, I'll tell you!"

964
01:06:12,215 --> 01:06:16,345
The scientific method has no special connection to truth.

965
01:06:16,495 --> 01:06:20,215
It really has a better way of looking at things

966
01:06:20,365 --> 01:06:22,365
than the earlier systems

967
01:06:22,485 --> 01:06:26,195
where everything was attributed to gods or demons.

968
01:06:27,195 --> 01:06:30,935
(Gazecki) This is where we get into applying the scientific method to society.

969
01:06:31,085 --> 01:06:34,695
-Yes. This is not in a book yet.

970
01:06:34,845 --> 01:06:36,955
The scientific method applied to society

971
01:06:37,105 --> 01:06:39,425
is something people don't think about much.

972
01:06:39,575 --> 01:06:42,895
But if you want to know about where the answers may lie

973
01:06:43,045 --> 01:06:46,535
it is in the application of the methods of science

974
01:06:46,685 --> 01:06:50,365
with human concern and environmental concern.

975
01:06:50,515 --> 01:06:53,045
The Future by Design refers to

976
01:06:53,195 --> 01:06:56,605
the application of the methods of science. Not scientists

977
01:06:56,755 --> 01:06:59,515
the methods of science to the social system.

978
01:06:59,665 --> 01:07:03,225
Naturally, even the methods of science undergo change.

979
01:07:03,375 --> 01:07:06,825
As they change, so would the future.

980
01:07:06,975 --> 01:07:10,605
If we use the scientific method throughout the world

981
01:07:10,755 --> 01:07:13,685
the probability of war drops to zero.

982
01:07:13,875 --> 01:07:17,195
The probability of human suffering disappears.

983
01:07:17,555 --> 01:07:20,195
Deprivation, poverty, crime...

984
01:07:20,435 --> 01:07:24,795
all those things tend to disappear, because there's no basis for it.

985
01:07:31,675 --> 01:07:34,945
(Meadows) Jacque spent a lot of time...before studying people

986
01:07:35,095 --> 01:07:38,335
he started studying how animals behave

987
01:07:38,485 --> 01:07:42,735
and how to change or predict the behavior of animals

988
01:07:42,865 --> 01:07:46,405
and came to the conclusion that it's really the environment

989
01:07:46,555 --> 01:07:50,805
that changes behavior and enables us to behave the way we do.

990
01:07:50,955 --> 01:07:56,325
We're not born with prejudice and bigotry and anger and greed.

991
01:07:56,645 --> 01:08:00,865
It's really generated and nurtured by the environment that we live in.

992
01:08:01,015 --> 01:08:04,045
That's why we feel that unless you change your environment

993
01:08:04,195 --> 01:08:08,295
and change the experiences, we'll get the same aberrant behavior

994
01:08:08,445 --> 01:08:11,995
within people, unless the environment is changed.

995
01:08:18,195 --> 01:08:20,925
(Fresco) Any culture in the world today

996
01:08:21,075 --> 01:08:23,675
tries to educate people

997
01:08:23,825 --> 01:08:27,365
so they'll serve a function in that particular culture.

998
01:08:27,515 --> 01:08:29,815
In other words, if you're brought up in a Nazi culture

999
01:08:29,965 --> 01:08:33,725
the flag waving and the swastika are the kinds of things they put forth.

1000
01:08:33,875 --> 01:08:36,375
If you're brought up in a primitive tribe

1001
01:08:36,525 --> 01:08:38,655
handling the javelin and the bow and arrow

1002
01:08:38,795 --> 01:08:41,145
will be the kind of thing that you will be exposed to.

1003
01:08:41,285 --> 01:08:43,835
People are conditioned to serve

1004
01:08:43,975 --> 01:08:47,285
the interests of an established culture.

1005
01:08:47,435 --> 01:08:51,765
Who does that to us? The owners of the institutions:

1006
01:08:51,915 --> 01:08:55,095
The establishment. They give us a value system

1007
01:08:55,235 --> 01:08:57,845
that would support existing structures

1008
01:08:58,005 --> 01:09:02,845
whether it be religious, non-religious, industrial, military...

1009
01:09:02,995 --> 01:09:05,975
When children say, you know, "Daddy, what's the greatest country in the world?"

