hi dear mr fresco first i want to congratulate about all your forces and your ideas adn second y want to work wih you we are started to create a new perspective we are musician and we wish work wiht you we are from mexico but we have a increible ideas about it

we hope you answer thank you

I am very honored to be able to be in touch with minds such as yours. I would like to be as active in this movement and will keep educating people concerning what is real! The time is NOW and i’m sure your aware of how deep individuals minds or buried underneath all the illusions.

Dear Mr. Fresco,
I am quite pleased that you have done the things I’ve seen so far (Zeitgeist Project, Designing the Future, etc.,). I wonder who else is involved in these things with you. Is there a team? And is there a way for you to draw upon the many experiences and insights that are outside this group?
Again, thank you for your amazing vision and work.
Bruce Baumrucker, Florence, Oregon

Fantastic! The Overhall design, based upon biospherical thinking and a tune to human emotions and energies is without a doubt the way forward.
The concepts that you use are built upon rational,human,thoughts.And your designs patterns for implimentations Are what soem would regard as the utopian pathway.
I would give all my time to push forward with these ideals to become a reality.I may not see them in my life but for my childrens children it would be worth all blood swaet and tears.
Send me as much information as you can and tell me what you would require of me..
Julian UK.

Dear Jacque The Russian editorship office of Esquire Magazine appeals
to the most profound thinkers of Present Time with the only short, but
in the same time difficult question “By what would everything be
changed?”

Please, tell our Russian readers what is your version of the reply to
the question “By what would everything be changed?”

- May everything be changed at once or there should be any gradual
transition from one social-cultural and economic structure into
another?

- You say that the humanity must refuse the monetary system, but how
to do it in practice?

- Please explain, how to start installation of renewable energy
systems or building magnetic levitation train systems and tunnels for
them under a new Resource-Based Economy? Do you think people would
work for just an idea not for money?

- You say that in the future there won’t be any prisons, jurisprudence
as a science of law and everybody will have equal rights and
opportunities… Do I understand you rightly if I say that you mean
that all the human beings are absolutely equal and you exclude any
cast system, any elite social layers in the future condition of
sufficiency and prosperity?

- In the last “ZEITGEIST” movie you affirm that humanity must refuse
from existing politic and economic systems because they are an
obstacle, they impede an implementation and adoption of new
technologies and new universal social and spiritual values. But you
have talked about that matter since 70’s of the past century, haven’t
you? Before you, many thinkers such as Pier-Joseph PROUDHON etc.
hinted at an injustice in the existing social and economic structure
in the meaning of way of life. But what happened with their ideas?
Aren’t you afraid of perversion and distortion of your initial idea or
that everything bad thing will exist on the same basis but with a new
facade like a disease going deeply inside the body? For example in
Russia we have’ had the particular social experiment where the ideas
of socialism were distorted and we had a system of totalitarianism
with the same bad factors like modern capitalism.

- How do you feel the real situation and its development in the
nearest future in a global sense? How much time do we have in order
to conscious of the necessity for immediate changes and then realize
them in life? By other words, how much time does the humanity have to
reach the fatal point of non returning. What would be next with
humanity when we cross that line where that point is reached?

- You say that America moves to the fascism but what do you think
about Russia? Where does Russia move now? What role does Russia play
in the global arena for now time in fact?

- And what role may Russia play in the new Resource-Based Economy in
your opinion?

hello. i am very supportive about your ideas. i only have one question about this new sistem. when the population start to increase, it whould be the space and resources necessary to the population? how? thank you i really admire you

Marisa Tristao

Mark :
Dear Jacque The Russian editorship office of Esquire Magazine appeals
to the most profound thinkers of Present Time with the only short, but
in the same time difficult question “By what would everything be
changed?”
Please, tell our Russian readers what is your version of the reply to

