Jacque Fresco - Future By Design Conference (1996)

Significant segments from Jacque Fresco's lecture at the Future By Design Conference. Jan. 20, 1996
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So let me deal what are the forces that they shape human behaviour.

There are a lot of people who are sincere.

Who realy do not know what the factors are that shaped our behaviour.

And so, if they think that some people are born gifted,

some people have the right genes,

or some people have criminal genes,

or some people have artistic genes.

Hanging it on the genes is a real easy way out.

The geneticists, all that you get on the genes,

the colour of the eyes, the skins, the type of tissue, the brain tissue you have, but no ideas.

Ideas come from culture.

If you can see this blackboard,

it will help a big deal, i don't know if this chalk is pretty visible,

there is a bad drawing of a side view of a person.

And when you look a person, looks out this way,

and you hold up a symbol,

that symbol holds on the back of the background.

And somebody, as the symbol falls in the back of the reptile as a distribution of light and shape.

And that goes into the brain, through the optic nerve,

with their about 7 million cables, as i know about this, into neurons.

And somebody says “cross”, and the word cross is associated with the image of cross.

Then you touch it. You know, the shape of it.

That goes in to the tactical memory, which brings tactical effect.

Some people have a memory linked by different systems, of linking 4000 links.

Some have 7 links.

Many full drawn develops (?) are nearly bankrupt.

Meaning they don't have enough associative systems to put things together.

So they see something happen, and they can’t account for, so they invented a word.

Instinct, they do it instinctively.

So, as to say, instead of saying, i have no idea of how fish, in front of the Orinoco river,

thousands of miles away, and swim up to that river, to this borning ground.

Without any other fish opening a map,

you say, here is where you go otherwise, this is the direction.

Nothing they know about of that, they know, they do it.

So we don’t want that sort that we invented the word instinct.

Instead of saying, the slightest idea how to get, that is the honest thing.

If your religion is shout their false witnesses.

Say, when something on a person appears to be artistic in a very young age,

because i guess they were born that way, just say i don’t know, by that way.

What is used to say there?

Now, when you are familiar with it,

people come out to me and say,

when you are an inventor, they use all kind of labels.

And they say you must be born that way.

And you have a type of brought that a medicine has.

And i said what that kind of mind is that? I was thinking it was a propeller.

So, if you really want to understand how the human brain works, you are going to try.

And they know that they can.

Communicate how will work.

Human beings can only look at something in terms of their background.

When somebody says, would you design a house for me?

I don't know what they mean by a house. Something like that. You see? That is a house.

And then you hang a little thing like this, you see? Something like that.

And then you have these some furniture. That is a house.

But this is not a house.

What is all over that? What is that? A dome?

And i don’t want to live in that. I don't want to live in a dome.

Your brain is in a dome, whether you like domes or not.

They are the strongest shape.

How many of you here have tried to cross and crush an egg?

How many here even tried to do that? It is extremely difficult. It is the most efficient shape.

If you don't like that, i don't like this.

You buy a wooden house, i don't care how much you paid for it,

it can burn to the ground in 20 minutes.

And then, the environmentalist, which are so concerned about the forest,

not cutting down the forest, most of them live in wooden houses.

So, if you live in a concrete house you have no termites,

you have no fire, no fire insurance.

And if you use this were light leadings

whether it be carbon fibers, fluid,

even in a earthquake that could split in half, it wouldn’t came down.

We set a judgement of something new with our old value systems.

The first automobile,

i don't know how many of you are familiar with this,

and it look a lot like this. The first automobile.

And you put some kind of seat it.

They didn't sell too well.

And there what about if they done a horse head on

and something to dream about, and it sold better.

See? I changed that fast.

How many have seen that automobile with a horse head almost like that?

All right, that one. People care about let go.

How, then, is that, that human being can invent things has a mind, like the wheel?

Who invented the wheel? And i never tell you that.

Obviously, when a tree falls over the park,

red wine was aligned and the trees are crossed this way.

If you came up to the

and makes it easier to roll out

No one invented the wheel, which was discovered this way.

Nobody ever invented anything.

And the human brain anything together, unless you have experience or a reference on.

There is no way that we know that any information to be into a brain,

that a certain culture no sight,

and your brain is clean it bring that here

so it done pretty here

sound mammy dadda

When you are going going to speak english

so people in there, you see?