1010
01:09:06,125 --> 01:09:08,475
"Of course our country is the greatest country in the world."

1011
01:09:08,705 --> 01:09:11,675
"Which god is the right god, Daddy?" "Our god.

1012
01:09:11,815 --> 01:09:13,825
All the other gods are false gods."

1013
01:09:13,975 --> 01:09:18,305
Picture this: a Roman family taking its kids to see the Christians

1014
01:09:18,455 --> 01:09:21,085
being fed to the lions. And the kids are watching

1015
01:09:21,235 --> 01:09:24,355
"Dad, can we come next week to see Christians being fed to lions?"

1016
01:09:24,525 --> 01:09:28,025
Are these kids sick? No! Their value system is distorted.

1017
01:09:28,915 --> 01:09:31,895
So, I'm strictly concerned with the environment

1018
01:09:32,095 --> 01:09:34,475
that people are reared in, raised in.

1019
01:09:34,625 --> 01:09:38,895
And if that environment is altered, so will behavior be altered.

1020
01:09:39,285 --> 01:09:43,145
You reorient the environment and that in turn reorients people.

1021
01:09:43,515 --> 01:09:47,475
But if you reorient people without

1022
01:09:47,635 --> 01:09:50,495
touching the environment, it'll slip back.

1023
01:09:50,735 --> 01:09:55,075
So, when you try to think about the future, remember this:

1024
01:09:55,225 --> 01:09:57,915
the process with which you think about things

1025
01:09:58,065 --> 01:10:01,655
is based upon indoctrination, what you're given by your society.

1026
01:10:01,805 --> 01:10:04,595
Your range of thought is limited

1027
01:10:04,735 --> 01:10:07,625
by the dominant values of your society.

1028
01:10:07,825 --> 01:10:12,845
Learning to be flexible in values takes a long time.

1029
01:10:13,375 --> 01:10:16,195
In talking to kids, when I was very young

1030
01:10:16,335 --> 01:10:20,445
I had to be very patient with them if I were to make any progress.

1031
01:10:20,595 --> 01:10:22,855
I talked about the concept of god:

1032
01:10:23,005 --> 01:10:26,215
your concept of god, my concept of god, and his concept of god.

1033
01:10:26,365 --> 01:10:29,595
So different... I wonder what God is really like.

1034
01:10:29,745 --> 01:10:32,545
Or, if there is a god, for that matter.

1035
01:10:32,695 --> 01:10:36,475
And why would god permit war and disease if he's all-loving?

1036
01:10:36,625 --> 01:10:39,245
It didn't make sense to me...too many clashes.

1037
01:10:39,395 --> 01:10:41,815
I questioned that.

1038
01:10:41,965 --> 01:10:44,335
Of course, I felt a little uncomfortable

1039
01:10:44,485 --> 01:10:47,875
during questioning the concept of god.

1040
01:10:48,025 --> 01:10:51,575
But then, reading about the history and evolution

1041
01:10:51,725 --> 01:10:54,195
of gods. There were many different gods:

1042
01:10:54,335 --> 01:10:56,595
the god of war, the god of peace, the god of love...

1043
01:10:56,745 --> 01:10:59,525
Which was more like the people that invented them.

1044
01:10:59,675 --> 01:11:03,925
They behaved, they got angry, they made sacrifices

1045
01:11:04,075 --> 01:11:07,535
they created floods when they didn't like the way things were going.

1046
01:11:07,685 --> 01:11:11,806
And this did not come through as superior intelligence.

1047
01:11:12,155 --> 01:11:15,475
Primitive people, going back in time, when they saw lightning

1048
01:11:15,625 --> 01:11:20,755
they thought that the deity was angry. Why else would it not occur?

1049
01:11:20,905 --> 01:11:24,285
When a hurricane swept the land, they got rid of certain people

1050
01:11:24,435 --> 01:11:27,795
in their tribe as a sacrifice, hoping that the gods

1051
01:11:27,945 --> 01:11:30,045
would not produce a second hurricane.

1052
01:11:30,195 --> 01:11:32,635
However, if it did occur again

1053
01:11:32,785 --> 01:11:34,995
then they sacrificed some of the younger people.