I found a way to produce electricity from water without chemical reaction. Someone called it electrokinetic effects of fluids and patented a different device that works almost like mine. I don’t want to patent it because I don’t want money. All I want is people that understand and make experiments like me to reach higher results. The sequence of the materials I use is this: TIN(metal)-GRAPHITE-WATER-SILICON-TIN-GRAPHITE-WATER-SILICON … etcetera.I used glasses to make the first experiments. Every glass contains two electrodes, one is a graphite from a pencil and the other is a piece of monocrystalline silicon, and water .I join the silicon piece to the graphite of the other glass with tin, the one you use to sold wires. Every glass gives me from 0.2 to 0.6 volts.So I made smaller cells because it seems that the size of the elements is not important for the voltage. The amperage is very low but both the voltage and the amperage increase with the amount of the cells. I closed the cells so water can’t evaporate. Now it works for more than one month. I connected two capacitors to discharge them from time to time.

If you have a chance you can make a bigger generator working on water.Please feel free to contact me at stefan.danov@yahoo.it or if you use skype look for “steblizz”.
the question “By what would everything be changed?”
- May everything be changed at once or there should be any gradual
transition from one social-cultural and economic structure into
another?
- You say that the humanity must refuse the monetary system, but how
to do it in practice?
- Please explain, how to start installation of renewable energy
systems or building magnetic levitation train systems and tunnels for
them under a new Resource-Based Economy? Do you think people would
work for just an idea not for money?
- You say that in the future there won’t be any prisons, jurisprudence
as a science of law and everybody will have equal rights and
opportunities… Do I understand you rightly if I say that you mean
that all the human beings are absolutely equal and you exclude any
cast system, any elite social layers in the future condition of
sufficiency and prosperity?
- In the last “ZEITGEIST” movie you affirm that humanity must refuse
from existing politic and economic systems because they are an
obstacle, they impede an implementation and adoption of new
technologies and new universal social and spiritual values. But you
have talked about that matter since 70’s of the past century, haven’t
you? Before you, many thinkers such as Pier-Joseph PROUDHON etc.
hinted at an injustice in the existing social and economic structure
in the meaning of way of life. But what happened with their ideas?
Aren’t you afraid of perversion and distortion of your initial idea or
that everything bad thing will exist on the same basis but with a new
facade like a disease going deeply inside the body? For example in
Russia we have’ had the particular social experiment where the ideas
of socialism were distorted and we had a system of totalitarianism
with the same bad factors like modern capitalism.
- How do you feel the real situation and its development in the
nearest future in a global sense? How much time do we have in order
to conscious of the necessity for immediate changes and then realize
them in life? By other words, how much time does the humanity have to
reach the fatal point of non returning. What would be next with
humanity when we cross that line where that point is reached?
- You say that America moves to the fascism but what do you think
about Russia? Where does Russia move now? What role does Russia play
in the global arena for now time in fact?
- And what role may Russia play in the new Resource-Based Economy in
your opinion?

Mark :
Dear Jacque The Russian editorship office of Esquire Magazine appeals
to the most profound thinkers of Present Time with the only short, but
in the same time difficult question “By what would everything be
changed?”
Please, tell our Russian readers what is your version of the reply to
the question “By what would everything be changed?”
- May everything be changed at once or there should be any gradual
transition from one social-cultural and economic structure into
another?
- You say that the humanity must refuse the monetary system, but how
to do it in practice?
- Please explain, how to start installation of renewable energy
systems or building magnetic levitation train systems and tunnels for
them under a new Resource-Based Economy? Do you think people would
work for just an idea not for money?
- You say that in the future there won’t be any prisons, jurisprudence
as a science of law and everybody will have equal rights and
opportunities… Do I understand you rightly if I say that you mean
that all the human beings are absolutely equal and you exclude any
cast system, any elite social layers in the future condition of
sufficiency and prosperity?
- In the last “ZEITGEIST” movie you affirm that humanity must refuse
from existing politic and economic systems because they are an
obstacle, they impede an implementation and adoption of new
technologies and new universal social and spiritual values. But you
have talked about that matter since 70’s of the past century, haven’t
you? Before you, many thinkers such as Pier-Joseph PROUDHON etc.
hinted at an injustice in the existing social and economic structure
in the meaning of way of life. But what happened with their ideas?
Aren’t you afraid of perversion and distortion of your initial idea or
that everything bad thing will exist on the same basis but with a new
facade like a disease going deeply inside the body? For example in
Russia we have’ had the particular social experiment where the ideas
of socialism were distorted and we had a system of totalitarianism
with the same bad factors like modern capitalism.
- How do you feel the real situation and its development in the
nearest future in a global sense? How much time do we have in order
to conscious of the necessity for immediate changes and then realize
them in life? By other words, how much time does the humanity have to
reach the fatal point of non returning. What would be next with
humanity when we cross that line where that point is reached?
- You say that America moves to the fascism but what do you think
about Russia? Where does Russia move now? What role does Russia play
in the global arena for now time in fact?
- And what role may Russia play in the new Resource-Based Economy in
your opinion?

