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This program is brought to you by the University of Michigan.

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For more information visit www.umich.edu

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Born on March 3rd 1916, Jacque Fresco has been called many things:

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designer, architect, inventor, author, and futurist.

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His sensibilities stem from firsthand experience of the Great Depression

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a detailed understanding of the effects of a scarcity-based economy

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and the conflicts it produces.

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Primarily self-taught, Jacque advocates for a society that pursues

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science and technology as a means of continually educating itself

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believing that such a society neither wants nor needs to be controlled.

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Proclaimed a visionary, Jacque offers bold and complete reformation

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of the world's social constructs to promise a brighter tomorrow

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if we can unite as humans in its pursuit today.

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Jacque Fresco represents not only the sincerest belief

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of artists and designers to affect positive change in a society

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but a pure conviction, if not responsibility

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to absolve failing systems.

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In a 1974 interview with Larry King

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Jacque Fresco can best be quoted with the following:

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"There are no Negro problems or Polish problems

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or Jewish problems or Greek problems or women's problems.

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There are only human problems."

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Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce Jacque Fresco.

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[Applause]

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Thank you Eric.

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I don't know if anybody's here, but can you hear me back there?

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[Yes!]

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OK. I want to tell you little bit about this film we're about to see.

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We were invited to Saudi Arabia to present some of our concepts.

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They wanted us to design a new city

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[and] a theme park in Saudi Arabia.

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We made this film only to show them

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conceptual ideas of what the future can be

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not what it will be. We don't know

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only what it can be.

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At this time, I'm going to present that film

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so you've got some idea of what it is that we do at the Venus Project.

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Thank you for your time.

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[Applause]

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[uplifting score with trumpets]♫

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A nation without a vision of what the future can be

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is bound to repeat past errors over and over again.

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This brief video will outline a vision designed to avoid old mistakes.

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A vision of efficiency, sustainability and intelligent planning

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can lead us into a marvelous new world of unlimited human potential.

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Designing the Future

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This vision could be a showcase

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of what the world can be in our cybernated age.

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Science and technology could be used for human betterment

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and the restoration and protection of the environment

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serving as an example of the intelligent application

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of a Systems Approach.

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While some people advocate the restoration

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of existing, worn-out cities

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these efforts fall short of the potentials of modern technology.

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Repairing outmoded cities results in

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higher costs of operation and maintenance.

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It is actually less expensive in the long run

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to build newer cities from the ground up

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than to restore and maintain old ones.

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A total city system approach requires overall planning

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to attain a higher standard of living for all the city's occupants.

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The circular arrangement efficiently permits the most sophisticated use

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of available resources and construction techniques

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with a minimum expenditure of energy.

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This can make available to all people, the most advanced amenities

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that modern science and technology can provide.

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It could be the hub and learning center

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where people from all over the world visit

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and hopefully emulate this design approach in other parts of the world.

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Design considerations for these new cities

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include its overall functioning, its ease of assembly

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the reduction of maintenance, efficient transportation

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and its simplicity and durability.

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This will include the flexibility to permit ongoing and later changes.

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The city would function as an evolving, integrated organism

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rather than a static structure.

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This systems approach envisions assembling entire cities

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by standardizing basic, structural elements

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which are prefabricated in automated plants

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and assembled on site.

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Many of these buildings would be comprised of standard units

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that can be arranged to meet many different requirements.

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This approach means that these cities can be extremely cost-efficient

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because only one sector needs to be designed

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which can be duplicated repeatedly for the completion of an entire city.

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Our approach makes it possible to sell

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or license these building methods and designs

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as totally integrated city systems anywhere in the world.

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The outer perimeter will be part of the recreational area

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with golf courses, hiking and biking trails

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and opportunities for water sports.

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Inside this area, a waterway surrounds an agricultural belt

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with indoor and outdoor agriculture.

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Continuing toward the city center

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eight green sectors provide clean, renewable resources of energy

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using wind, solar and heat concentrators.

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Waste-recycling and other services are located beneath the city.

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The plan utilizes the best of clean technology

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in harmony with the surrounding environment.

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The residential district features beautiful landscaping

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with lakes and winding streams.