1054
01:11:35,145 --> 01:11:37,535
Rarely would the chief sacrifice himself

1055
01:11:37,685 --> 01:11:41,045
but he's always got a line of people, ready to sacrifice.

1056
01:11:41,195 --> 01:11:44,125
So, you have that problem with human beings.

1057
01:11:44,275 --> 01:11:47,175
Anything that occurs beyond their comprehension

1058
01:11:47,325 --> 01:11:49,515
they have to invent an excuse for.

1059
01:11:49,665 --> 01:11:52,545
They have to create gods and demons

1060
01:11:52,795 --> 01:11:55,345
to account for things, because people come

1061
01:11:55,495 --> 01:11:57,625
to the leadership of that community.

1062
01:11:57,775 --> 01:11:59,955
No matter how primitive the tribe, they say:

1063
01:12:00,105 --> 01:12:03,755
"How come bad wind blow people off island?"

1064
01:12:03,905 --> 01:12:06,725
The guy says "You not behave good!

1065
01:12:06,875 --> 01:12:10,195
You not make not enough contribution to volcano!

1066
01:12:10,365 --> 01:12:14,325
Throw your brother-in-law into volcano, maybe it doesn't erupt then."

1067
01:12:14,475 --> 01:12:16,775
So, if you throw your brother-in-law into the volcano

1068
01:12:16,925 --> 01:12:19,505
and it still erupts, you have to throw your sister-in-law in.

1069
01:12:19,655 --> 01:12:23,005
So you get metaphysics. You get religion.

1070
01:12:23,155 --> 01:12:25,595
You get superstition "Knock wood".

1071
01:12:25,745 --> 01:12:28,155
Or you wear a rabbit's foot. Just remember

1072
01:12:28,305 --> 01:12:32,045
that the rabbit had four of them; didn't do him any good.

1073
01:12:32,285 --> 01:12:35,305
So, on down the line, superstition prevails

1074
01:12:35,455 --> 01:12:38,215
wherever ignorance prevails.

1075
01:12:38,355 --> 01:12:41,375
Myth is a way of saying to the little guy

1076
01:12:41,525 --> 01:12:44,245
working out there in the field when he says

1077
01:12:44,395 --> 01:12:47,925
"What does all this amount to? I never seem to be getting anywhere."

1078
01:12:49,005 --> 01:12:52,755
"When you kick the bucket everything is there for you.

1079
01:12:53,065 --> 01:12:55,455
If you don't get it in this life you'll get it in the next

1080
01:12:55,595 --> 01:12:57,415
if you remain good."

1081
01:12:57,555 --> 01:13:00,725
The amount of superstition that a culture can absorb

1082
01:13:00,875 --> 01:13:05,635
would be directly proportionate to the amount of information people have.

1083
01:13:05,785 --> 01:13:09,195
So, in the future, with adequate supply of information

1084
01:13:09,475 --> 01:13:12,225
more than that which is given today

1085
01:13:12,365 --> 01:13:14,645
considerably more, you don't have

1086
01:13:14,845 --> 01:13:18,765
"knock wood. Today's my lucky day. When your number's up, it's up."

1087
01:13:18,905 --> 01:13:21,705
All that will disappear in the future.

1088
01:13:21,865 --> 01:13:24,855
I look at this as everything he's doing

1089
01:13:25,005 --> 01:13:28,205
as being the utmost in spirituality.

1090
01:13:28,355 --> 01:13:32,675
Instead of looking for a better world later after you die,

1091
01:13:32,815 --> 01:13:36,095
it's really building the types of things that all religious teachings

1092
01:13:36,245 --> 01:13:38,785
talk about here on Earth.

1093
01:13:38,935 --> 01:13:41,105
We don't have to wait until we die for that.

1094
01:13:41,255 --> 01:13:43,415
We can confront our problems today and not wait

1095
01:13:43,565 --> 01:13:47,935
for the Messiah to come with the white robe and change things

1096
01:13:48,075 --> 01:13:50,595
or not wait until we all go to heaven at a certain time

1097
01:13:50,745 --> 01:13:53,165
or those believers that go to heaven at a certain time.

1098
01:13:53,315 --> 01:13:55,395
We can deal with the problems today.

