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Zeitgeist: The Movie

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes and 53 seconds

Year: 2006

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Leonardo da Vinci was a self-taught renaissance man.
As a scientist, artist and inventor, da Vinci's genius led to an unprecedented body of work.
The drawings he left behind remain as testaments to his innovation and originality.
One of da Vinci's main inhibitions was the lack of materials he needed to transform his concepts into reality.
Jacque Fresco is also a self-taught scientist, architect and inventor.
For his entire life he has been deeply committed to investigation,insight and innovation.
A prolific creator and builder,Jacque has been redesigning our entire culture for most of his life.
While da Vinci needed advanced materials,
Fresco has lacked access to the social and political resources needed to realize his most far-reaching ideas.
AUGUST, 1974
My guest is an extraordinary Miamian, Dr. Jacque Fresco I could go through all the things that Dr. Fresco has done
He's a social engineer, industrial engineer, designer, inventor;
was a consultant for Rotor Craft Helicopter, director of Scientific Research Laboratories Los Angeles,
designed and copyrighted various items ranging from drafting instruments to X-ray units;
has had works published in Architectural Records, Popular Mechanics, Saturday Review;
and has been a technical and psychological consultant of the motion picture;
industry member of the air force; designed development unit at Wright Field;
developed the electrostatic anti-icing systems;
designed prefabricated aluminum houses...
What does it say in your driver's license?
*laugh*
What is the occupation?
- Industrial Designer
- Jacque, you, uh...
- Social Engineer
- Does it bug you, that, uh, people, when people talk about Jacque Fresco in Miami, say that
he's someone who's too far ahead of this time. His thinking, is....
We're not ready for advanced kind of thinking. That type. Does it bug you?
I imagine every creative person in every field encounters that sort of problem.
No, it doesn't. I can't afford it. There's too many things that are important.
Jacque Fresco is a futurist.
A futurist is someone for whom all thoughts and actions
are based upon what tomorrow could be.
He has been planning for the future since the 1920s.
Not only is he a philosopher and theorist
but an engineer, industrial designer and social planner.
As a multi-disciplinarian, he has studied everything from theology to behaviorism
and from biology to the material sciences.
Jacque Fresco doesn't want to just talk about what today will be like tomorrow.
He has a plan, to build an entire new world, from the ground up.
- I'd like to go from the time you first started conceiving of drawings.
- Started drawing? - Yeah. - Well, that's very early.
- Eight, nine... eight or nine years old.
- About the future?
- Yes. I was always interested in the future, as far back as I can remember.
There was a motion picture called Metropolis. It was different; it took my attention.
It was the first out-of-the-box type movie.
It depicted the future as a regimented system, which was totally unacceptable.
But the architecture was interesting, and the robotics, in that film, were interesting.
I drew airplanes and cities of the future; and underwater cities
and floating cities; and skyscrapers with landing platforms on them.
I drew my idea of what a post office ought to be.
Since the airport was so far from the post office---they had a truck deliver that---
I figured, here's these long post offices, but why couldn't we land on top,
pick up the mail directly and fly onward?
So I would draw landing platforms on the rooftops of the buildings
slightly angular, so the airplane didn't have trouble landing, 'cause it wouldn't be as long.
It'd be slowed up by the incline. But then, on take off, they would go in reverse.
Then I tried ships:
drawings of passenger/freighter ships; then aircraft carriers.
And I showed it to my principal.
And he said,
"Have you ever heard of Bucky Fuller?"
And I said, "No."
So, he said, "Would you like to meet him?"
I said, "Yeah, sure.
Is he-- what is he?"
He says, "He's an inventor like you.
He thinks up a lot of new things."
But Mr. Fuller was one of the 20th century's most renown futurists.
Known primarily as the inventor of the Geodesic dome,
Fuller was a proponent of using technology with a humanistic approach.
And there was Bucky Fuller. He was seated there with his car called the Dymaxium.
And I said, "What does that mean?" He said, "It is the highest form that can be attained in shape".
I talked to him about social things. I said, "What about changing society to some other form
whereby all people can benefit from the works of industry?"
He said, "What do you mean?"
I said, "Well, if all-- ...instead of working people going out on strike,
give them a piece of the action.
And so if business improved they all got automatic pay.
If it went down, they got less pay."
So he sat back and he said, uh,
"What are you, some kind of social planner?
Is that what you want to be?"
I said, "I don't know what the name is,
but I think that would work.
It would give people more incentive."
He says, "Let me tell you something. It's tough enough just getting a new automobile out there.
If you're trying to change society...."
This was years before he even lectured on things.
Albert Einstein once said,
"The problems we have cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
- Uh, did you meet Einstein? Albert Einstein? - Yes.
- Where did you get the idea to meet Albert Einstein?
- I was outside a theater called Radio City.
Then I saw a girl come out-- a woman come out with gray hairs sticking up.
I said, "It looks like Einstein's sister,"
to my friends!
And then Einstein came out.
And I think it was his sister.
I was just kidding about that.
And I walked over and I said, "...Is it possible to meet with you?"
He said, "Why?"
I said, "I have thousands of questions I want to ask."
But, he says, uhm, "I live in Princeton, New Jersey."
- So tell me about the day you went and met him.
- Well, I went to his home. And it was modest.
I said that there seems to be harmony in nature.
"How do you feel about that?"
He says, "Yes, the universe is lawful. But,
'harmony', I don't know what you mean by that."
I said, "Well when a rat eats insects it may be supporting the rat system.
But what about the insect system?"
What he did is he used some water from the backyard swamp water,
and he put it under a microscope, and he said,
"Look; everything is fighting everything else."
He said, "In the human body, everything is fighting everything else."
In the ocean, big fish eat little fish."
I, I didn't really have enough time to sit there with Einstein
and go through all kinds of things, because he didn't seem to be in that area.
He did, *imitating Einstein* "Are you interested in mathematics?"
*still mocking* Mathematics... are you interested...
"What boolean geometry means to you?"
You know.
I didn't wanted to get off into that, 'cause, to me, that would be a sidetrack.
Mathematics is a tool, just like sociology, and anthropology.
This are all instruments to go into making up the future.
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Jacque was only 13 years old.
Coming of age during in The Great Depression
prompted many questions for the curious and inquisitive young man.
Living in New York City he found the squallier and suffering around him, difficult to understand.
The confusion, contradictions and struggles he saw left a significant impact on his character.
Things were so bad that I had no way of looking at it.
And I, I thought the rules of the game were somehow screwed up.