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A wide range of creative, innovative apartment buildings and

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individual unique homes will provide many options for the occupants.

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New and innovative methods of fast mass-construction

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for housing and building systems will inject composite materials

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into a mold and then extrude the form upward.

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can be produced as continuous extrusions

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which are then separated into individual units.

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Cranes transport these prefabricated dwellings to site locations.

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They are then lifted and inserted into a support structure.

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The apartments are light-weight and high-strength.

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All of the dwellings are designed as self-contained residences.

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The outer surface of these efficient structures

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serve as photovoltaic generators

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converting solar radiation directly into electricity

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for heating, cooling and other needs.

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The thermocouple effect will also be used for generating electricity.

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The wide range of individual homes are prefabricated

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fire-resistant, and impervious to weather.

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With this type of construction there would be little or no damage

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from floods, earthquakes or hurricanes.

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Their thin-shell construction can be mass-produced

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efficiently and economically.

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New energy efficient systems can be installed

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to supply enough power to operate the entire household.

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Adjacent to the residential district

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are planning, science and research centers.

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Eight domes surrounding the central dome, house art, music

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exhibition, entertainment and conference centers.

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Lovely parks, lakes, streams and waterfalls

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are located throughout the entire city.

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The central dome or theme center contains schools, healthcare

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shopping, communications networking and child care.

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which move people by transveyors

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horizontally, vertically and radially, anywhere in the city.

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The central dome will eventually house a cybernated complex

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which serves as the brain and nervous system of the entire city.

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using satellite communication systems

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which display information on weather, agriculture, transportation

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and the operation of the whole city.

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This cybernated system will use environmental sensors

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to help maintain a balanced-load economy

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which avoids overruns and shortages.

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electronic probes monitor and maintain the soil conditions

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water table, nutrients and more.

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This method of electronic feedback can be applied

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trillions of bits of information per second

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they are vital for arriving at correct decisions

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for the management of these innovative cities.

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Some of the cities may be total enclosure systems

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which are self-sufficient. These massive structures would contain

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residences, parks, recreation, entertainment

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health care, educational facilities and more.

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Everything built in these cities would be

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as near to a self-contained system as conditions allow.

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In these total enclosure arrangements, the skyscraper assures

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that more land is available for parks and wilderness preserves

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while at the same time eliminating urban sprawl.

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Wherever possible, geothermal energy can be harnessed.

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Geothermal power offers the possibility

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of an abundant source of clean energy.

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This source alone could provide enough energy for the next 1000 years.

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National transportation systems would include

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a network of waterways and canals.

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by diverting flood waters to storage basins.

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fish farms and recreation.

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using a method of evaporative condensation.

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transportation of passengers and freight

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across the Sahara Desert to all the Arab nations

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free of the effects of sandstorms.

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with ventilators every 1000 feet.

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and transported to all the Arab nations.

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capable of processing raw materials into finished products

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while in route to their destinations.

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Huge ships and submarines with many removable

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an entire freight section can be automatically disengaged at the port.

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Bridge designs would be greatly simplified

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and bridges can be made corrosion-resistant.

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They would be prefabricated and transported to the site

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by twin-hulled catamarans.

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On some bridges, trains could be suspended beneath traffic lanes.

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Colonization of the oceans is one of

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the last frontiers remaining on Earth.

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Prodigious oceanic city communities will evolve as artificial islands

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floating structures, undersea observatories and more.

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These large marine structures are designed to explore

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the relatively untapped riches of the oceans

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and provide improved mariculture

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fresh water production, energy and mining.

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This could offset land-based shortages.

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They could also provide almost unlimited riches in pharmaceuticals

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chemicals, fertilizers, minerals, oil and natural gas.

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Ocean cities would be resistant to earthquakes

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and greatly relieve land-based population pressures.

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The population would vary from several hundred to many thousand.

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Underwater oceanic viewing and research facilities

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provide expensive panoramic observations of the undersea world

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in its natural habitat, without disturbing the ocean environment.

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Unsinkable floating sea domes will attract those who prefer

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unique offshore or island living.

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In the event of inclement weather, they could easily be towed ashore

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mounted, and anchored to elevated support structures.

