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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.

Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
Architect
Designer
Engineer
Futurist
Inventor
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Jacques загадочник Fresco
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Society
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Today
Live
Incompetency
Maintained
Afraid

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You don't need to get rid of religion you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.
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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 all things keep changing, how can you become sane?
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The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.
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You really don't want a job. What you want is access to those things you'd like to have.
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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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The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources?
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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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We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.
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There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.
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Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?
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If there's a group like Amish people, that want to live their own lifestyle – they don't want to live in our city – they want to live out in the country, with their own projects. We’ll put up the buildings for them, design the buildings for them, design the food production systems for them – if they want us to. But we don’t control them.
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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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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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We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
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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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We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?
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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.
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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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