Jacque Fresco is an industrial designer and social engineer, author, lecturer, futurist, inventor, and the creator of The Venus Project. Fresco has worked as both designer and inventor in a wide range of fields spanning from bio-medical innovations to totally integrated social systems. I had heard about this guy before on Talk Radio but was re-introduced to his views when I had watched a documentary at home called "Zeitgeist Addendum" by Peter Joseph (viewable for free if you searched for it on YouTube). Mr Fresco believes his ideas would maximally benefit the greatest number of people and he states some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the Great Depression.
His views in summary: "Poverty is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's profit-driven economic system. The progression of technology, if it were carried on independent of its profitability, would make more resources available to more people. This new-found abundance of resources would reduce the human tendency toward independence, corruption and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other."
In the mid-1970s, he started The Venus Project and the non-profit organization Future by Design together with Roxanne Meadows (seen in the picture above together), and that reflects the culmination of Fresco’s life work. To this day he writes and lectures extensively on subjects ranging from the holistic design of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management and advanced automation, focusing on the benefits it will bring to society.
My Conclusion: I came to understand that his views are rooted in something called "natural resource economics" which is a system designed to better understand the role of natural resources in the economy in order to develop more sustainable methods of managing those resources to ensure their availability to future generations.
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