I found a way to produce electricity from water without chemical reaction. Someone called it electrokinetic effects of fluids and patented a different device that works almost like mine. I don’t want to patent it because I don’t want money. All I want is people that understand and make experiments like me to reach higher results. The sequence of the materials I use is this: TIN(metal)-GRAPHITE-WATER-SILICON-TIN-GRAPHITE-WATER-SILICON … etcetera.I used glasses to make the first experiments. Every glass contains two electrodes, one is a graphite from a pencil and the other is a piece of monocrystalline silicon, and water .I join the silicon piece to the graphite of the other glass with tin, the one you use to sold wires. Every glass gives me from 0.2 to 0.6 volts.So I made smaller cells because it seems that the size of the elements is not important for the voltage. The amperage is very low but both the voltage and the amperage increase with the amount of the cells. I closed the cells so water can’t evaporate. Now it works for more than one month. I connected two capacitors to discharge them from time to time.

If you have a chance you can make a bigger generator working on water.Please feel free to contact me at stefan.danov@yahoo.it or if you use skype look for “steblizz”.

Dear Jaque,
Has it not always been the case that humanity has defined itself through adversity and struggle?, and if in all our hearts we desire peace and prosperity and a future for generations to come..the elite set us against ourselves..is there such a thing as a bloodless revolution? how can this be achieved? The venus project is fascinating and deserving of global exposure…but how will this society be governed? no matter how much they have people always want more..who will make the rules?

@Mark

You can never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
~Buckminster Fuller~

I am curious, does the Venus Project have a renewable energy system in operation? I greatly appreciate the form of this architecture and will continue to pay close attention as well as refer the Project to many. jb

Received 5 dvds today and one Extra “DESIGNING THE FUTURE” with a sticky note written,- A GIFT
Thank you so much Love gifts like this one!
Makes me feel good

I’ve been trying to read everything related with The Venus Project, but the links are broken.

to John Greene those are good questions and pionts I am not jaque but I think I have some good answers. from the knowledge I have the only succesfull revalutions have been bloodless. causing someone to act a sertain way through fear and force is terrorism.you have to stop contributing to the elite to do this you must find a way to have a self energizing home, grow youre own food, get an electric vehical or in other words try to spend the least amount of money this is the bloodless revolt against the elite .have you ever haerd the expresion rules are made to be broken lots of people have this idea. plus the fact that rules are just made becaus no one lookes for a solution. most people cause crimes for money so not having a currency solves that problem. but the truth is there will always and forever be problems that need to be solved and rules, laws, police, and war stunts problem solving it infact causes more problems. i hope I have answered youre questions if you or others have questions abuot my answers let me know. somthing I have always lived by is to always question everything and my favorite quote from zietgiest “when the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace

lisa fraggos :I am very honored to be able to be in touch with minds such as yours. I would like to be as active in this movement and will keep educating people concerning what is real! The time is NOW and i’m sure your aware of how deep individuals minds or buried underneath all the illusions.