I went to many different meetings---
communist meetings, socialist meetings, fascist meetings, Mankind United, technocracy---
to see what the world was teaching, including eastern philosophy.
And I wanted to know what people thought, what they wanted. Why they gelled on, on one system.
And that each time a society arrived at a system
they tend to keep that system. They didn't even try to go beyond that.
But, in technology, whenever we made anything, we try to surpass it.
The history of civilization to me, then, was the history of change---social change, human arrangements,
homes, boats, planes, trains---all of them were in the process of social evolution,
including our language, our outlook, our values, our behavior.
As the Depression wore on, Jacque left New York and started hitchhiking around the country.
In his travels he met many interesting and different people;
most of whom were, like himself, searching for a way of life that was fair and equitable.
Eventually, he ended up traveling to the warm waters and primitive islands of Tahiti.
I wanted to go to the south seas, because I liked the idea of the natives sharing things. I've read about that.
Now, the chief, if he had six wives, and you were strange, he said,
"Here's my best wife. Maybe she will please you."
They, they felt their wives gave them so much joy,
perhaps they'd give a visitor some joy.
You know why? They're thinking about it was different.
And that upset-- it caused me to ponder,
"Hey, uh... gee, uh...
That´s not the way I saw things. Was that the way I saw things, or was that the way I was indoctrinated?"
That's when I began to ask those questions.
So how do you know that anything you like makes sense, Jacque?
What about your own values? Think about them; maybe they are senseless.
Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941
Concerned that Tahiti would be invaded,
Jacque returned to the US and joined the army air corps.
When the war was over, thousands of factories stood idle.
Their manufacturing capacity no longer needed for wartime production.
Capitalizing on the tremendous capacity available for aluminum fabrication,
Jacque designed and built a house made entirely from aluminum extrusions.
The result was an innovative and extremely efficient use of time and materials.
The windows, for example, were put in, and then extrusions snapped in,
and sit with a seal [?]. And so it was very rapid. It took something like twelve minutes
to put up all the windows.
Eight hours to put up the building.
1948, it was unveiled at Warner Bros., and there were lines all around the studio.
Thousands of people had come to see it. And airplanes--
smoke, written in through the sky, "Visit The Trend Home at Warner Bros. Studio."
It was publicized in news papers,
I think the Architectural Record, as one of the first mass-produced type homes.
Jacque appreciated the challenges of innovative problem solving.
As he honed his skills he became a competent inventor.
He always had a research lab and was constantly inventing new products.
While much of his time was spent pursuing his own interests,
he was also hired by entrepreneurs to design and fabricate specific inventions,
working in a very broad array of technologies.
He invented everything from medical and dental devices
to 3D motion picture projection systems.
A guy named Jack Morse was a film producer at the time.
I met him at Warner Bros. Studios.
He came to see the Trend Home.
And he was awed by the--
everything fitting together so sensibly.
And he said, "How do you guys think of these things?"
You know.
So I began to describe how I thought about things,
and then he found ME interesting.
And he said, "Hey, uh... come on out to the house."
And he had a big estate, you know.
And he said, uh, "Can you-- do you think you can make
a movie projector that projects 3D images without glasses?"
So I said, "Yes."
He said, "How do you know you can do it?
You've never done it."
And I said, "That's right.
But if it's a physical phenomenon I think I can work it out."
"How are you gunna' do it."
I said, "I don't know yet."
And what I did, is, uh, I had many different applications,
which I'd rather not describe in detail.
But I got 3D imaging different ways.
And the simplest way was, uh, projecting the right and left eye image from behind the screen,
at the right eye and the left eye.
Now, then, if you moved over to the side you lost your image.
And so, uh, Jack wanted Technicolor to go the rest of the way.
So he got them to come out and look at it.
"How do you do that? It's very interesting."
I said, "I'm-- we're not at liberty to disclose that
unless you back the next stage [of development]."
So, they said, "Well, how do you maintain visual isolation?"
I said, "I still can't discuss that with you."
So they looked at it, and it was super clear---no lines.
They said, "Well, that's the best I've seen up to now, but
it fades at 30 degrees."
I said, "Yes, it does."
"And, at a distance, it fades, too, as you move back."
So, they said, "Well, can you do anything about that?"
I said, "Yes.
That's why you're here!
...to take it to the next stage."
So, they said, "Look, Jacque, you get rid of the fade,
and you get rid of the distance problem, then call us."
So, uh... that died.
like the Trend Home died."
Then I read in the books on inventions how Alexander Graham Bell had to make the telephone
before they backed it.
The Xerox machine had to be made, completely!
Edison had to MAKE the electric lamp.
Nobody backed him on the way up, until
after he was known.
- What are these for? What were these all about? These are....
Oh, gee, ahh.... - These are various-- well these are surgical instruments, aren't they?
- Yes, various types, but those are only some of them.
You know what a retractor is? - No
It holds the skin open while you're operating.
These are various types of retractors.
The purpose of that was to rotate
the bone so it's in line before you put the prosthesis in.
It rotates the femur, the upper region of the femur.
Those are tweezers with holes in them (if look at the holes in the front of the switch...)
to put the sutures through to guide you through the muscle.
So you put it over the muscle, and the holes are right through the middle of the muscle.
You didn't have to eyeball it.
- So these are things that you designed...
- Long time ago.
- ...under contract? - Oh, yeah.
- You were contracted to design these things? - Yeah, yeah.
I did thousands of different things.
But this doctor took the patents out in his name.
But that's all right. I didn't [??] those out there.
I didn't know what I wanted to be. You know, since
I had looked at all things, and tried to change all things---
wheelchairs, everything.
Make 'em better. You know.
I found it easy to invent.
But, then, inventions cost money.
And I didn't have money for patents.
So I used to make thousands of different inventions
and just file them away, because I had no money.
I used to spend my savings, whatever I earned, on what equipment that I needed.
And if I was working on an artificial leg, and I was $200 behind,
I would take my last $200, and work on that, you know.
And I'd solve that problem, but then the rent would be due, and the electric bills,
and I couldn't pay 'em!
So the auctioneers would be sent in
to auction off everything in my lab.
So I had to sit back--. I couldn't adjust, to say,
"Well, I got to set aside $25 for rent, $200 for this,
for a machine." I couldn't do that, 'cause I was very near the answers,
and the type of problems I worked on
were outside of the frame of reference of most science.
In the fluorescent tube you have high voltage moving along,
and you have a transformer that generates it,
and you put a phosphor material that glows.
But the tube is round,
and the phosphor on that back side does nothing.
