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For nearly all of his 86 years,

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Jacque Fresco has been
designing cities of the future.

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This is what it looks like: a future where

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technology is harnessed for all and money

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has no relevance.

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It's called The Venus Project, and he says

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50 million people around the world are now

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involved or aware of it.

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[French commentator]

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[Russian commentator]

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[Spanish commentator]

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You may not have heard of Jacque Fresco,

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but he is known around the world.

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Documentaries have been done about him.

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Magazine writers from Europe
have written stories about him.

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I've now come to the other
side of the world to Florida

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to a place called The Venus Project

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to meet a man who has a very clear vision

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of what he thinks the future
of cities should look like.

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Fresco's vision goes beyond architecture.

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He sees his cities as tools for
fostering humanistic values.

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[Jacque Fresco] I feel that
environment shapes our values:

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the people we know,
the people we identify with.

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What will drive people in the future?

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A world without war, without hatred,

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without bigotry, without prejudice.

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The future isn't Star Wars
according to Jacque.

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It's a home for everyone.

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Jacque thinks he has the answer
in the city of the future.

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We’ll show a world in
which values are different.

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The aspirations of people:
they have compassion,

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feeling for one another,
concern over the environment.

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[Abby Martin] He’s a self-educated
industrial designer, engineer and futurist

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who truly believes the ills
of society can be cured ONLY

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if we throw away the rules
that govern it and ourselves.

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A Resource-Based Economy states that

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if you declare the Earth
and all its resources

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as the common heritage of
all of the world's people,

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there's no need for armies, navies,

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police, prisons, none of that's necessary

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if people have access to their needs.

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[Larry King] Now we'll start with this,

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and you tell me, you can point right at it.

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The center of a city, the nucleus,

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will house an electronic computer.

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The computers do not control people.

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All the machines do

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is control the physical entities
that comprise the environment.

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You can't be human or decent

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without the knowledge to overcome scarcity.

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[Brian Rose] He was talking about
this stuff before it became trendy,

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before it became popular,

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before Al Gore started talking about it.

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To save our land, to save our environment,

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we've got to reorganize our way of thinking

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and reconsider our social aims

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toward the brotherhood of man.

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If you had a free society

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you couldn't get people to go to war.

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If you had an intelligent type of
upbringing in one’s children,

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they would say "there must be many
other ways of solving problems

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other than killing people!"

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We had him on the show,
it was quite an honor.

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It was for a long time the most watched show.

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And it's not just an economic platform

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or a technology platform,

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it's really a different
way of looking at humanity.

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Now here they take a group
of scientists and engineers

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and they work on flying machines.

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You give them a flying machine,
they use it to bomb cities!

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So how can a person be scientific

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if they have allegiance to their country

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rather than to the Earth and everyone on it,

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and the intelligent use of resources?

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This would be a scientist, to me.

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[Natasha Tsakos] He is the
founder of The Venus Project,

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which integrates science and technology

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for a new society

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based on human and environmental concerns.

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The primary function

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is to maximize the quality of life

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rather than profits.

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Mr. Jacque Fresco.

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We have to learn how to
manage REAL economics,

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not for profit, [but] for human betterment.

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Then you'll see the beginning
of a civilized world.

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It must be a privilege to
serve members of society.

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Not that we want rewards or
medals or honor for what we do,

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[but] because it is just an honor to do it.

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You don't always communicate with people.

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[Roxanne Meadows] Jacque’s work
gave meaning to so many people's lives,

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and I feel very grateful to be one of them.

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There is nothing else I see
that's more viable to work on

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that would bring such positive
change to the way we live.

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I welcome your participation

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as I continue introducing
this direction to others

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while taking whatever steps possible

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toward a saner world.

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And I am so grateful

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for those who are working with me.

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♪ ♫

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Jacque Fresco
[1916 - 2017]

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[Production credits]

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[Appearance credits]
2017 The Venus Project