1099
01:13:55,545 --> 01:13:58,295
For instance, in a religion

1100
01:13:59,445 --> 01:14:01,735
they put things on the will of god.

1101
01:14:01,875 --> 01:14:05,395
If there's an accident it's the will of god.

1102
01:14:05,545 --> 01:14:09,475
And it stops you from thinking. It stops you from being innovative.

1103
01:14:09,625 --> 01:14:12,995
It stops you from thinking about "Well, how do we redesign

1104
01:14:13,145 --> 01:14:16,955
the transportation system so we don't have those problems anymore?"

1105
01:14:17,095 --> 01:14:19,605
So, he's worked with priests, and he's worked with religious people

1106
01:14:19,745 --> 01:14:23,385
and kind of expanded their horizons a bit so they can be more creative.

1107
01:14:23,525 --> 01:14:27,885
They look at the environment that shapes people's behavior

1108
01:14:28,025 --> 01:14:30,445
and they don't call them "good" or "bad" anymore, they think about

1109
01:14:30,585 --> 01:14:33,005
shaping the environment

1110
01:14:33,155 --> 01:14:35,815
to get more constructive behavior.

1111
01:14:38,495 --> 01:14:41,355
(Fresco) If you were to ask me to redesign the world

1112
01:14:41,505 --> 01:14:44,665
and the way people live. First thing I would have to do

1113
01:14:44,815 --> 01:14:47,915
is to conduct a survey to find what we have

1114
01:14:48,065 --> 01:14:50,175
how much water we have

1115
01:14:50,325 --> 01:14:52,625
how much people we have, how much arable land area.

1116
01:14:52,765 --> 01:14:57,335
After I know that, then I can base the parameters of design

1117
01:14:57,475 --> 01:14:59,235
on what we have.

1118
01:14:59,435 --> 01:15:03,925
What you really need is an understanding of the Earth's resources

1119
01:15:04,085 --> 01:15:08,855
by agronomists, geologists, geophysicists; people who study the Earth.

1120
01:15:09,005 --> 01:15:12,195
They don't give you their opinion. They say

1121
01:15:12,345 --> 01:15:14,855
"There's more life in the Antarctic." That's not an opinion.

1122
01:15:15,005 --> 01:15:18,925
That's a finding. So, in the future, no more opinions.

1123
01:15:19,075 --> 01:15:21,235
"Do you have information in this area?" "No, I don't."

1124
01:15:21,385 --> 01:15:23,215
"Good! Here's where you might get it."

1125
01:15:23,365 --> 01:15:26,755
Or "Here's how you might go about finding out."

1126
01:15:26,925 --> 01:15:30,274
So I'm saying, "All people need clean air

1127
01:15:30,415 --> 01:15:32,685
clean water, arable land

1128
01:15:32,825 --> 01:15:35,315
and a good relationship of language."

1129
01:15:35,475 --> 01:15:39,395
So, I'm not superimposing Fresco's concepts.

1130
01:15:39,765 --> 01:15:43,195
I'm using the Earth as the measure.

1131
01:15:43,485 --> 01:15:46,445
In other words, we have to live in accordance

1132
01:15:46,595 --> 01:15:48,945
with the carrying capacity of the Earth.

1133
01:15:49,095 --> 01:15:52,425
Does that make sense? - Yes, sir, it does. I keep wondering

1134
01:15:52,575 --> 01:15:56,445
about how drastic a social change this is

1135
01:15:56,595 --> 01:16:00,345
and how totally different our world would be

1136
01:16:00,495 --> 01:16:02,775
and, yeah, how do you get - from here to there?

1137
01:16:02,915 --> 01:16:05,585
- people to accept it, yeah. - Okay, here's how we do it.

1138
01:16:05,725 --> 01:16:08,385
Eventually, all decision-making

1139
01:16:08,535 --> 01:16:12,365
will be transferred to machines. First, people say

1140
01:16:12,515 --> 01:16:16,045
"Well, now, I don't know that I'd like machines making decisions."

1141
01:16:16,195 --> 01:16:19,145
First of all, that's what a scale does. If you go to a butcher shop

1142
01:16:19,305 --> 01:16:21,605
the butcher says "The chicken weighs six pounds."