It's only the phosphor on the front side
so i want to extrude the tube, so it's elliptical
so you have more light surface in an elliptical tube
Then i wanted to mirror back, the back of the tube
instead of putting a big reflector outside there,
put the mirror inside the tube.
So I didn't have the money to make that tube.
then i got...i said:what a hell you are making a tube for?
Why don't you work on a flat sheet of glass that phosphors the *glove*
So make glass that's electrically conductive
Well how do you make a non-conductive electrically conductive?
By putting metallic particles in the glass, and phosphors.
What would happen? The electric current would flow through the glass, animate the phosphors,
so you had a flat sheet
You don't want a lamp! A lamp is only giving light on one side
I wanted the whole surface to glow.
Over time, Jacque's ideas about the future
became more well-organized and focused
Gradually, he began to combine his technological expertise
with what he had learned about human behavior,
sociology and social structure.
-I spent so many years improving area by area
I said, "Look, the whole society is aberrated the way we do things.
why not redesign society?
It'd be easier than making all these thousands of products...
-So you really decided to...re-design the culture
Because I couldn't get---
patchwork didn't work
It wasn't sufficient.So, they thought I was a communist.
after all the guy wanted to redesign society. What else?
- What is a sociocyberneering?
-Sociocyberneering is a new organization
and it represent the application of the most sofisticated (The Larry King Show - August,1974)
forms of science and technology
toward problem solving
so that we can reclaim the environment
which we loused up over the years
and to build a way of life worthy of man
to humanize society
to break away from the artificiality, the regimentation
that dominates our society today
Our society seem torn apart and pulled in many directions
Sociocyberneering is an approach at the restructuring of society
in humanistic terms.
- Humanistic terms, yes.
The mission of sociocyberneering was to build a residential research center
developing and demonstrating new technologies
and innovative social concepts within a community setting
On a barren scrap of land in central Florida,
Jacque and a few friends began to build what is now known as...
The Venus Project
named after the tiny nearby village of Venus, Florida.
Occupying some 25 acres, 10 buildings have been constructed.
Each utilizes both design, construction and lifestyle concepts
integral to developing a working model of harmony and high productivity,
integrating both nature and advanced technology.
Jacque's objective, of conducting a complete reassessment and redesign of our entire culture,
remains the central focus of his work.
With The Venus Project he has created an environment
conducive of creativity and innovation.
When people come here they're amazed to hear
that this was just a flat tomato patch.
We've dug out streams and ponds and planted hundreds of palm trees and trees
And we built this land to show
(Roxanne Meadows) what the outskirts of the city would be like.
We have many buildings here, but you can't see one building when you're in another.
We really wanted to show how high-tech and nature
could coexist within this environment.
Jacque and Roxanne have been living on the property and building The Venus Project
since the late 1970s
The entire time has been a constant process of developing
and implementing new ideas.
Jacque begins with a drawing,
then produces a scale model
and then videotapes his models in order to demonstrate his concepts for the future.
Although Venus, Florida is relatively isolated,
visitors often make the journey to see The Venus Project
and to meet Jacque.
-Jhon - I'm Marguerite. - Hi, Marguerite
I'm not gunna' remember your names, but hey! ...
I'm Jacque. Hi, how are you?- Jacque? - Good to see you.- Charlie. - How are you?
Have a seat, and then we'll go on with what this is about.
Is everybody here?
So, there was a time when all-- most people believe that
the decisions of the majority was very close to reality.
But there was also a time when the majority of people believed the Earth was flat.
And if you asked them whether they were sincere, they said:
"Of course! You can see it's flat!"
So they break a sincerity meter
But it isn't sincerity that the world needs.
It needs the intelligent management of the Earth's resources.
It's what we don't have.
The major contribution The Future by Design would like to provide is
a method of coping with problems.
Now, you're brought up to believe,I believe this
that everyone should have a right to their own opinion. Isn't that the way you were brought up?
- Yes, sir. - Okay.
When you got everybody going around and giving their opinion
("I'll tell you what's wrong with Jim!" ) See?, they've got all kinds of opinions
But when engineers talk to each other they don't say, "Believe me." They say,
"See this new metal?
It can hold up 4,000 pounds per square inch."
He puts it in a machine and pulls it apart
and he says, "You're right!"
So, I would say that the majority of the people of the world today are unsane.
Not insane, unsane meaning
having been exposed to methods of evaluation
that are long rendered obsolete.
Our language in the future will change, to a saner language
where we have no argument in it.
I said, "Well, can there be such a language?"
-There is!
When engineers talk to each other it's not subject to interpretation.
They use math; they use descriptive systems.
If I interpreted what another engineer said in the way I think he meant it,
you couldn't build bridges! You couldn't build dams; you couldn't build power transmission lines.
The language has to have meaning.
That's why when a doctor writes a prescription, if he prints it,
you know, it's the same all over the world.
So the world I'm talking about is different.
There aren't too many people that have seen everything that he's gone through in the past
and come out of it with a certain direction.
And the interesting thing is, too, is that he's not a philosopher
that talks about how the world should be---his point of view.
He's a technician that understands how it can be built,
and has worked with people and understands what it takes to
change them,
and understands what it was that made them that way.
So it's really based on hands-on learning and not reading something in a book,
you know. He went through the experiences himself
and came out with the conclusions he did,
because it was based on actually learning-experience and experiments.
When an engineer has an idea he talks to the computer about the idea
While they're talking about it the integrated computerized system
will take the elements that they're speaking about, convert the language into imagery
and the image will churn
and be exposed to all of the watching at the exhibit and presentation.
They will question the presentation, but the image system will answer the questions
how the buildings are fabricated, how water is supplied, how it handles earthquakes,
or any other question.
Instead of people sitting around asking an individual questions,
the answers are demonstrated inside of what appears to be a transparent dome.
So, ideas are not just verbal,
because when you talk verbally it does not deliver enough information to people.
So, a more comprehensive system of communication is 3-dimensional imaging always
showing people what you've got in mind,
not what they think you've got in mind.
Designed with a holographic computer and built from prefabricated materials,
the home of the future will be far more than just a residence.
It will be an element of lifestyle and will facilitate learning, inspiration and communication.
One of the most interesting aspects of tomorrow's civilization
will be the fact that if you knew anyone fairly well, and went to visit 'em in a period of time
of just a few years, their houses will change,
because the people living in them change.
Their needs and dimension of knowledge grows considerably,
and so will the environment that they live in.
There's no such thing as a fixed home that a person lives in all their lives.
It changes with their values, with their outlook, with their acquired knowledge.
-You had said one thing about how the buildings were designed according to function.
- Yes
- The curvature, and the materials, and the... -Yes
- Compare it to natural physiology.