And finally, they built opens and seas.

And taking an electrical engineer, of 75 years ago,

and put a transistor like circuit, when you say that.

That is, what do you think? You look at it? Nothing that compelled.

Because they never have seen that,

you came out, you can not say, ah transistor is like a circuit.

even if they look it under a microscope.

You wouldn't know what you were being looking at.

If you get a cannonball, a risk of what, what do you think?

I had an interesting way why does it keep time, or what it isn’t? You can’t think like that.

They have no associative memory for that.

And i would try to say something very significant,

and that is, the human beings, and let me say that about people, i’m talking about myself.

Can not think or reason.

These are illusions, losing our illusions bought by people in high places.

I’m talking about body and mind. Brain and mind. There is not such separation.

It is like a battery and it’s electricity. They are all product of the same thing.

The trees, the life around us.

We are all one gigantic interconnection.

The separation. When you teach a person to be a physiologist, you are making a jerk.

When a person ? to be an electrical engineer, is another jerk.

There is no such a thing as a scientist, and whatever he is.

There are people that are scientific inborn.

When it comes into human behaviour, they know nothing about it.

And literature they had very little information.

So, don’t look for scientists, for ?.

They are just as dumb as anyone else.

Have anyone else were brought up in a culture?

Again, that people learned scientific and human behaviour.

They can't be prepaired electronically and illiterate from that area.

So when you use a term in many universities that too many people are illiterate,

that there at the university i asked them some questions,

i said, are you familiar with health fact of culture cell, and they said no. And i said you’re right.

A lot of people are illiterate in different areas.

So stop looking for scientists for geisers,

they don't know anymore about the subject of social design than most of us.

The event of a bush said they want never go on.

Edison is supposed to be invented the camera, a movie camera,

and then they what do you think is a impressive affair.

So don't think that the experts have the answer.

They are only on their narrow discipline, working on a frame of reference.

Architects that goes to schools, dreams of new worlds, new types of buildings.

And when they get out of school, the schools then pushes them back to the mold.

A house looks like this, you see?

And you put all that ginger bread, and put on.

And put on all kind of craps on it, of reptiles,

and another aditional roof up there,

one hanging out that way

You talk about energy waste, whole society are value system,

our language belongs to visual past.

Our language today, that we learn, that we have thought in school,

makes it almost impossible, for us, to share ideas.

And hanging on was what i were talking about.

What intelligence is, is the ability to extract significance in a situation.

Any situation if you look at.

New and significant when you say,

i don't know enough about a subject to make a decision.

When somebody asked to a chase

a certain question how do i come in that question,

and he sit down and said

i honestly don't know the answer.

And everybody stand up and say

And that is very rare, there is not such things like intelligent life yet on earth.

Our society, all of our presidents,

i'm sorry to say this, of course, insuficience.

All the way back in time. They are very ignorant man.

People tell anybody getting a president,

of have to go in a society is not about sick.

Imagine a guy bieng a dentist, about a rock material

all his life looking up to that professional?

And they look up to that

looking at sick people and medicine

people in medicine would say your eyebrow

drop their sweat aside

purpose you think, they think there is a purpose in life.

And let me show you us share that an animal

somebody called maybe familiar

is a dinosaur with 3 horns.

and a heavy column like that

And the purpose of this carnivore

is to take away their head, all that.

The purpose of these horns are in mother animals

and that makes sense.

So, you find some narcissism on the wrong way.

Because he bother ways and see you don't understand that

and this is about their heads

and put that in a long way. What is that for?

And you don't get that easy then

all like that. What is that for?

You know, animals way this is growing so fast, that way.

this is the animal brought what is that for

someone that wanted outside

in every each way for that

and if you were born with noses in shoulder

and someone would look like and find the

and that so if you use upon the area that leg

because there is no intelligence in nature

every body would mean so well

excludes of an anatomy

and a wonderful anatomy wonderful that have two holes

and not with not a projection forward

is that when you fall you smash

you get all trouble breafing

children that have balls

back on their knee and they get more stable

you can fall on one

you don't like this intelligence

that is it what for let me tell you about what when you

look like from a scientific view

that has no purpose and no directions

Otherwise, if you are going to say the purpose of the nails is to scratch your (?),

before picking inside the (?).