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Mariculture and sea farming systems are used to cultivate

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and raise fish and other forms of marine life

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to help meet nutritional needs.

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integral parts of the ocean environment.

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A true world's fair of the future will emphasize the contributions

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made by all nations toward advancing humanity.

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Although this fair will provide entertainment

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its main function is to deepen understanding of the world we live in

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and the people who inhabit it.

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The architectural structures themselves

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will be jewels of future possibilities

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with a wide variety of exhibition buildings.

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Many of the displays will depict not what the future will be

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but what it can be, if we use science and technology

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with human and environmental concerns.

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It could be a vivid future showcase of the human potential.

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Videos, 3-dimensional displays and full-size dioramas will depict

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the fabulous advantages for all nations when working together

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to preserve the greatest gift we have:

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the resources and beauty of our planet Earth.

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In the final analysis, we are one people and share one planet.

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If you desire more information on any of the systems seen in this video

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visit our website at: www.TheVenusProject.com

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No one can really predict the future.

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There are too many unforeseen variables.

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In the future a city should be self-contained:

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electric generating systems on all the rooftops and roadways.

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It should contain shopping centers, medical care, childcare, schools

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everything that a city needs. If you build suburbia

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(you designers that are going to go out there in the future

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(taking kids to school) that way for shopping

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that way for the dentist, the other way for a doctor.

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When cities of the future are designed, they have to be self-contained

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and contain everything that people would need.

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Of course, the city of the future would have to be part

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of a global, integrated system

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where there are no longer separate nations

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and all of the Earth's resources would be declared

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the common heritage of all the world's people.

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That's if you don't want war, if you don't want depressions

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economic boom and bust, you have to redesign the culture

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based on scientific scales of performance.

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That means instead of people sitting around designing the future

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you have to base it upon a global survey.

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The first thing that has to be done

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is to invite all nations to participate in a global system.

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After all when you think about it

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where do you think we got this country from?

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We stole it from the Indians, New Mexico, the Spaniards

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and this is true of all nations.

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I'm sorry to say this, but they're all basically corrupt;

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all nations today, there's no way out. [applause]

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I just want to tell you

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potential soldiers who are going to enlist in the army

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or have already enlisted:

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All wars are phony!

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It represents the supreme failure of nations

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to bridge the difference between one another.

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When they conscript your lives... [applause]

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When they conscript you to serve, to give your life for this country

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they should conscript all the war industries

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so no one makes a buck out of war. Then it's real.

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Do you understand what I'm saying?

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They make billions out of war!

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Shooting Japanese in World War II on all the Pacific Islands:

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that's the wrong thing to do. They don't even know how to fight a war.

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What they should have done was arrange long range bombers

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to knock out the power projects in Germany and Japan:

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the electric generators, the dams.

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You don't need to shoot soldiers on the islands.

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When you do that, as long as the generators can operate the factories

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they will turn out weapons of war.

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War is big business. People make lots of money on it.

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It's not to bring democracy to undeveloped countries.

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We have never had a democracy in this country, at any time!

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Democracy is an illusion and I'll try to give you an idea... [applause]

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I'll try to give you an idea of what democracy would really be like.

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Our president would criticize a country for about an hour, hour and a half.

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When he's through, we would invite the prime minister of that country

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on the air to give his point of view.

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Then we would invite the prime minister of Sweden.

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He says "They're both wrong! This is how we see it..."

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That's a democracy: all points of view on the air

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every religion, non-religion, agnosticism, and you turn it on or off.

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We've never had that, at any time.

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And all these people say "Let's take back our democracy!"

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You can't have a democracy unless

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all kids have good, healthy, nutritious food

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and all people have medical care from birth to death

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and you get rid of the money system.

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As long as you've got a money system, you're going to have corruption:

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people pay off other people, take advantage of people...

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We have enough resources to build hospitals all over the world.

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The cost of World War II could have housed everybody on Earth

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wiped out the slums all over the world

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and built a brotherhood of man.

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The Christians and the Mohammedans

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and all the other religious groups

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give 'lip service' to the teachings of Christ.

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What we have to do is translate all religious teachings

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into a way of life, not paper proclamations.

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Do you follow me? In other words...

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[applause]

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What I'm saying is a very bold and different approach to life.

