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There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
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The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity.
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The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates. It’s first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of a given environment and maintaining a population in accordance of the Earth's resources, not Fresco's opinion.
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We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.
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If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
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Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.
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Laws do not stop crime they merely make noise about crime. They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'. Well, that doesn't do anything.
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Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways
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You have to take in the whole picture, and ask, What is it you want? What kind of world do you want? So, I have drawings of different cities. Those cities have an end goal they're not just cities. The end goal of those cities is to make things relevant to people that they respond to. There's no other way.
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We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.
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If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.
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If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love
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When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include the possibility of this development in our overall, social evolution we will witness the decline of our species
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It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.
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The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
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You don't see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we're free, wandering around. Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately. Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun, all the plants die. So we are connected.
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All the world's people should share all the world's resources.
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If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.
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The future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictator’s and elected officials’ ability to solve problems. It will likely take an economic catastrophe resulting in enormous human suffering to bring about true social change.
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