And you would say the purpose of the sneeze is to infect all the people on the way.

Having a cough (?) infects the air all around the people.

So, hanging out the purpose on everything you find out as ridiculous.

We have brought up in the religion.

And the danger of religion is talk about purpose,

and the purpose of the sun is to enlight on the earth.

And most of you know you see the greatest thing about

this size fortune of sun

and the god forces a tremendous unit around there,

man unit out there wide little thing up here

so they engineering you know?

Hanging these 33 million out there miles away.

Now, let me say the purpose of the stars is that you can find your way at night.

And you know, the stars are millions and millions of light years away.

So they must be out there for some reason.

Then, the purpose of disease is to wipe on people.

You see? So, for example, what happens if the door human being

in a view most intelligent upon.

Who said that? Human beings?

It doesn't tell how chemicals, the whole universe,

all they follow a light

The invention of the rack, the torture

the man the man mostly the man

who destroyed the earth, dumped toxic materials into the oceans,

blasted the hell out of the other civilizations

year after year out there are lousy rapid.

It's a sick culture that will be not even able to maintain

remember or written about in the future.

And we are made the people future sick.

Don't look at yourself, man is the highest form of life,

the biggest idiot out of there.

If you look what he done for the earth

what he was done is tell a man even if he goes a church

and blast one another you know

your brothers which don't you remember?

Don’t you remember your price tag on the beach

man very limited energy

and we look in the early stages

and you see there is a designation without a brain

and you develop that and go to work whatever work on a lazy man

six wives and my plants lying out

Easily you would pick a (?).

But now, they turned into a (?).

The danger what about a religion that you would let it go.

Because unfortunately, there is too many statements saying

we shall always put a (?). That is dangerous.

We won’t have anything, we can work out anything,

if we put a mind into it

study and hard work instead of putting a simple answers.

have that way you know criminal type you know

Look at his head, you see?

And there is no criminal type, or anything.

And someone said to me, in our society, what we are going to do with the criminals?

I can not imagine criminal behaviour in this society.

Criminal behaviour, when you go into a supermarket today,

all take by the way by all traces upon analysis you see

and then open the carburate

What you mean by criminal behaviour? You see?

Now, criminal behaviour is, during the wary,

they made jeeps, and army carried very (?).

And a lot to turn over.

And why are they so tall,

and the cold grass but they did

this part of apart it is always in the same high

and it doens't help that many

the reason that they made that tall

is that they have 2 and half feet staying in loaded plankton

so if they ware an envy

they couldn't option that off

they have to buy new trucks and new products and that is what it is about.

That is what it is about.

and go for that is what it is about

about money, for oil, not about better living

improving the lifestyle of people,

they wont remember the residence of this country

it is restrict and there is no history

that shown that one man

grabbed land from another man and took things from another nation

that all history know people that are watching them

be king of this country

to be satisfied other religions before

but whatever we

freedom of religion and all we got there

is people that doesn't and we throw that out

and drive desert religions

and we slow on the bottom low religions on this one

and now we make hundreds of tributes

and throw most of them now do with the criminals

all true on this kind of society

all doctors saying there are out of tradition

that is raised that you don't live

in a position of differential advantage so i get criminals

qualified to this country

and others say if you want a better world your better world values nothing on the current system

it controls there

why would we climb in a society

because it is not in the hands of the others you see

if you want to move

a primitive civilization

you have to learn a new language

and a new language is

based upon physical reference, in other words,

if you have a river upon many years in this direction and then

you see you cut a that river both

in a way that land that shapes

differently that courses in the water

to extrapolate the future based on physical movement

it is a way to understand it takes a long time

that is hard to work

that is why prevails that is why

how can we get a world in a better place you say you have 3 years

let's tell you we have the answer

you got the damn forest

you know that is easy to understand

that is why ignorance prevails

because it is easier to understand

get the damn and got the tree away

and you got medical care for life

dental care for life, freedom for life

and the real answer is

taking the center by a city

we have a this 8 little domes

and any child can go there and say

i would like to check out a camera just like a library

and there is a camera what you want to do with it

well i love animals take pictures of animals bring the camera back

take care of the camera and get a bigger camera

with more equipment on it now

you say it is garbage another kid says i want to play the violin

they have a library they can check for violin

any kind of musical instrument

microscope, chemistry set, make it available

make available stealing bicycles hundreds of them,

so kids can check them out, they wont steal anything.

