Jacque Fresco
Extraordinary person, extraordinary vision, tenacity, talent, profesionalism and soul!
Jacque Fresco is one of my favourite authors. He was an American self-taught structural designer, architectural designer, concept artist, educator, and futurist. Fresco wrote and lectured his views of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management, cybernetic technology, advanced automation, and the role of science in society. He was also the co-founder and director of The Venus Project. As an outspoken social critic, Fresco advocated global implementation of a socioeconomic system of social cooperation, technological automation, and scientific methodology, which he refered to as a ‘resource-based economy’. He died on May 18th 2017 in Sebring, Florida, USA.
Professional Positions:
- 1916 - born in Brooklyn, New York
- 1939 - Aircraft Designer for the Northrop Division of Douglas Aircraft, Los Angeles, California
- 1939 - Design consultant to Gilbert McGill and Rotor Craft Helicopter Company, Los Angeles, California
- 1941 - Co-creator of Revel Plastics Company with Lou Glaser
- 1941-1944 - Designer in the Army Air Force Design and Development Unit, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio
- 1945-1955 - Director of Scientific Research Laboratories, Los Angeles, California
- 1945-1948 - Architectural Designer for Trend Homes, Inc., Los Angeles, California
- 1949 - Design Developer of three-dimensional projection systems for Paramount producer Jack Moss
- 1951-1952 - Research Engineer for Raymond De-Icer Corp., Los Angeles, California
- Colleague and work associate of Donald Powell Wilson of Los Angeles, the noted psychologist who wrote My Six Convicts
- Industrial Design Instructor at the Art Center School in Hollywood, California
- 1961 - Design Consultant for Major Realty Co. and Aluminum Co. of America (Alcoa)
- 1965-1966 - Design Developer of electronic devices for the Parkinson’s Institute of Miami
- 1967-1968 - Creator of Jacque Fresco Enterprises, Inc. for the development of prefabricated aluminum devices
- 1971-1994 - Founder and Director of Sociocyberneering, Inc., Miami, Florida, the forerunner to the Venus Project
- 1994-present - Founder of the Venus Project, Venus, Florida
Books Authored:
- 1969 - Looking Forward co-authored with Kenneth Keyes Jr., A.S. Barnes & Company
- 1977 - Introduction to Sociocyberneering, Sociocyberneering, Inc. (out of print)
- 1995 - The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture, Global Cybervisions *World Future Society best-seller
- 1997 - And The World Will Be One, (unpublished)
- 2002 - The Best That Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War, Global Cybervisions
- 2007 - Designing the Future, The Venus Project, Inc.
Videos Produced, Written, or Filmed:
- 1994 - The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows.
- 2001 - Welcome To The Future - produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows.
- 2002 - Cities In The Sea – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows.
- 2002 - Self-erecting Structures – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows.
- 2006 - Designing the Future – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows.
- 2012 - Paradise or Oblivion – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows.
Movies featured in:
- A major documentary entitled Future By Design, produced by Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning filmmaker, William Gazecki, was released in 2006 and outlined the life, designs, and philosophy of Mr. Fresco.
- The film Zeitgeist: Addendum featuring Mr. Fresco and The Venus Project produced by Musician and Film Maker Peter Joseph was released in 2008. A sequel to this film, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, was produced in 2011 featuring Mr. Fresco’s aims and directions.
- The documentary Paradise or Oblivion, produced by Roxanne Meadows, introduces the culmination of Jacque Fresco’s work, and viable solutions for the future.
- The Choice is Ours (2016) produced and directed by Roxanne Meadows and Joel Holt delves into how we acquire our behaviors and values, the environment that influences them today and the possibilities of a social system arrived at by Jacque Fresco which is designed to bring out the best in the human potential.
Inventions and Designs (many of these projects have been patented and have had wide commercial acceptance):
- 1939-1944 - Systems for noiseless and pollution free aircraft
- 1939-1944 - Boundary layer control and electrodynamic methods for aircraft control that dispenses with ailerons, elevators, rudders, and flaps
- 1945 - Experimental equipment for behavioral scientist, Keller Breland
- 1945 - Pre-fabricated industrial buildings for Houser Industrial Co.
- 1945-1948 - 12 variations of an aluminum “Trend Home”, a prefabricated house designed and developed for Mike Shore, Earl Muntz, Dan Rayes, and Harry Mayslish, of Trend Homes, Inc.
- 1946-1961 - Numerous components and systems for architectural construction
- 1947 - A new structural bracing system for aircraft wings, commissioned by the U.S. Air Force
- 1949 - Principle technique for three-dimensional x-ray units and for viewing three-dimensional film and television projection without the use of glasses, for Paramount producers Jack Moss and Irving Yergin, offered to Technicolor
- 1951-1952 - Electrostatic anti-icing system for Raymond De-Icer Co.
- 1961 - Prefabricated aluminum “Sandwich” houses for Major Realty Corporation in collaboration with Aluminum Company of America
- 1961 - A three-wheel low cost motor vehicle developed for Charles Stuart Motor Co. of Miami, consisting of only 32 parts
- 1965-1966 - Experimental electronic devices for The Parkinson’s Institute of Miami
- 1968 - Structural Y-Frame Shelters developed for Allan Sanford of The Sanford Company
- 1974 - Medical Devices and prosthetics for Dr. Irving Fixel
- 1974 - A second three-wheel low cost motor vehicle developed for A.D. Bessemer
- 1941-1968 - Various products, such as, the Volk Pipe, pre-fabricated extruded display cabinets, record reel dispenser for magnetic tapes, 180° hinge, vectograph displayer, enclosed sanitary sleeping chamber, ultraviolet germicidal lamp, serving tray, snap together lamp, high impact safety helmet, electronic surgical instruments for the medical field
- 1979-2007 - Designed and built a wide variety of reinforced concrete structures
“We pledge allegiance to the Environment and All the world’s people. World Unification, working towards the common good for ALL human beings, with no-one being subservient to anyone else. Without any kind of social stratification whether it be technical elitism, or any other kind of elitism eradicated from the face of the Earth. The State does nothing in a Resource based economy…because there is NO State! The System we advocate is not perfect, it’s just a lot better…”