WELL SAID LISA

Dear All
The Venus project is a noble way to change the society. It minimises greed, corruption and exc. It would improve lives overall in all societys. It all sounds very nice…
But I cant see how this Resource-Based Economy can come to be. The transfer over is so dramatic that the only thing that could happen is chaos and alot of problems. Image there would be no money.. Would everyone be voulenteers?
People would still have too work minimal hours in supporting the society. Jobs they would not like to do…
How is your plan changing over to the Resource-Based Economy??
The only thing I have seen is the complete new society, how would you make the transfer, without implementing chaos?
Best of luck, Hawk

Dear Mr. Fresco, I am fascinated by your work and you’ve decided to make known your thoughts and suggestions, and everything I used to have an opportunity that you may be aware. It’s Facebook, where I have built a group that bears the name The Venus Project. I hope it will help and make this known to project. So far we have about 90 members and rising daily. The members come from all sorts of directions and belong to many nations.
Thus, I remain always at your service, your Harald Riek

What implications should be drawn from the for sale sign for the Venus, FL property?

Hello
My name is Ola. I live in Poland. I thought about idea of living without money some time ago. And tried to explain it to my husband.
I never heard about You before. That is great, that there is so many people thinking like me. I hope, this world will come some day. Reading about your work is like seeing my stupid dreams .
Thanks.
Sorry for my English

Hello Mr. Jacque,

Your insight into the causes of today’s problems are intriguing. I commend your effort thus far but still wonder how possible and workable it will be. Considering the extent to which the present order has gone, the powers in control may not subscribe to your proposal. Apart from a radical rejuvination of the mentality of the low class, what else is needed for your proposed change?

I deeply respect Mr. Fresco.

Love what you people are doing. In movie you did not even mention the massive energy loss from methane that escapes from our sewers. Process human waste in a gas generator and use it to run an electric generator. This also produces pathogen free fertilizer. The transition to resource based economy will happen when world bank loans interest free money to third world to pay off their debts. The same thing may be effected if US citizens are allowed to pay their doctors with IOUs which doctors cash at banks and banks record money owed to the US by the patient who gets to make a payment at tax time. The IOUs would be interest free money.

A “Quest Most Noble” it definitely project being, alas it bound to fail if present human natures persist. But not to worry as Ultimate Paradigm Shift of Attitude will definitely take place worldwide that will change our present course of human history towards one where we worldwide being HUMANITY ALL. It be Sciences of Spirituality that which humans of present era not know or presently wills think it “Bullshit”, thinking science is “Golden”. Ah how little people do know so truth of their own individual reality, let alone collective universal reality in present age of “MAN”.

Hi there,

I’ve blogged about your project on my site which is looking at selfless giving as a way forward. Take a look and let me know what you think:

http://selflessgiving.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-resourcebased-economy

Thanks

James

To all at Venus Project,

I just finished watching your ZEITGEIST II Addendum on YOUTUBE and enjoyed it very much.

I currently work with the US Military (as a civilian), in the heart of the inefficient society you outline as the antithesis to what you’re proposing here. I’m been called enigmatic, however, since I’m also a writer and musician, so (through those experiences) know I have something to offer a society such as you outline (music, poetry and creativity).

Ergo, this short note to let you know that I’ll be reading through your blogs, watching your videos and so forth, as well as communicating with folks here to see what might be available for me to contribute.

Ciao for now!

@Stefan Danov
I think the experience of the Russian people is very important as it was an attempt to try a better distribution of resources. The difference with the Venus Project is what we want to achieve is a different society. We will need to study the possibilities one by one, I have been listening to Peter Joseph radio shows at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/search/peter-joseph/ In listening to the program and the questions asked by the people one tries to reason with Fresco’s methodology and find the answers. They are discussing all about the transition period. You should try to participate in that program. I believe your experience will help build up our knowledge.