That is why they don't steal anything from the south seas.

I used to say that the neighbours when they lived there,

how can they fish and fruit and vegetables, people are all over the place.

You know, once you why would they put a price on it, they never invented money.

And the Polynesians, in the earlier days, had no word for work. Did you know that?

They played all day, right living that way,

watching out, they have a great time.

They have blue house, peace, fences growing underwater for me.

They didn’t work, i mean, they had no need to.

Imagine if it rain gold for 3 months.

You know, these 3 are full filled and you take all rings and throw them away.

So, they try to control people, money is a control device.

By paying you a minimal wage, you got in the mile you want in.

So, all of this is really part of a giant plan,

in which people manipulates certain variables, which control your behaviour.

The books you read, the school that you go to,

the price you were ahead the allegiance to the flag.

And then you get up and say

first i have to know a lot about other countries

their philosophy, how they are raised, perhaps i don't know how to do with that.

Why don't we pledge allegiance to the earth, and take a good care of it?

If you depend too much on machines, the technology,

wouldn't be a part of human being.

What will people do if you use all the machinery

you are talking about on your books, Jacque? What will people do?

Well, in very early days, i’m going to tell you, we can i'm going to exaggerate here

here would look like something like this.

A lot of humans that are used to push that around in a circle.

for pump water and do whatever they want to do

and in the battles life they should go there in the river,

and a structure on her shoulder,

where there are two pants and bring it up in the river and forth in a house

and since you go out

animal fat reduced

produce a oil for a lamp.

And you said, if you can coordinate that, men will ask all will people do?

And you down to the river, and did bring the water, you said, what would the women do?

Well, all she today is turn the light on.

Because all you want out of cold.

As she wants light, she don’t have to skin an animal,

taking the fat, reducing it, putting it in a lam, light it,

you process if you want it too.

Turns away like it is brighter or darker. So, all that.

All will people do if the automation comes in?

Imagine art centers, music centers, creative centers,

work states, it is below human beings.

Is boring, monotonous, and robs you the best years of your life.

Think of the young lady. 18 years old.

The best years of their life in some corporation.

When she retires, with pressures how would you put some resignations.

Here is how i mean about resignations.

There is an universal language that exists today,

that is understood and accepted by all nations. That is the blueprint.

I do what you can with a blueprint.

On electronics.

You open a blueprint on agriculture, you know what they are talking about.

You open a blueprint on architecture, and they know what you are talking about.

And you communicate. Agronomist

talking about god or religion, or politics, you are dead.

So the universal language is technology.

It is accepted all over the world

The beginning of scientific age will occur when all the nations joins together,

and utilize the earth for the benefit of all human beings, and sharing all (?).

There will be only constructing a direction of information,

and all information will be designed to enhance the lives of everyone.

That is the purpose of The Venus Project.

It has seven laws of wisdom

that says that everything we have learned on as the best we know up to now.

As you can improve things, as you know, keep changing.

And you language become changing more precise.

Children wont fight, and you see no debates.

Debates are dangerous, because you get up

if you get up with someone from the church

and debate something like around us.

So, if you come up with new ideas

you should give in 9 hours

because you do with the new ideas, you see?

So, in the future, instead of debate you have dialog.

And you sit down and discuss that.

I don’t know how not calling people names. It is disgusting.

And you shared some ideas for whatever it fits in.

Would you know thing that you get, and you tell certain things like

“I don’t think that will work”,

you say, the reason that it doesn't work can not support that kind of structure.

But people language you never see that

how many of you thought that

man on the moon in your lifetime

Very few people, you see?

So, if you ask majority of people what kind of government they want,

what do you think you are going to get? what they know.

Democracy is ridiculous, there is not such thing.

There is no free enterprise system, that is not free.

Before you open a legacy story you have to sell them

there is nothing free

how many of you come to say

free enterprise system is not free and then it started

some things to talk about The Venus Project comprehensively

the things that you wasted to talk

that they do know about the philosophy

under wire on other people

has brought up in a certain value

they can be brought up a more appropriate set of value system.