An animal's shape is not designed from the outside in.
It evolves from the inside out.
Whatever you request,
the exterior will express a cover over the shape that you'd prefer to live in.
Some of the buildings that are dome-shaped
can be laid like eggs continuously by a machine
that carries a dome shape.
And in that dome the exterior and the interior fabricate at the same time.
Not everyone will choose to live in a dome.
They will choose to live in whatever architectural shape would meet their needs.
The reason why we suggest a dome
is it uses the minimum amount of materials and covers the maximum areas
and offers maximum strength.
So the dome shape is included in almost all of nature.
Your brain is in a dome
The cranial case is in a dome.
So when a person says, "Yeah, I don't think I'd want to live in a dome,"
you've been living in a dome most of your life.
The interior of the building will have no source of light.
You won't be able to see a lamp or source of light.
All the walls would have even illumination.
You can also specify the color of the illumination
either the entire inner surface or local areas of different color if this is your request.
This will be the simplest type of bathroom
shower, sink, toilet bowl molded into one system.
Actually, there's no hardware on here.
But there's a slot, and the water comes out as a ribbon,
and that'll cut the soap off the hand and use about 1/60 the amount of water.
Now, the waste water from the sink
goes down into a pipe around here and fills the water closet, and we flush the john with that water.
So instead of telling people to save water, build a system in.
This is what it's all about if you wish to conserve water.
Now, the bathrooms may vary
from that simple style to slightly more complex,
but all one piece.
There may be as many as fifty variations on a bathroom.
You pick what you want, and then it's installed.
When you leave the building the entire building is clean.
We also have a slight increase in air pressure in the building,
so no dust comes in from the outside.
If there's any contaminates in the air
it increases the electrostatic charge, which removes contaminates.
It would be a smart house, because the house has a nervous system.
This is what I'm saying.
In the future houses will have many sensory devices
to detect fire, toxic materials,
anything that may threaten the life of a human being.
Now, if you walked into the house of the future you might say, "Can I use your phone?"
I'd say, "Well, what's a phone?"
You'd just say,
"I'd like to talk to Sam in Arabia."
You just announce what you want. And the sound would be focused,
and at some point you stand it right at your ear
so you can hear Sam in Arabia.
In southern Florida, millions of dollars in buildings were destroyed by the big hurricane there,
and they'd put up buildings that look just about the same.
Now, if you don't want hurricane damage...
an inverted cone. It's almost impossible for a whirlwind to pick up an inverted cone.
So we would have these shelters built in the West Indies or wherever hurricanes occur.
And inside would be pull-down bedding, food storage and emergency water.
So this is the kind of form that no vortex or wind can pick up.
Try to pick this up with greasy fingers
and that's similar to the wind whirling around it.
For apartment buildings and other large structures,
Jacque has devised a cybernated construction system.
Computer-controlled robots will handle 90%
of the movement and placement of prefabricated components.
Special advanced materials are to be developed,
eliminating waste and minimizing the need for manual labor.
Guided by satellite, and using a sophisticated form of artificial intelligence,
the buildings will construct themselves
a technique Jacque has named 'self-erecting structures'.
This represents a relatively complex aluminum extrusion.
If you were to take a toothpaste tube and cut the letter 'T' in the opening
and squeeze the toothpaste it would come out like the letter 'I';
and this is how extrusions are made.
However, in the future it may be possible to extrude complete apartment houses,
apartment building units or modules.
This extrudor can be faced with different guise
to mold different shapes
Almost an infinite number of shapes can be extruded.
So, it would be the apartment of your preference that's extruded.
So, any shape, or almost any extruded shape
can be designed to fit many different architectural arrangements.
This is a transitional-type structure
which utilizes cranes to lift the components of the building.
Eventually, the building itself will be part of the self-erecting structure.
Don't forget all the models I do are only transitional.
They don't represent the best that man can churn out,
'cause no one knows what the future will bring.
There's just so many variables that can alter things.
So the models that I make are all transitional.
And many of them are only conceptual;
they're not necessarily what the future might look like.
They're only like, well, let's say they're extrapolations
of taking the present and extrapolating forward.
But we can't go too far forward,
because we don't know what new things will come into being.
- Now, this, looks like a train station.
- We hope to phase out the airplane
by designing transportation units that can move up to 2000 miles an hour
floating on a magnetic repulsive field or an air cushion.
And in those huge trains of tomorrow there'll be television, radio, amusement, art centers, classrooms
not a group of seats lined up as your trains are today.
If forty or fifty people have to leave the train,
we slow up to a hundred miles an hour,
lift off the passenger section or slide it off,
and slide on a section with the passengers getting on.
You don't have to stop the whole plane, or the train!
In the future we will just shove off those passengers getting off and that freight leaving.
This is part of the linear acceleration train
that can take you anywhere in the world in just a few hours,
safely without snow, rain, being lost at sea.
- Are all these things you're saying, Jacque...
A monorail is one of the methods of transportation.
Some of them can be extended by magnetic levitation.
Others can use wheels and ride the rails.
This is an aerial perspective of a monorail station
with entrance and exits on the side of the highway.
This is actually a two-monorail,
because it is one rail system that supports two trains.
Most monorails aren't really monorail
they consist of two tracks.
This is accomplished on one track.
The vehicles of the future will be highly aerodynamic in shape.
Their shape will permit the minimum amount of skin resistance,
giving you the maximum distance for minimum fuel consumption.
The front end of the car will be equipped with radar or sonar
or other sensory devices that can detect the distance you are from other vehicles
and maintain that separation automatically.
In other words, on a highway or anywhere where two cars
might hit each other, the electronic sensors would sense the distance automatically
and keep the cars from side-swiping or making contact at all.
Now, even if they did and then pinched a slight dent in the car,
the car would be made up of the memory materials:
shape-memory alloys that go back to their original shape
even when dented.
I'm going to take this metal called nitinol.
This wire or spring is wound around a mandrill
and heated to a specific temperature and held until it cools.
Then, when you pull it out beyond its elastic limit,
so it's not about to return to the spring shape,
and then deform it in many different ways
Then, if it's heated, I'll put it on this form, so it won't drift away
and I'm going to heat that metal,
you can watch it return to its original shape.
It's called 'memory-shape alloys'.
It could be done in plastics, metals or any other materials in the future.
Watch how it returns.
And even if there's an area of the car we removed,
they can be rebuilt---in other words, automatically,
by the car having a memory system of its configuration
just like the human body, just like
perhaps in lizards and salamanders and certain types of organisms today
can regenerate parts of their body.