A great idea and truly a great leap forward form the current insanely competitive world, but i still hold some doubts..
(a)How do the computers know how best to allocate resources? So(and probably ‘too’) much depends on them.
(b)We still live in a world of scarcity. Any decision is bound to not go down well with everyone. How can this be managed?
(c)Has the concept of a resource based economy been tested on a small scale to prove it works?

Please answer me back..

Dear Mr. Fresco i am truly inspired by your works and ideas, it is nice to know that someone cares about the earth we inhabit and preserving our presence here. i have written many school papers on you and the Venus Project i am a student in Trinidad and Tobago currently studying psychology and would like to know know if you have any plans about expanding your knowledge and views to critical thinkers, youth such as myself who will be the ones responsible in part for making a change

Dear Mr. Fresco, I find your ideas interesting and appealing, however I have a few questions:
1. Who will maintain the computers?
2. Will humans provide any services, and if so, why would they choose to do so with no reward?

Thank you
-Charli

Dear Sirs and Madams,

Thank God I found the Zeitgeist movie, and clips and interviews from Jaque Fresco. It has again given hope to the world, and in particular to our youth who had been stupified by the insanity of the current system – almost to the point of apathetic inertia.

Might I ask if there are any plans to try harness a resource very very close to home; VIZ the human brain. I understand that we may only be using 10% of its capacity. If we could establish that this were the case (or not), then we could either 1)focus on tapping into the potential as a first step to crossing over from the monetery system. Were we able to achieve this – then surely all our most complex problems would be more likely solved 2)Put the notion to bed, and work with what we have – working successfully within the boundaries of our average intelligence.

HI to anyone on Venus Porject,

I wish anyone on this planet to be rich, healthy, wealthy, happy and I wish the Venus Project one day comes to Albania. Here this project can be done successfully because the nature here offers anything and is wonderful place.

Best Regards

Dritan Saja

Tirane, Albania

Will the Venus Project come to the Netherlands?

Problems with the Venus Project.

While I like Fresco and I think he’s a talented architect and thinker, I think the reason why this whole thing seems so fuzzy and difficult to implement is that he hasn’t really planned anything at all. He’s made an abundance of sketches and 3D models envisioning the potential aesthetic and technical function of tomorrow’s society, but he hasn’t really clearly alluded to how the society will work. I understand he is only one man, but when you’re proposing a social change as big as this one, I think you really need to have a fairly clear and detailed picture as to what the social landscape that you are proposing is actually going to look like.

For example, saying that crime will disappear because there is no money, is simply not going to fly. There are many crimes such as murder (love, jealousy driven etc.), rape and child sex-abuse that have no ties to money but rather to the human mindset. If these crimes continue, which I greatly suspect they will do – with or without the presence of money – this will mean a law system will need to be in place. A law system means that enforcers are needed (you can’t possibly expect ordinary people to take murderers to prison/court etc); these again will be ‘police’ who will have the authority to take people in for a trial (meaning lawyers, judges etc.). Thus the need for control of wrong doers will lead to an authoritarian setup, which may unfortunately lead to the abuse of such powers, as it always has done. Albeit there will be potentially less opportunity in a world where rare resources and such incentives aren’t attainable for power holders, but these sorts of things need to be taken into account before you can even think about implementing such a large scale project. You can’t make such bold claims without lots of proof and detail; after all, you are trying to replace a society setup that has been in place for many centuries that has laws and regulations for everything we do based on how we could possibly abuse the system. I do not believe that without money humans will inherently stop causing conflict between each other (eg. love, jealousy can still drive people to do bad things).