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Actually, the big question is: How do we get from here to there?

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Years ago I asked myself the same question.

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Different countries have belief systems that are different than ours.

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They have many wives, different concepts of God...

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How do you bridge the difference?

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This is what we needed in Washington

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not a military group or a Pentagon.

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We need sociologists, social scientists who are capable

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of bridging the difference between nations, and this is how you do it:

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You don't criticize their social customs or their religious beliefs.

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You talk about things we have in common.

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All the world's people need clean air, clean water, arable land

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and a relevant education, which you do not get today.

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Education teaches you nothing. It's more propaganda than information.

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[hoots, applause]

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In real education

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you study our relationship to the environment and to one another.

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I just want to say this, which is a little harder to accept:

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that all people, wherever they're coming from

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are perfectly well-adjusted. Again, where they're coming from.

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If you men were brought up by the headhunters of the Amazon

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if I walked into your thatched hut and said

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"Doesn't it bother you to have 10 shrunken heads?"

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you'd say "Yes it does bother me. My brother has 20!"

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[soft chuckles]

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To that culture, that would be normal.

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If you were brought up in deep South by uneducated people

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you would speak with a southern accent; nothing you can do about it.

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Environment shapes your facial expressions, your manners, your values.

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You might even talk like this:

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"I’m gonna get me a nigger, I'm gonna kick his ass, ha!"

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Even that is learned! There's no such thing as good or bad people.

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People come from different environments

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that impress them with a different set of values.

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If you're brought up in Nazi Germany as a baby

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and all you see is 'Heil Hitler!', 'Deutschland uber alles!'

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(Germany above all) you'd be a Nazi

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unless you've read or seen movies

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or have been influenced by other people.

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I'm trying to tell you something:

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Everybody is perfectly well-adjusted, where they're coming from.

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I want to say this about psychologists:

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Any psychologist, or psychiatrist

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that would try to adjust you to this system

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has got to be extremely stupid.

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[laughter and applause]

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In real, applied science

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we would do away with the conditions that generate aberrant behavior.

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We now know enough about human behavior

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to know that there is no such thing as gifted people.

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All the crap that you get in most schools is artificial.

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What is creativity? I don't know. They think it's a gift.

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It's not. Creativity is taking known elements

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and putting them together in unique ways

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and anyone can become creative.

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Sometimes they say "Well, I guess they're born that way"

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instead of saying "I really don't know

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what it is, that generates creativity."

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Creativity is not inventions that come from outer space

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and into the human mind from the gods.

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People haven't learned how to say "I don't know"

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and that's the most difficult thing to learn.

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When the government approached scientists and said

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"Can you put a man on the moon?" they said "We don't know."

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"What you mean, you don't know?"

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They said "We have to put a man in a centrifuge and whirl him around

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to see what he can stand. We don't know what humans can stand!

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If it's 9 x gravity

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that's the speed that a spaceship would takeoff at.

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You can't just take off at any speed, people would die.

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And they can't drink a glass of water in space.

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They have to put it into a tube and squeeze it into the mouth.

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So that's what I mean by 'I don't know'."

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There are many people that say "We'll never get to the moon.

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We'll never get to Mars..."  Just say "I don't know enough about it

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to give you my answers in that area."

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When you give everybody the right to their own opinion

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you are hurting the world.

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If a young lady lived across the street from me

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and I see 10 guys coming out of her apartment

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I could have all kinds of opinions.

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She could be a language instructor

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a ballet instructor, an art instructor...

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but when you can give everybody the right to their own opinion

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their opinion should be: "I don't know enough about that person"

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[or] "I don't know, I'm not technical.

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I don't know whether we'll ever get to Mars"

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but people, as long as they learn not to talk that way...

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Don't forget: Our language was designed hundreds of years ago

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thousands of years ago in other instances.

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We really can't talk 'to' each other, we talk 'at' each other

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and this is very unfortunate.

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In the future people will learn how to say

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"I don't know where the world came from.

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I don't know how life began" or "This is what I've read."

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They've got so many different opinions

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they jam everything in the culture.

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So your school is dependent on financial support

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and if you attack the financial structure

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they really don't want you speaking at schools because

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they need those endowments.

