Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco, is an American futurist and self-described social engineer. Fresco is self-taught and has worked in a variety of positions related to industrial design...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth13 March 1916
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
years return wages
During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back?
smart men rich
I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?
war intelligent technology
If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and the fellow human beings, and want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty, hunger, and the other problems that confront us today, the intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction – one that will serve all people, and not just a select few.
running vegetables availability
Whatever I decide will not work. It's what people want that will work. So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything else. What determines that is the availability of food. If we run out of vegetation due to floods or natural disasters, people will consume meat and if we run out of meat they will consume vegetables. I have no control over that. That would be up to people.
children intelligent culture
The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.
years agriculture world
Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.
people design scarcity
You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.
trying alternatives looks
We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.
responsibility long design
In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.
culture behavior customs
Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.
limitation
The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.
loyalty past civilization
Every system tries to get people to conform to support that system. That goes for communism, socialism, free enterprise, or any other civilization. If they don't demand loyalty, they can't keep their civilization together. So what they do is they teach things that would support an established system. We do not advocate an established system. TVP talks of an emergent system into state of change. So that we always prepare people for the next changes coming ahead. So that people will not cling to the past.
children teach thinker
Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
space together earth
We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.