Another problem is possession. I understand that Fresco is trying to eradicate the idea of owning something by making it so common that one need not worry about owning it – the “plenty more where that came from” type scenario. But with regards to art and hand-crafted things like wooden tables and so on, these things can’t be mass produced, and so inevitably people will have things that other people cannot have at the same time. This isn’t such a problem, it is the same as with our current society where people cannot always have what they want and they seem to deal with it, but this may bring about bartering. i.e. I’ll give you my painting for your wooden desk… This seems harmless enough. But what if this micro-trading system evolves? It’s reintroducing a ‘monetary’ system whereby you assign value to objects and trade accordingly. It will inevitably happen at some point.

This bartering system ties into drugs. Will drugs still be ‘illegal’? If so, you may get the development of an underground drug ring, where artefacts and no doubt sexual favours become the only viable ‘currency’, being perhaps the only two things that cannot be possessed like everything else in this new world. The adult industry will also perhaps be fuelled by this. As I am assuming that most people wouldn’t enter into the adult industry if not for the money incentives, in the new system, elements of today’s adult industry (I am referring to pornography and prostitution specifically) will perhaps become the currency for drugs (as we often here about today anyway). This black-market presence will also no doubt lead to other more heinous crimes such as murder, rape, child soliciting etc. Thus a new ‘resource’ will be born, one that is limited and potentially costly.

Another issue is resources. I like the idea of ‘everyone owns everything so there will be no fights’, but controls are still needed, monitoring of where resources are going so you don’t have some who tend to waste them on multiple fruitless ventures seems necessary. For example, scientists without money constraints may become a little careless. If they can just redo an experiment then why take as much care? I’ll make the analogy with today’s online gaming scene. The virtual world is unlimited, so you don’t care too much when you fail at something, because you can just do it again. I fear the same will happen in a world where resources are not weighted with value. Some sort of system needs to be in place to make sure people know how much they can use. Resources need to be appropriately rationed. I suspect a free-for-all system wont function. It could surely be done fairly, but it needs to be sorted.

Lastly – employment. Fresco seems to have concluded that people will work if given the opportunity to work on what they want. There are lazy people in this world. It’s a fact. Many of them do mundane jobs that this project wishes to replace with automation, fair enough, however what happens to these people? Do they suddenly want to become engineers, actors, athletes, scientists and artists? I say they sit at home and play video games. This society could spawn an abundance of ‘free loaders’ or more appropriately, people who just don’t do anything. Are we okay with that? Do we think everyone will be okay with that? How would one go about perhaps minimising this if we aren’t?

These are concepts that need to be addressed by Fresco or someone before this thing can even be considered. If we are to rebuild our world we need a detailed action plan. You need to consider the problems before you jump on how fun it all looks in the movie. This is why people look upon this idea and say it is idealistic and childish, because it has not been thought out in detail, it does currently seem like a bit of a fantasy. Law, work, drugs, small-scale trade, these are problems that I came up with in a single day after looking over this project and a few videos. I am sure there are more. And this is a problem. If anyone takes this project seriously then they need to create an action plan, not vague comments on how things will function. Details – a society is all about details, for that is where the big problems arise. I am not saying it isn’t possible, but if it comes to a point where the problems are all fairly similar to the one’s we have today (free loaders, crime, drugs, greed), then perhaps there is nothing to be gained from refacing our whole social system. I believe that is how the scientific (engineering) method should be implemented.

This could potentially be the largest project ever undertaken by man, our population is at its highest and implementation would be on the largest scale it has ever been. So if it wants to be successful, then it should be planned better than past systems such as communism etc. Currently I have not found evidence of such planning, I see the technical aspects which are all very impressive and seemingly quite possible given our current technical abilities (automation is common place these days etc), but what it really needs is a social system. The two things are as important as each other here but the later has been severely neglected and this simply will not do given the magnitude of the proposed change.

I understand the parallels between this proposed society and that of the age-old aborigine society in Australia (where I live), and other holistic societies from around the world, but even such societies as these have leaders or elders for guidance and governance. So perhaps lead can be taken from these societies in building a new society? I don’t have all the answers, but I do have a lot of questions that would sure need answering before I’d consider investing in this project. This is what my current intuition tells me.

Nice! I wish your success