The technology of the future will enable our automotive vehicles to repair
and regenerate damaged areas.
This is a transport unit, or air-suspended unit.
It will travel five or four feet above the ground,
and not requiring highways or bridges.
You can turn around by electrodynamic means,
discharging air from the right or the left side
not by tunneled air paths but just by attracting or repelling air.
I did this about 65 years ago.
This is what an automobile will look like in the future.
It'll have sensors on it,
so if I got mad at you, and-- when I get within a certain distance the breaks go on.
If I'm backing up and there's a child crossing the car stops.
No one drowns in a swimming pool, because a net comes up when you're not home.
Is that clear? If somebody falls in the pool and you're busy cooking:
the child sinks to the bottom, a tight net comes up right away.
What do you want? What kind of world do you want?
what you see here is just glimpses of the future.
So we'll go and look the place over, and so you've got a better idea.
Now, that area over there across the water we will build a very large dome,
like a center for dialogue, to invite different people out here.
This is a freighter with separate sections.
This freighter can deliver this to the Philippines, drop this off in Hawaii
And so when all of the freight bays are released
they are propelled automatically to the loading docks.
And then the forward portion of the ship and the rear portion
which is the propulsion unit
are joined together. So you always travel at a balanced load;
you never travel with an empty hull back.
So, using energy that way conserves millions of gallons of fuel
if you use fuel in a conventional sense.
This is a possible propulsion method.
In this instance, water is drawn toward the surface of the ship electrodynamically,
and, in turn, the ship's reaction is forward,
away from the pressure toward the rear.
It's like holding a peach pit, and squeezing it, and it moves forward.
It has far less weight,
less water turbulence
and very little energy consumed.
What you see here is an illustration of underwater transportation for the future.
At the very leading edge, air bubbles will be emitted very rapidly
in front of the unit, and that will cut down the resistance considerably.
If you were to release thousands of air bubbles underneath the ship it would sink,
because the water is less buoyant with the air bubbles in it.
So the air bubbles will be a system in the future for reducing the forward resistance.
Transporting things underwater is much more economical
and offers much less resistance.
When traveling on the surface, you're confronted with waves and wave motion.
Underwater you don't have that problem at all.
We talk about civilization as though it's a static state.
And there are no civilized people yet;
it's a process that's constantly going on.
We're not civilized; it's an ongoing process.
And so we never become fully civilized, because we'd have to know quite a bit
in order to behave in the most constructive matter
and that goes for intelligence.
I don't know if I've talked to you about an electrical engineer of 75 years ago,
an intelligent one,
couldn't get a job today.
So when you're talking about intelligence, what are you talking about?
It's an ongoing process.
That's why there's no such thing as an intelligent person.
There are people that are fairly well-informed in area A and B,
not informed in area C.
And, so, when you go on with a word like civilization
it sounds like something that was attained.
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime,
you're in the early stages of civilization ... what they call
'civilization'.
This type of helicopter, or aircraft,
will have its propulsion unit at the tip of the blades.
They'd be relatively small/high thrust.
The center of the disc, or the passenger compartment, would remain stationary
while the blades spun around.
In the event of engine failure
the blades can automatically gyrate and bring the craft down,
not only vertically but can travel forward by tilting.
You will notice that there are no ailerons or elevators on this plane.
It's operated in a different manner, also by ion propulsion.
Electron discharge is much lighter, much cheaper, much safer,
much faster, and less energy consumed.
In the future, by controlling the airflow (over wings and the direction of it)
the need for a rudder will be rendered obsolete.
For individual transportation of small groups,
you have the vertical landing and take-off 'vetal [??] aircraft' of the future.
They are called 'lift fuselage',
as the body itself generates the lift
for this type of aircraft. And it is propelled electronically,
meaning particles are electrified and discharged from the rear of the craft
which propel the craft forward.
And for hovering we then eject the same propellant downward
and generate a ring vortex, a whirling vortex beneath the craft,
and the control of that vortex determines the speed downward.
We're going over to the model dome where we have models of future type
buildings and how they go together.
Here you have the city system.
I put domes here, but there'll be very many variations.
In other words... yes?
- What are those?
- These are research centers. - Okay. - This is... medicine, agronomy, population designing,
improvement of products, energy systems.
Energy in the future will be geothermal, most of it. You can get that from the earth.
There's enough geothermal energy for thousands of years
without worrying about anything.
And I'm not talking about solar, wind power or wave power, or tidal power
all that is extra.
So, there's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.
- You can't make money from the sun.
- What's that?
- You can't make money from the sun!
- No, you can't. Exactly that.
Now, all these buildings can come apart and be recycled.
Now if you follow me we'll go to the future.
- All right, let's explore the thinking of Jacque Fresco and the society he'd like to see.
Now, we'll start with this, and you tell me...
- I'll try to point it out. - Yeah, you can point right at it.
- Most of the cities are based on natural configurations,
basic designs in nature.
The center of the city, the nucleus, will house an electronic computer
which only controls water purification,
the atmospheric conditions, that is, it controls air contamination systems;
they maintain safety, they oversee the environment,
maintain ecological balance between animal life and plant life.
The center of the city is a university:
a university that covers all subjects related to man;
there's no courses that are used to exploit or abuse any other human being.
All repetitious jobs
will be phased out.
We feel that machines ought to do the filthy, or the repetitious, or the boring jobs
that man has to be free
to pursue the higher things,
the higher possibilities of man. In other words, if this....
- So you came up with this idea for a round city.
- A round city. A round governmental branch.
And then, extending out of it would be the department of agricultural, education, oceanography,
the disciplines.
The circular scheme, or plan, brings each district closer to the central dome,
which contains the medical, food, shopping,
everything else that people need.
The circular arrangement makes it easier to operate,
using far less energy than any other system.
And, if you start at one end of the city, and go through the city,
you'll always return to the same place.
Whereas, in a linear city, you go to one end,
you have to backtrack to get to the same point.
So the circular scheme is, by far, the most efficient.
And when cities are contracted in the future
they will be contracted as a whole, as an entire system.
In that way all of the parts and components would be delivered in stages,
like sequence [??] one will be the underground:
the heating system, the electric generators, the piping systems, the recycling systems
Then, after that, the next layer, which would serve as the first layer
that contains the architecture, the foundations for all the buildings.
And, after that, the erection of structures up from the foundations,
starting with the central portion of the city working its way out to the different radial sectors,
and then out to the final housing sectors,
and then to the agricultural belt,
and then to the recreation areas.
The cities themselves are prefabricated.
Most of the elements that comprise the structures of the cities
are interchangeable, interlocking. They are designed
so they can be dissembled, just as they are assembled.
