If vacationers of the next 50 years or so jam up Miami Interplanetary Spaceport trying to get passage on a rocket to the moon, they may have to think in small measure a slight, goateed newcomer to the city. He is Jacque Fresco, a consulting psychologist who has spent many of his 40 years delving into the problems of the weird world of the future. Fresco arrived in Miami from Los Angeles bearing photographs of rocket models for use in several science-fiction movies. Three of his models are pictured on this page in his version of a trip to the moon in the year 2006. For interspace travel, the psychologist-inventor leans to the popular conceptions of a rocket ship. And he has drawn up a saucer-like space station using power generated by the sun, which Fresco believes is as possible as the man-made satellite scheduled to be launched next year in Florida. The space station he visualizes would be a sort of atmospheric filling station, holding large drums of fuel, probably ‘atomic fuel’. Spaceships would be drawn to the station by magnetism, he says. In the airtight stations, life would be only a little more complicated than on earth. He does see a gravity problem, but thinks electrostatic-shoes are dissolution. Food problems would be relatively simple if the world comes to bio cell tissue cultivation of meat and vegetables within 50 years.
In the earthbound world of 2006, he foresees flying arrowheads, elevators that move horizontally as well as vertically and cars that need no drivers. Fresco sees no reason not to expect an entire new electronic world within the next 50 years. “After all, we never expected to see atomic energy in our time” he suggests. He pictures an America of tomorrow connected by cross-country canals which will solve irrigation, flood control and transportation problems. His city of the future features National centers with buildings radiating out from the circular main structure. He envisions elevators that run underground from building to building, then up and down to various levels. Automobiles he sees as teardrop shapes topped with transparent plastic which automatically turns dark in the glare of sunlight. A photo-electric effect, similar to the negative process, makes possible the color change. Fresco’s cars would have proximity control, making collisions impossible, but the allowing the door to slide open and the seat to swing out to meet the driver when he approaches. A bottom worn by the motorist send out a signal which sets the door mechanics interaction, Fresco explains. Claiming already to have perfected an invention four wing de-icing, fresco expects the same principle to eliminate the need for windshield wipers. His theory is a probe which reaches out to measure the electrical charge in raindrop our snowflake and automatically sets the wing or windshield to take the…would be kept…never strike the object thus protected. Fresco pictures a turbo-jet helicopter which incorporates the plane body with the propeller blades for more speed. While the whole copter rotates, the pilot sits stationary in a central control chamber on wheels.
Fresco moved to Miami with his wife and three-year-old son about seven months ago, to escape Los Angeles smog. For the past seven years he had operated his scientific research laboratories in Los Angeles. It was there that he built his models of the world of tomorrow. He also worked as a movie technical adviser during the time. A Los Angeles concern now is perfecting his invention of stereoptician photographs, which do not require glasses, he says. Claiming a doctor’s degree in psychology from Sierra State University of Los Angeles, Fresco was a corporal with the Air Force design development division at Wright Field for 18 months, during World War II. He became interested in electronics while conducting psychological and physiological studies of vision and the working of the human mind, he says.
From: "Roxanne Meadows"
To: "Scorcelletti, Marco"
Subject: cities
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:24:17 -0500
Marco,
We would do The Venus Project anywhere in the world. But it is really not just building a city we feel is the priority. We feel it is more important to point out a social direction of sanity to work towards. And the designs and technology show just how we can supply the highest standard of living and produce abundance in the shortest possible time. What we feel is most important though is to make a major motion picture or a series for TV. This we feel would get to the most amount of people in the shortest time possible. It would be entertaining but show people what is missing and just what kind of social arrangements are possible to considerably enhance their lives, upgrade their standard of living and protect and restore the environment. It would deal with many of the oppositions, show how we get from "here to there" and what it may really mean to be "civilized."
Ideally how we look at the building of a first city would be, along with a showcase of sustainability and efficiency, a planning center for those interested in helping expose and promote these ideas through all types of media and forums. It would also be the planning center for the next city. This of course, in this system, would take a lot of funding.
Lately another country has shown an interest in Jacque's city designs and we may be going there soon. If they do want to use our services and designs we may do this but the funding would go towards a major presentation of the direction and aims of The Venus Project. I don't believe this countries interest would be towards a planning center for a resource based economy, although if they used us for the planning of their theme park you can be assured that the ideas would be in there in some form as representing future possibilities.
From: "MARCO SCORCELLETTI"
To: "Roxanne Meadows"
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: cities
> Hi Roxanne,
>
> Thank you for your e-mail below. Would it be OK to
> reproduce it in the Forum?
>
> There is diversity of opinion in the Forum as to how
> best spread the message of this radical social reform.
>
> For the most part, however, members feel that building
> an initial First Community would be the best way to
> not only get people involved, but to have a concrete,
> living, breathing community that showcases the designs
> and technology, as much as possible, and also a
> resource based economy (at least an internal one).
>
> There seems to be consensus that a beautifully
> designed city complete with technology and all the
> social ideas discussed in TVP would have a powerful
> impact in our social landscape, and act as a magnet to
> attract all kinds of visitors to study it. Especially
> since there is nothing similar to this in our planet
> today.
>
> I think your idea of including a planning center for
> those interested in helping expose and promote these
> ideas through all types of media and forums, is
> excellent.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marco
From: "Roxanne Meadows"
To: "MARCO SCORCELLETTI"
Subject: Re: cities
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:43:30 -0500
Hi Marco,
Yes you can put that up on the Forum. We do feel that the film is far
more relevant to show a new value system and the advantages of a resource
based economy. The city would cause many problems at this time because
people have to be oriented to a different point of view and the film would
help accomplish this to some degree. Also a city of that kind would not be
secure in a monetary system, it could be taken over by the government if they
decide to or feel it is a threat. We are under the laws that the city
would be built in. It would be bombarded on all fronts from the religious
right to the established order and the media. Don't forget all established
systems tend to perpetuate themselves.
In today's system a better approach would be to build the city on a
remote island in the tropics, which would require less energy and a wider
range of freedom of operation.
We would not be against the approach of building a new city but it
would depend on the amount of restrictions imposed upon us.
This system really has to fail before implementing the seeds of a
resource based economy city. People have to loose confidence in their elected
officials before they even consider alternative systems. This wouldn't
necessary be true if it weren't for the fact that today most people are
not ready for change intellectually or emotionally. We are sorry about
that.
There are so many factors that would have to be well understood before
a city could be started. It is very necessary for the group, if they are
interested in being better informed on the operation of a resource
based economy, to come and visit with us as soon as possible.
You can post the above also Marco.
I sent out your books today by media rate so it may take a while.
Thanks very much for everything,
Roxanne