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Your motion pictures, your soap operas

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are all designed to fit the established culture.

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All cultures in the world today are established.

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What we need is something else: an emergent culture.

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An emergent culture means, there are no final frontiers

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no Utopias, that we keep going on

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and the word 'intelligence' has no meaning.

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In other words an intelligent electrical engineer of 75 years ago

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couldn't get a job today.

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The word 'intelligence' is a ridiculous term

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because it's an ongoing process.

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There is no such thing as civilization

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as long as you have militarism, prisons, police

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and conflict resolution

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which doesn't work at all, otherwise you'd have no war.

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In other words, if you bring up people with an appropriate language

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that is not subject to interpretation.

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Remember, the Bible is subject to interpretation.

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When you read it, you say "I think Jesus meant this."

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So and so says "Oh no, he meant that!"

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You've got the Lutheran, the Seventh Day Adventist, the Catholic:

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all the different variations

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but the language of science is not subject to interpretation.

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When an engineer writes a formula down

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it's understood all over the world.

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When you ask me "Is it possible to develop a language

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that isn't subject to interpretation?"

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[my answer is] "Mathematics, physics, engineering terminology

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is not subject to interpretation."

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If it was, you couldn't build bridges or airplanes

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so it is possible to develop [such] a language.

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If the future is to survive

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we must change our language, our habits, customs, our values

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because they were designed a long time ago

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and really are inappropriate.

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They tell you to write to your congressman.

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Well, what kind of a dummy is he that you have to write to?

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All of your politicians should have been at the forefront

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of technology and knowledge.

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Instead of having a military group in Washington called the Pentagon

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you should have a group of social engineers, social psychologists

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people that can bridge the difference between nations.

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War is the supreme failure and stupidity of nations

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that don't understand these fundamental principles.

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I'm not your enemy. I'm only trying to supply a method.

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We don't hate anybody. We don't want to kill anybody

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capitalists or communists.

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I got all these ideas during the last depression.

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15 million people were unemployed

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and they'd bought cars and houses

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and the banks failed, and they couldn't pay them off.

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There were 15 million people sleeping

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in every empty lot when I was a kid.

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Then we had the Veterans march on Washington

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because the government had told them they were going to give them

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$600 to start a life anew.

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They marched on Washington because they wanted that $600

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but the government didn't have the money, so they gave IOUs.

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You can't eat that or pay your rent with that.

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And the congressmen didn't like all the Veterans

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sleeping all around every empty lot in Washington.

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Douglas MacArthur (I believe he was a Captain at the time):

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They told him to get those veterans out of there

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and their wheelchairs, their tents and their crutches

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and they threw tear gas at them.

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This is Douglas MacArthur, your great hero!

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There was a book called 'The New American History' which covers this.

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A lot of wonderful books have been taken off the market

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because the smarter [ones], they didn't want you to know these things.

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00:30:51,113 --> 00:30:53,210
They don't want to you to know these things

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00:30:53,350 --> 00:30:55,523
because they can't control free people:

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people that are free, that can think freely, you can't control them.

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You try to make them uniform, patriotic.

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00:31:03,116 --> 00:31:07,973
I think it was Albert Einstein who said that "Patriotism is a disease."

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We should have royalties for people all over the world

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because they came here and brought all the wonderful ideas...

508
00:31:15,347 --> 00:31:18,756
Not everything is American as you've been told.

509
00:31:18,896 --> 00:31:22,330
In other words, we must build a universal language

510
00:31:22,470 --> 00:31:25,212
and we must invite all the nations in the world

511
00:31:25,352 --> 00:31:27,731
to share the resources of the Earth.

512
00:31:27,871 --> 00:31:32,340
When people have free access to the necessities of life

513
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,917
without the need for money, that will be the beginning

514
00:31:36,057 --> 00:31:38,185
of a scientific age.

515
00:31:38,325 --> 00:31:41,215
I'm sorry I don't have time to go into all kinds of

516
00:31:41,355 --> 00:31:44,093
detail that I'd like to go into.

517
00:31:44,504 --> 00:31:48,302
I just would like to tell you where I got these ideas from:

518
00:31:48,527 --> 00:31:51,019
I got them from the human body.