So, the new cities will be updated continuously.
As the waters are piped into the cities, they are checked
and, to whatever extent contamination exists, the water processing plants
evaporate the water, recondense it and cleanse it.
In other words, all waters piped into the city will be monitored, constantly
not by a monitoring system but several monitoring systems.
The same is true of the air above and around the city; it's constantly monitored.
All of the rooftops are photovoltaic
all of the skin, outer skin of the building convert solar radiation into electrical energy.
As we move beyond the third sector we come to tennis courts, parks.
Beyond that is the residential district,
which consists of lakes, waterfalls,
all kinds of beautiful plants throughout the area.
And each house is concealed by plants,
so you can't see another building.
Some people prefer, as in the next sector, to live in apartment houses. 780 00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:30,0000 The apartments have drama groups, recreation, swimming pools,
discussion groups and so many other facilities.
The disadvantage of living in a private home is you would have to go
to the various places to access the same things.
Instead of motor vehicles in the city,
all transportation is carried on by circular conveyors that we call transveyors.
They move radially, circumferencially and vertically
they serve the function of elevators, buses, conveyors.
But, if you wish to go to another city
you can take an elevator down beneath the central dome,
which has Maglev trains, etc.
that will transport you to the center of any other city or any other region.
There will be no waste products, just as in nature there are no waste products.
All materials that we would formerly called waste
would be recycled and converted into new products.
And, when the city hits a certain number of people
we stop the development and let everything
go back to nature, between this and the next city.
It doesn't mean that we can solve all the problems.
We can just design and build a far better environment
to advance all human beings.
Like I said, not everybody will live in a dome
This is different types of architecture; this may be a vacation house.
I don't know, like I say, what people will choose to live in,
but that would be up to each individual.
What we want to do is build a city in the sea.
You pick the city you want to live in.
Some of these cities are for ocean mining.
The oceans have tungsten, manganese, phosphorous
all kinds of chemical stuff we may need.
And they're made available to all people.
And you don't have to worry about being blind in the future.
We design cities so you can hear an open door and you can sense a table,
because you have built-in sensors.
And we work on making artificial methods for visual,
for everybody, because anybody can lose their eyesight.
There's no more nickels and dimes for medical research.
This is what the army of the future is all about. You get it? Okay.
There's usually an alligator sleeping down here.
-Are you betting that people will not declare war on each other
so that you can get at building all of this?
- Well, we don't have much choice; we're going to destroy each other, or we're going to make it.
- Now, this looks like some sort of submerged stadium with something...
- We might build circular cities in the sea
where the water is about 30-35 feet deep.
Most of the apartment houses will open out into the sea.
You can observe marine life and fish swimming by
there'll be no zoos, no seaquariums.
Everything will be observed in natural conditions.
There will be boating, scuba diving, recreation, universities built in the sea.
- Are these drawings all made by you? - Yes.
- This represents a blueprint of the basic structure of the city in the sea.
There are helicopter landing areas on the upper section
There are cranes that travel around the entire upper potion of the structure
The legs are designed to move up and down
to the support the structure, rests on the sea bed.
Now, what are these cities in the sea for?
Some of them represent hospitals
that can be towed off the coast of Africa or India.
Instead of sending building materials out there,
and building a hospital, then shipping the equipment out there,
it's much easier to build a floating hospital,
tow it off the coast of Africa, use it,
and, by the time the new hospitals are assembled there, you can then move this to another region,
float it to another region.
Most of the cities will be constructed in dry-docks
by automated systems.
After it's complete and the flood-locks are open, and it fills with water,
and there are units that looks like tugboats
that deliver the cities to their site where it will be located
some will house as many as a million people
a series of cities in close proximity, joined together
by transport systems, that is, tunnels either under the water
or above-the-water bridges.
This is an aerial view of one of the many variations of cities in the sea.
The towers are used for residential occupation
The docks surrounding the cities
are used for marine explorations and redevelopment
in other words, to restore the reefs, the damaged reefs.
The unit in the center is used for hydroponic gardens
growing of food without soil.
Now, many of the cities in the sea will have docking facilities for marine vehicles
That means it'll be like an underwater bus
that would take people around to visit the different areas.
You'll be able get a very good picture of the ocean and how we harness it
and use it and preserve it and protect it
so that future generations might enjoy the oceans, also.
This projects above one of the cities under the sea with an observation platform
and a landing platform on the upper deck.
At the sea level there'll be a floating dock system
that moves with the tide, up and down so boats can dock
Then you enter an elevator shaft,
which goes to an airlock. It takes you to the bottom of the sea, or the sea bed.
The sea bed is used for observation
of reefs and marine life
Not only do they monitor the reefs: they restore the reefs and change them,
rebuild them or redesign them
Some day we will be able to control the shape, configuration of reefs,
so they can support more marine life.
I think humans can add to nature
and improve it considerably.
What will that mean?
It'll mean a higher standard of living for all people.
When he draws these buildings and designs
he thinks about how they go together, how they're manufactured
Some of the drawings I have seen have gone back about 60 years,
and they're just beginning to talk about some of these things now as being a possibility.
You know, in the past people would say,
"You'd never be able to get to the moon, not in a thousand years!"
And they'd look up the next day and they`re going to the moon
You know, when I first met Jacque 25 years ago and he would
talk to some people about certain inventions,
they'd say, "You won't see that... not in a thousand years!"
And, ten years later, they'd come out with in the covers of Popular Science
The whole basis of the technology is to maintain a high standard of living.
Technology is not worth anything unless it improves people's lives
Today, people are afraid of science and technology,
because it's so abusive today in so many ways.
But it's not science, and it's not the technology we should be wary of
it's the abuse and the misuse of science
You can take a rocket, and you can shoot it into space and explore outer space
Or you can take it and use it as a bomb and destroy another country
It's really the inanimate object, really, is in our hands,
and what we do with it.
-Science is really the ability to predict the next most probable.
That's what the real meaning of science is
gaining the ability to predict the next most probable.
When we talk about science, we're talking about a method of looking at a situation
a method of evaluation
that differs from the opinionated system
"If you ask me, I'll tell you!"
The scientific method has no special connection to truth
It really has a better way of looking at things
than the earlier systems,
where everything was attributed to god or demons.
- This is where we get into applying the scientific method to society.
- Yes.
Now, this is not in a book yet.
The scientific method applied to society
is something people don't think about much.
But if you want to know about where the answers may lie,
it is in the application of the methods of science,
with human concern and environmental concern
The Future by Design refers to the application of the methods of science
Not scientists; the methods of science to the social system.