1143
01:16:21,745 --> 01:16:25,325
Since you're buying it, you say: "that doesn't look like six pounds to me!"

1144
01:16:25,475 --> 01:16:28,565
So you grab it and say "I think it weighs about four" because you're tense

1145
01:16:28,715 --> 01:16:31,325
to think to weigh less. Then the scale came in

1146
01:16:31,475 --> 01:16:34,225
and we assigned decision making to the scale.

1147
01:16:34,365 --> 01:16:36,765
Is that right? - Yes, sir. - So, so do pilots.

1148
01:16:36,915 --> 01:16:39,755
When they fly, "I think I'm a mile and a half high."

1149
01:16:39,905 --> 01:16:41,835
They look at an instrument, and it tells them they're

1150
01:16:41,985 --> 01:16:45,195
4,203 feet off the ground.

1151
01:16:45,345 --> 01:16:49,305
So, that is decision made by machine

1152
01:16:49,455 --> 01:16:53,455
because the decision-making by the machine is far more accurate.

1153
01:16:53,715 --> 01:16:55,925
Now, the question normal people ask is

1154
01:16:56,085 --> 01:16:59,005
"Yes, but can machine be smarter than the designer?"

1155
01:16:59,155 --> 01:17:01,875
Well, I know a little guy that designed a machine

1156
01:17:02,015 --> 01:17:05,665
to pick up a freight train and empty it. Now, he can't do that.

1157
01:17:05,815 --> 01:17:08,475
Machines are always faster than the designer.

1158
01:17:08,625 --> 01:17:11,295
You ever see a coke bottle machine move on the line?

1159
01:17:11,445 --> 01:17:14,255
The designer, he can't move those bottles.

1160
01:17:14,405 --> 01:17:17,825
What is happening in our societies? We are automating

1161
01:17:17,975 --> 01:17:21,605
more and more decision-making and assigning it to machines.

1162
01:17:21,755 --> 01:17:25,325
Picture a department of agriculture as a setup of computers

1163
01:17:25,475 --> 01:17:29,095
with electrical wiring into the soil.

1164
01:17:29,245 --> 01:17:33,095
So, if the water table drops, that pumps water out there.

1165
01:17:33,245 --> 01:17:36,315
If the nutrients change it pumps nutrients.  You don't need a guy

1166
01:17:36,465 --> 01:17:41,085
out there saying "Mr. President, we have a drought out here!"

1167
01:17:41,225 --> 01:17:43,465
And the President says "How bad is it?"

1168
01:17:43,615 --> 01:17:46,385
"Well, there are 5,000 homeless, and in the next three days

1169
01:17:46,525 --> 01:17:49,495
there'll be 15,000 homeless."

1170
01:17:49,665 --> 01:17:53,205
So, the President says, "Hmm." So he flies over

1171
01:17:53,465 --> 01:17:57,305
and he says "Yes, you do have a drought." So what?

1172
01:17:57,525 --> 01:18:00,385
When you connect up the country, all the computers

1173
01:18:00,535 --> 01:18:03,195
to production, distribution, agriculture

1174
01:18:03,345 --> 01:18:05,575
you have a nervous system

1175
01:18:05,725 --> 01:18:08,605
which maintains dynamic equilibrium

1176
01:18:08,755 --> 01:18:13,205
in production and distribution of goods and services, without money.

1177
01:18:13,815 --> 01:18:16,155
The government is right above your head there

1178
01:18:16,305 --> 01:18:18,905
if you can turn around to see it. It looks like the globe.

1179
01:18:19,045 --> 01:18:23,525
That globe there makes all the decisions, because it's connected!

1180
01:18:23,685 --> 01:18:27,875
We have satellites around the Earth that project a hologram

1181
01:18:28,255 --> 01:18:30,165
a virtual image of the Earth.

1182
01:18:30,305 --> 01:18:33,325
So you're looking at the real Earth, in real time.

1183
01:18:33,485 --> 01:18:36,765
So you walk over to the image screens and you talk. You say

1184
01:18:36,915 --> 01:18:39,785
"How many planes are in the air at this instant?"

1185
01:18:39,935 --> 01:18:45,435
The computer will hit a laser spot all over the world and tell you: "7320".

