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Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.

Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
Architect
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Engineer
Futurist
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Writer
Brooklyn
New York
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We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.
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There isn't anything that is said that 'someone' won't take issue with.
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We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
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We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.
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To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.
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It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.
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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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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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I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?
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The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.
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It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.
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Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.
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We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.
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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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If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
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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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The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking
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I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
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As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.
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Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.
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