Naturally, even the methods of science under go change
And, as they change, so would the future
If we use the scientific method throughout the world
the probability of war drops to zero
the probability of human suffering disappears
deprivation, poverty, crime....
All those things tend to disappear,
because there's no basis for it.
Jacque spent a lot of time, before studying people,
he started studying how animals behave
and how to change the behavior of animals or predict the behavior of animals,
and came to the conclusion that it's really the environment
that changes behavior and enables us to behave the way we do.
We're not born with prejudice and bigotry and anger and greed
it's really generated and nurtured by the environment that we live in.
That's why we change that unless you change your environment and change your experiences,
we'll get the same same aberrant behavior within people
unless the environment is changed.
-Any culture in the world today
tries to educate people
so they'll serve a function in that particular culture
In other words, if you're brought up in a Nazi culture,
the flag waving and the Swastika are the kinds of things they put forth.
If you're brought up in a primitive tribe,
handling the javelin and the bow and arrow will be the kind of thing that you will be exposed to
So people are conditioned to serve
the interests of an established culture
Who does that to us?
The owners of the institutions!
The establishment
So they give us a value system that would support existing structures,
whether it be religious, non-religious, industrial, military
When children say, you know, "Daddy, what's the greatest country in the world?"
"Of course our country is the greatest country in the world"
"Which god is the right god, Daddy?"
"Our god! All the other gods are false gods."
So picture this:
a Roman family taking its kids to see
the Christians being fed to the lions.
And the kids are watching
"Dad, can we come next week to see Christians being fed to lions?"
Are these kids sick? No!
Their value system's distorted.
So, I'm strictly concerned with the environment that people are reared in, raised in
And if that environment is altered, so will behavior be altered
You reorient the environment,
and that in turn reorients people
but if you reorient people without touching the environment
it'll slip back.
So, when you try to think about the future, remember this:
the process with which you think about things is based upon indoctrination,
what you're given by your society
So your range of thought is limited
by the dominant values of your society
So, learning to be flexible in values takes a long time.
And, in talking to kids, when I was very young, I had to be very patient with them
if I were to make any progress
I talked about the concept of god:
your concept of god, my concept of god, and his concept of god,
so different. I wonder what god is really like,
or if there is a god for that matter
And why would god permit war and disease if he's all-loving?
It didn't make sense to me... too many clashes
So, I questioned that
Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of god
But then, reading about the history and evolution of gods,
there were many different gods
the god of war, the god of peace, the god of love
which was more like the people that invented them
They behaved, they got angry, they made sacrifices,
they created floods when they didn't like the way things were going
and this did not come through as superior intelligence.
Primitive people (going back in time), when they saw lightning
they thought that the deity was angry
Why else would it not occur?
When a hurricane swept the land they got rid of certain people in their tribe
as a sacrifice, hoping that the gods would not produce a second hurricane;
however, if it did occur again,
then they sacrificed some of the younger people
Rarely would the chief sacrifice himself
But he's always got a line of people, ready to be sacrificed
So you have that problems with human beigns
Anything that occurs beyond their comprehension they have to invent an excuse for
they have to create gods and demons to account for things,
because people come to the leadership of that community
No matter how primitive the tribe
they say, "How come bad wind blow people off island?"
The guy says, "You not behave good!
You not make not enough contribution to volcano!
Throw your brother-in-law into volcano, maybe it doesn't erupt then."
So, if you throw your brother-in-law into the volcano, and it still erupts,
you have to throw your sister-in-law in
So you get metaphysics. You get religion. You get superstition
"Knock wood"
Or you wear a rabbit's foot. Just remember that the rabbit had four of them; didn't do him any good.
So, on the down the line, superstition prevails wherever ignorance prevails
Myth is a way of saying to the little guy working out there in the field
when he says: "What does all this amount to? I never seem to be getting anywhere."
"When you kick the bucket everything is there for you
If you don't get it in this life you'll get it in the next if you remain good"
The amount of superstition that a culture can absorb
would be directly proportionate to the amount of information people have
So, in the future, with adequate supply of information
more than that which is given today, considerably more! you don't have,
"Knock wood. Today's my lucky day. When you're number's up, it's up." All that... will disappear in the future.
I look at this as everything he's doing as being the utmost in spirituality
Instead of looking for a better world later after you die,
it's really building the types of things that all religious teachings talk about here on Earth.
We don't have to wait 'til we die for that
We can confront our problems today,
and not wait for the Messiah to come
with the white robe and change things,
or not wait 'til we all go to heaven at a certain time
or those believers that go to heaven at a certain time
We can deal with the problems today
For instance, in a religion they put things on the will of god
if there's an accident it's the will of god
And it stops you from thinking. It stops you from being innovative
It stops you from thinking about, "Well, how do we redesign the transportation system
so we don't have those problems anymore?"
So, he's worked with priests, and he's worked with religious people
and kind of expanded their horizons a bit so they can be more creative
They look at the environment that shapes people's behavior,
and they don't call them 'good' or 'bad' anymore
They think about shaping the environment
to get more constructive behavior.
If people were to ask me to redesign the world and the way people live,
first thing I would have to do is to conduct a survey
to find out how much we have,
how much water we have, how many, how much people we have, how much arable land area.
After I know that then I can base the parameters of design
on what we have
What you really need is an understanding of the Earth's resources
by agronomists, geologists, geophysicists: people who study the Earth
They don't give you their opinion. They say,
"There's more life in the Antarctic."
That's not an opinion. That's a finding.
So, in the future, no more opinions
"Do you have information in this area?" "No, I don't."
"Good! Here's where you might get it." Or, "Here's how you might go about finding out." You know.
So I'm saying, "All people need clean air, clean water, arable land
and a good relationship of language."
So, I'm not superimposing Fresco's concepts
I'm using the Earth as the measure
In other words, we have to live in accordance with the carrying capacity of the Earth
- Does that make sense? - Yes, sir, it does.
I keep wondering about how drastic a social change this is
and how totally different our world would be
- And, yeah, how do you get - from here to there?
- people to accept it, yeah. - Okay, here's how we do it.
Eventually, all decision-making will be transferred to machines.
At first, people say,"Well, now, I dunno' that I'd like machines making decisions"
First of all, that's what a scale does
If you go to a butcher shop the butcher says, "The chicken weighs six pounds." Since you're buying it,
you say, "That doesn't look like six pounds to me!"
So you grab it and say, "I think it weighs about four."
`cause your tend to think that weighs less
Then the scale came in, and we assigned decision making to the scale.