1186
01:18:45,585 --> 01:18:48,125
Every plane in the air, every hurricane

1187
01:18:48,275 --> 01:18:51,285
all the conditions all over the Earth... plant diseases...

1188
01:18:51,435 --> 01:18:53,375
No human can do that.

1189
01:18:53,525 --> 01:18:56,635
So we don't need people in government.  We need electronics

1190
01:18:56,785 --> 01:19:00,095
in the field, production, distribution, weather...

1191
01:19:00,245 --> 01:19:03,655
So we can look, come at home and find out anything we want to know

1192
01:19:03,815 --> 01:19:08,198
without opinions based on folk-say, or folksy ways.

1193
01:19:09,675 --> 01:19:12,965
(Gazecki) The Future by Design is a self-regulated society

1194
01:19:13,115 --> 01:19:16,695
governed by a cybernated system of supply and demand.

1195
01:19:17,385 --> 01:19:19,675
Political systems are replaced by tabulating

1196
01:19:19,825 --> 01:19:22,825
the input of information from the general population

1197
01:19:22,975 --> 01:19:25,975
and delivering goods and services accordingly.

1198
01:19:26,415 --> 01:19:28,465
The economic system is similarly based

1199
01:19:28,615 --> 01:19:31,385
upon the use of all available resources

1200
01:19:31,535 --> 01:19:34,435
in meeting the needs of the entire culture.

1201
01:19:34,935 --> 01:19:37,405
(Meadows) When there's a depression or a dip in the economy

1202
01:19:37,555 --> 01:19:40,165
and a lot of people don't have money to buy things

1203
01:19:40,315 --> 01:19:44,005
there are still goods out there.  There's still the ability to produce them.

1204
01:19:44,155 --> 01:19:46,655
There's still the resources, there's the farms

1205
01:19:46,805 --> 01:19:48,845
and people want to work and make things

1206
01:19:48,995 --> 01:19:51,715
but they don't have the money, they can't buy things.

1207
01:19:51,865 --> 01:19:54,745
So there's something terribly wrong out there, we have

1208
01:19:54,895 --> 01:19:58,905
a great deal of the Earth's population starving and suffering

1209
01:19:59,045 --> 01:20:02,725
and the resources are there. Our ability to produce is there.

1210
01:20:02,875 --> 01:20:06,555
Our ingenuity is there. Yet, some people have a lot

1211
01:20:06,705 --> 01:20:08,845
and others don't have anything.

1212
01:20:09,145 --> 01:20:12,625
Today, that's really shameful with our technology.

1213
01:20:12,775 --> 01:20:16,435
It's really very, very abusive and absurd

1214
01:20:16,585 --> 01:20:19,305
because we have all the technology today

1215
01:20:19,455 --> 01:20:22,875
to produce abundance all over the world for everyone.

1216
01:20:23,525 --> 01:20:27,715
People always ask, "How much will it cost to put up these new cities?"

1217
01:20:27,865 --> 01:20:30,035
Do we have the resources to do it?

1218
01:20:30,175 --> 01:20:32,195
That's the question, not, "How much does it cost?"

1219
01:20:32,335 --> 01:20:35,865
That's the old question during a monetary system.

1220
01:20:36,015 --> 01:20:39,405
Money is an invention of convenience

1221
01:20:39,555 --> 01:20:42,085
for purchasing goods and services

1222
01:20:42,235 --> 01:20:44,985
in a scarcity environment. If there's a scarcity

1223
01:20:45,135 --> 01:20:49,575
say, of water, it is prized, and its price is high.

1224
01:20:49,725 --> 01:20:53,005
If we find an abundant suddenly the earth opens up

1225
01:20:53,155 --> 01:20:57,285
and an abundant supply of fresh water fills every ravine

1226
01:20:57,435 --> 01:20:59,355
then nobody cares.

1227
01:20:59,495 --> 01:21:02,825
There's only a policeman in front of something

1228
01:21:02,975 --> 01:21:05,015
that people have need for

1229
01:21:05,175 --> 01:21:08,715
and don't have access to, so you put a guard there.

1230
01:21:08,865 --> 01:21:11,915
But if lemon trees or orange trees and apple trees

1231
01:21:12,065 --> 01:21:15,225
grew all over the place, you couldn't sell it.