519
00:31:51,729 --> 00:31:55,817
If your brain said "I do all the thinking. I want all the nutrients"

520
00:31:55,957 --> 00:31:58,638
the lungs would say "If I don't oxygenate the blood

521
00:31:58,778 --> 00:32:00,541
you would die as a brain."

522
00:32:00,681 --> 00:32:04,187
So the brain asks "What do you need?" Lungs: "Everything you need!"

523
00:32:04,327 --> 00:32:07,505
Then the liver would say "If I don't filter the blood

524
00:32:07,645 --> 00:32:09,858
both of you guys would die." So the liver

525
00:32:09,998 --> 00:32:13,460
and all the organs of the body get whatever they need.

526
00:32:13,627 --> 00:32:17,331
It's neither communism, free enterprise or fascism.

527
00:32:17,471 --> 00:32:21,317
When you go to work for any company today, it's a dictatorship.

528
00:32:21,457 --> 00:32:23,463
The minute you punch that time clock

529
00:32:23,603 --> 00:32:25,699
you're under the dictates of that company.

530
00:32:25,839 --> 00:32:28,842
They say to you "You don't want to live in a dictatorship."

531
00:32:28,976 --> 00:32:30,771
What do you think you live in?

532
00:32:30,911 --> 00:32:34,793
When you work for department store and you stand behind a counter

533
00:32:34,933 --> 00:32:38,519
particularly a young lady in the best years of her life

534
00:32:38,659 --> 00:32:42,122
selling cosmetics, that isn't using her brain.

535
00:32:42,262 --> 00:32:45,217
When you work in the factory and you drill holes in things

536
00:32:45,357 --> 00:32:47,361
that isn't using your brain.

537
00:32:47,494 --> 00:32:51,439
We want to phase out most work that's repetitive

538
00:32:51,579 --> 00:32:53,633
and we can easily do that today.

539
00:32:53,773 --> 00:32:56,592
We've got more than enough resources

540
00:32:56,948 --> 00:32:59,446
to wipe out the slums all over the world

541
00:32:59,586 --> 00:33:01,742
build hospitals all over the world.

542
00:33:01,882 --> 00:33:04,692
This is what I mean by social change

543
00:33:04,832 --> 00:33:07,641
not this patchwork that you see now.

544
00:33:07,781 --> 00:33:10,972
Politicians, by the way, can offer nothing!

545
00:33:11,112 --> 00:33:14,246
Our problems are technical, not political.

546
00:33:14,386 --> 00:33:17,755
Politicians don't know how to stop automobile accidents.

547
00:33:17,895 --> 00:33:21,659
They don't know how to stop war. I don't care who you vote for:

548
00:33:21,799 --> 00:33:24,128
They just don't know what to do!

549
00:33:24,268 --> 00:33:27,396
What they're doing now will not work.

550
00:33:28,001 --> 00:33:31,658
In other words, this is the end of the old Free Enterprise System.

551
00:33:31,798 --> 00:33:34,393
It's going to crash, and when it crashes

552
00:33:34,533 --> 00:33:37,509
we hope that we're able to make a motion picture

553
00:33:37,649 --> 00:33:40,573
of how we get from here to the future.

554
00:33:41,513 --> 00:33:43,499
Since we are not being sponsored

555
00:33:43,639 --> 00:33:46,275
we make these short television runs

556
00:33:46,415 --> 00:33:49,985
just to get our foot in the door in Saudi Arabia.

557
00:33:50,125 --> 00:33:52,871
All they want to know is how to make money

558
00:33:53,227 --> 00:33:57,052
so we make this type of film. Once we get to Saudi Arabia

559
00:33:57,192 --> 00:34:01,194
we work with them and turn them around into a global point of view.

560
00:34:01,334 --> 00:34:03,313
This is what has to be done.

561
00:34:03,453 --> 00:34:07,265
There's going to be question period in another area.

562
00:34:07,405 --> 00:34:10,422
Thank you for your time. I deeply appreciate

563
00:34:10,562 --> 00:34:12,980
the opportunity of talking to you.

564
00:34:13,980 --> 00:34:17,359
[Applause]

565
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,560
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