- Is that right? - Yes, sir.
- So, so do pilots
When they fly, "I think I'm a mile and a half high."
They look at an instrument, and it tells them they're 4,203 feet off the ground
So, that is decision made by machine
because the decision-making by the machine is far more accurate
Now, the question normal people ask is,
"Yes, but can machine be smarter than the designer?"
Well, I know a little guy that designed a machine to pick up a freight
train and empty it. Now, he can't do that!
Machines are always faster than the designer
You ever see a coke bottle machine move on the line?
The designer, he can't move those bottles
So, what is happening in our society?
We are automating more and more decision-making
and assigning it to machines
Picture a department of agriculture as a setup of computers
with electrical wiring into the soil... like that
So, if the water table drops, that pumps water out there
If the nutrients change it pumps nutrients
You don't need a guy out there saying,
"Mr. President, we have a drought out here!"
And the President says:"How bad is it?"
"Well, there are 5,000 homeless, and in the next three days there'll be 15,000 homeless."
So, the President says, "Hmm." So he flies over, and he says, "Yes, you do have a drought
So what?!"
When you connect up the country all the computers
to production, distribution, agriculture
you have a nervous system which maintains dynamic equilibrium
in production and distribution of goods and services, without money
The government is right above your head there if you can turn around to see it
it looks like the globe
That globe there makes all the decisions, because it's connected!
We have satellites around the Earth that project a hologram,
a virtual image of the Earth
So you're looking at the real Earth, in real time
So you walk over to the image screens, and you talk
You say, "How many planes are in the air at this instant?"
The computer will hit a laser spot all over the world and tell you, "7,320."
Every plane in the air, every hurricane, all the conditions all over the Earth: plant diseases...
No human can do that
So we don't need people in government, We need electronics
in the field, production, distribution, weather
so we can look, come at home and find out anything we want to know,
without opinions based on folk-say, or folksy ways.
The Future by Design is a self-regulated society
governed by a cybernated system
of supply and demand.
Political systems are replaced by tabulating the input of information from the general population,
and delivering goods and services accordingly.
The economic system is similarly based
upon the use of all available resources,
in meeting the needs of the entire culture.
When there's a depression or a dip in the economy, and a lot of people don't have money to buy things,
there are still goods out there, there's still the ability to produce them; there's still the resources; there's still the farms;
and people want to work and make things,
but they don't have the money, they can't buy things
So there's something terribly wrong out there,we have
a great deal of the Earth's population starving and suffering
And the resources are there; our ability to produce is there
our ingenuity is there
Yet, some people have a lot, and others don't have anything
And, today, that's really shameful with our technology
It's really very, very abusive and absurd,
because we have the technology today to produce abundance all over the world for everyone
People always ask, "How much will it cost to put up these new cities?"
Do we have the resources to do it?
That's the question, not, "How much does it cost?"
That's the old question during a monetary system
Money is an invention of convenience for purchasing goods and services
in a scarcity environment
If there's a scarcity, say, of water, it is prized,
and its price is high
If we find an abundant suddenly the earth opens up, and an abundant supply of fresh water fills every ravine,
then nobody cares
There's only a policeman in front of something that people have need for
and don't have access to, so you put a guard there
But if lemon trees or orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place,
you couldn't sell it.
Imagine, if you will, if you can, an island of 10,000 people,
with $10 billion on the island available
no resources, no arable land, no water, no fish
you have nothing
So what is the real value in the future?
Resources
Now, in a non-monetary based society, a resource-based society,
people have access to anything that they need,
somewhat like the public library.
They can go down and access a camera, or a bicycle, or a wristwatch
Anything that they need is available without a price tag
That would mean we must achieve a level of production, that's so high
that scarcity no longer exists
Many people wonder what would drive people
if they have access to all their needs, What would happen to incentive?
What will motivate people?
Or, something gained; what's the gain?
Although the gain is that materials are available,
what will motivate them on to do better than what they have?
Need
We will always lack
And the fact that we will always lack meaning
that we cannot achieve perfection,
we cannot achieve truly dynamic equilibrium
we will always be in some form of disequilibrium
With the elimination of scarcity the essential incentives change
toward problem solving, in general
When nations or groups of people do not have access to resources,
their behavior is difficult to manage
it becomes aberrant, they lose their mental equilibrium
they cannot arrive at appropriate conclusions
Once people are free, mentally,
of debt, obligation, servitude,
then they can seek new horizons
that they've never even dreamt possible before.
The core mechanism of democratic process in the Future by Design
is the use of public exhibition halls
With the exhibition hall, everyone has the opportunity to participate
in establishing the priorities with which the society is governed.
So, just like a world fair, to show you what's new, what is available,
you look around and say, "I'd like one of those,"
or, "I can use that sort of thing in my kitchen." Whatever it is
And then they always invite comment,
or something new comes up, "What do you think about it?
Do you feel it's efficient? Do you feel there's shortcomings?
Enter into your computer your point of view regarding this
So you have a built-in democracy
You have a participatory culture where all people participate
and that is in a constant process,
so that people will know up to the minute
what is coming out, what exists, what is available, what is not available.
In other words, there'll be many bulletins and many publications and visualizations
of what is needed
So, all the world's people will be informed constantly of what we don't know, what is needed badly,
and asking for suggestions and papers and ideas from everybody.
I just want to say this to you,
that all the marvels and wonders of technology can amount to nothing
unless it elevates humans to their highest potential
This is the aim of the Future by Design.
Jacque continues to invent everyday, to invent, to write, to work
He has a zest for life that keeps him going and keeps him working
And he's interested in things
He's interested in what happens out there and how this will play out and how it'll turn out,
while very much wanting to introduce this direction to the world; so that's his prime focus
And he does that in every way he can by
actually showing, it's not enough to just tell what the future will be like,
but just to show what people are missing
He keeps coming up with new ideas, new inventions, new designs; improves what he has,
represents them better, makes more models, makes more videos
He's relentless at trying to get these ideas out
I think he fears where society is now. It's not acceptable to him
But, instead of just complaining, he wants to propose an alternative.
When people say, "Are you trying to propose a perfect society,"
I have no notions of a perfect society. I don't know what that means.
I know we can do much better than what we've got
I'm no Utopian
I'm not a humanist who would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony
I know that, if we don't live that way, we'll kill each other and destroy the Earth.
We're a crude form of life right now in the evolutionary stages
Our civilization... really we're not even civilized yet
So, after the world joins together,
and we are through with military systems, prisons, torture, hunger, poverty, deprivation
when that is gone
that'll be the beginning of the civilized world
We are not there yet.
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