1232
01:21:15,375 --> 01:21:20,555
Imagine, if you will, if you can, an island of 10,000 people

1233
01:21:21,535 --> 01:21:24,735
with $10 billion on the island available.

1234
01:21:24,885 --> 01:21:28,745
No resources, no arable land, no water

1235
01:21:28,895 --> 01:21:32,045
no fish, you have nothing.

1236
01:21:32,195 --> 01:21:35,045
So what is the real value in the future?

1237
01:21:35,185 --> 01:21:37,285
Resources.

1238
01:21:37,455 --> 01:21:42,715
Now, in a non-monetary based society, a resource-based society

1239
01:21:42,865 --> 01:21:46,545
people have access to anything that they need

1240
01:21:46,695 --> 01:21:48,815
somewhat like the public library.

1241
01:21:48,965 --> 01:21:53,485
They can go down and access a camera, or a bicycle, or a wristwatch.

1242
01:21:53,635 --> 01:21:58,585
Anything that they need is available, without a price tag.

1243
01:21:58,735 --> 01:22:02,675
That would mean we must achieve a level of production

1244
01:22:02,825 --> 01:22:07,095
that's so high that scarcity no longer exists.

1245
01:22:07,245 --> 01:22:09,605
Many people wonder what would drive people

1246
01:22:09,755 --> 01:22:12,435
if they have access to all their needs.

1247
01:22:12,585 --> 01:22:16,165
What would happen to incentive? What will motivate people?

1248
01:22:16,315 --> 01:22:19,455
Or, something gained, what's the gain?

1249
01:22:19,605 --> 01:22:22,545
Although the gain is that materials are available

1250
01:22:22,695 --> 01:22:27,295
what will motivate them on to do better than what they have?

1251
01:22:27,615 --> 01:22:31,025
Need. We will always lack.

1252
01:22:31,485 --> 01:22:34,165
And the fact that we will always lack meaning

1253
01:22:34,315 --> 01:22:36,275
that we cannot achieve perfection

1254
01:22:36,435 --> 01:22:40,315
we cannot achieve truly dynamic equilibrium

1255
01:22:40,465 --> 01:22:44,195
we will always be in some form of disequilibrium.

1256
01:22:44,345 --> 01:22:48,515
With the elimination of scarcity the essential incentives change

1257
01:22:48,665 --> 01:22:51,385
toward problem solving, in general.

1258
01:22:52,025 --> 01:22:57,045
When nations or groups of people do not have access to resources

1259
01:22:57,195 --> 01:23:00,015
their behavior is difficult to manage.

1260
01:23:00,165 --> 01:23:04,725
It becomes aberrant, they lose their mental equilibrium

1261
01:23:04,875 --> 01:23:07,975
they cannot arrive at appropriate conclusions.

1262
01:23:08,115 --> 01:23:10,795
Once people are free, mentally

1263
01:23:10,945 --> 01:23:14,885
of debt, obligation, servitude

1264
01:23:15,035 --> 01:23:17,725
then they can seek new horizons

1265
01:23:17,875 --> 01:23:21,435
that they've never even dreamt possible before.

1266
01:23:25,745 --> 01:23:29,415
(Gazecki) The core mechanism of democratic process in the Future by Design

1267
01:23:29,565 --> 01:23:32,625
is the use of public exhibition halls.

1268
01:23:32,995 --> 01:23:36,515
With the exhibition hall, everyone has the opportunity to participate

1269
01:23:36,665 --> 01:23:40,965
in establishing the priorities with which the society is governed.

1270
01:23:43,045 --> 01:23:47,485
-So, just like a world fair, to show you what's new, what is available

1271
01:23:47,635 --> 01:23:50,815
you look around and say, "I'd like one of those"

1272
01:23:50,965 --> 01:23:54,925
or, "I can use that sort of thing in my kitchen." Whatever it is.

1273
01:23:55,075 --> 01:23:58,375
And then they always invite comment, or something new comes up

1274
01:23:58,525 --> 01:24:01,055
"What do you think about it? Do you feel it's efficient?

1275
01:24:01,205 --> 01:24:05,025
Do you feel there's shortcomings? Enter into your computer

1276
01:24:05,175 --> 01:24:10,615
your point of view regarding this, so you have a built-in democracy.

1277
01:24:10,765 --> 01:24:15,095
You have a participatory culture where all people participate

1278
01:24:15,245 --> 01:24:18,045
and that is in a constant process, so that people

1279
01:24:18,205 --> 01:24:21,375
will know up to the minute what is coming out

1280
01:24:21,525 --> 01:24:25,205
what exists, what is available, what is not available.

1281
01:24:25,345 --> 01:24:29,515
In other words, there'll be many bulletins and many publications

1282
01:24:29,665 --> 01:24:32,205
and visualizations of what is needed.

1283
01:24:32,355 --> 01:24:35,075
So, all the world's people will be informed constantly

1284
01:24:35,225 --> 01:24:37,925
of what we don't know, what is needed badly

1285
01:24:38,075 --> 01:24:41,265
and asking for suggestions and papers

1286
01:24:41,415 --> 01:24:44,165
and ideas from everybody.

1287
01:24:46,935 --> 01:24:49,815
I just want to say this to you, that all the marvels

1288
01:24:49,965 --> 01:24:53,385
and wonders of technology can amount to nothing

1289
01:24:53,535 --> 01:24:57,235
unless it elevates humans to their highest potential.

1290
01:24:57,385 --> 01:25:01,195
This is the aim of the Future by Design.

1291
01:25:18,285 --> 01:25:23,355
(Meadows) Jacque continues to invent everyday, to invent, to write, to work.

1292
01:25:23,885 --> 01:25:28,395
He has a zest for life that keeps him going and keeps him working.

1293
01:25:28,545 --> 01:25:31,495
And he's interested in things. He's interested in

1294
01:25:31,645 --> 01:25:34,245
what happens out there and how this will play out

1295
01:25:34,395 --> 01:25:37,575
and how it'll turn out, while very much wanting

1296
01:25:37,725 --> 01:25:42,385
to introduce this direction to the world. So that's his prime focus.

1297
01:25:42,545 --> 01:25:46,065
And he does that in every way he can by actually showing

1298
01:25:46,215 --> 01:25:48,805
it's not enough to just tell what the future will be like, but just

1299
01:25:48,955 --> 01:25:51,065
to show what people are missing.

1300
01:25:51,215 --> 01:25:53,865
He keeps coming up with new ideas, new inventions

1301
01:25:54,005 --> 01:25:56,695
new designs, improves what he has

1302
01:25:56,845 --> 01:26:00,575
represents them better, makes more models, makes more videos.

1303
01:26:00,725 --> 01:26:04,325
He's relentless at trying to get these ideas out.

1304
01:26:04,475 --> 01:26:09,555
I think he fears where society is now. It's not acceptable to him.

1305
01:26:09,705 --> 01:26:14,455
But, instead of just complaining, he wants to propose an alternative.

1306
01:26:14,605 --> 01:26:17,255
When people say "Are you trying to build a perfect society?"

1307
01:26:17,405 --> 01:26:21,215
I have no notions of a perfect society. I don't know what that means.

1308
01:26:21,365 --> 01:26:24,245
I know we can do much better than what we've got.

1309
01:26:24,395 --> 01:26:25,795
I'm no Utopian.

1310
01:26:25,945 --> 01:26:27,995
I'm not a humanist who would like to see

1311
01:26:28,135 --> 01:26:30,625
everybody living in warmth and harmony.

1312
01:26:30,775 --> 01:26:33,435
I know that, if we don't live that way, we'll kill each other

1313
01:26:33,575 --> 01:26:37,835
and destroy the Earth. We're a crude form of life right now

1314
01:26:38,155 --> 01:26:41,415
in the evolutionary stages. Our civilization...

1315
01:26:41,565 --> 01:26:44,115
really we're not even civilized yet.

1316
01:26:44,265 --> 01:26:46,905
So, after the world joins together

1317
01:26:47,055 --> 01:26:51,305
and we are through with military systems, prisons, torture

1318
01:26:51,455 --> 01:26:55,385
hunger, poverty, deprivation. When that is gone

1319
01:26:55,535 --> 01:26:58,735
that'll be the beginning of the civilized world.

1320
01:26:58,885 --> 01:27:01,045
We are not there yet.