There are no such things that i say that is right or wrong,

in a more appropriate behaviour

and once the time goes on is much more appropriated.

So, we will change organisms,

and we learn to do things better

and if you saw some words in wisdom

you try to fix them, you see?

So, i'm talking about a whole new way of doing things.

There is something out there that is trying to make a life better than the older was.

and let's say something to better statement

all that you say is nice

there is a major problem on just redesigning our whole culture.

So that everyone grows and benefits.

There is no elitist class.

No technical class that tells you what to do, that how do you (?).

They give you the best tools they have, and they say take it from me by side.

Basically that is what The Venus Project is about.

Now i'm sure, i don't mean to hurt any of you,

and so terrible as history come on

that is anything you don't quite understand, i'm fine to answer questions.

And your opinion on welfare state. Welfare State?

That is part of our social evolution.

What, all countries you over

you know industry is

never was

the pain of industry of doing it righ

they use and also you won’t remember this,

during the world war 2,

you went to a movie by war bombs and bring faster

you would pay for that area

You pay the religions

that is because they were for

That is so, everything you brought in this country

in a so arrogant star and getting worse i'm talking about.

The world that i know about is a different kind of world,

where you share ideas,

and we honestly disagree upon ideas,

we don't find over and say let's test

and that is for use it

Somebody says, what if that somebody wants to do a

and the other guy wants to swim backward

have to fight when you talk

When you are going to make a decision, we don't need that

you only do that in this kind of system

When you pick up nickles and dimes for heart disease, cystic fibrosis, where is here,

you give medical surveillance where they need

because there are enough glass there sitting

and make 7000 microscopes for all the human around.

You know world war 2.

I pointed that before. That is 5000 on the ships brought up on the sea,

800 thousand air craft.

Isn't that easier to build a country that come to help you?

What we build in Washington.

It is a very sick society.

it doesn't you have to a man on an intelligent man

and that is a strict area that the technology is

But, in the future, children will be trained as generalist.

You could not come out of school with a medical or mechanical engineer.

You have to study sociology, the origin of behaviour,

how we get abused we are

what makes kids having etcetera incentive, and study all that.

So, when someone says, ah you are an electrical engineer,

we need a rocket that will have an electric system

that will cross the projectile and will go on different cities

That is fascinating, i would love to work on that and let you work on that, you see?

So it is not on human being anymore.

Now, what about human being? There are very few people arranged as human beings.

People that take a benefit come and open all the young boys that die for war.

Really. What is the human being?

The human being wonders work out as generalist.

All you a japanese you side this way.

I want to hear all scientist story.

So, in a democracy, now everything that you want is

come in the air for one hour

and beside some country, at least we have to represent a

come in the air now let me tell you something.

Let me tell you when he was born. Let me point how we see.

Then you have a guy that come on and swim,

let me tell you how he, you see? That is democracy.

When you have one point, you are going all the time at one country,

you don't need a pilot currently in a wall.

If itt exist, up bringing in a victorian.

We are brought up not to be saved.

That is why psychiatric or psychologist saw this.

You know, that is supposed to help you.

But when you come to a psychiatrist,

i am affraid of ecomomic problem,

ways upon me, i can’t find put you out, you get out, you see?

Now, there is everybody on you

you got housing costing 200 dollars,

and i fight a frog

he makes 2000 dollars.

That is the kind of world we live.

And how do we have decency when all are going to church?

That is all crap. Think about.

Now, i open a session, cross section.

Don’t be polite. I honestly disagree, you see? Don’t be polite. I know.

Yes, i'm out you do to the work,

assuming there is about

and giving around

doesn't matter that leaving.

And how well was it going when everywhere represented on a biased system.

Over what? Voting.

There is no voting, that is cybernated systems.

You know, automobile factories are out of people,

electronics you turn out without you go at an angle

and you set a ground over there

Where are the relevant parts?

I think that some of you remember when a guy or a girl used to turn a little knob,

they couldn't up and down on the floor up and down.

On that i will say,

in a very advanced building there is what more

There was 17, i made a part on that.

If you dial, and this is 800 number, 1 800 dial flower.

How much of you know about that?

All big industries were installing automatic voice systems that understands language.

You call into a big industrial plant, engineer

that say what do you want to talk about?

You say, well talk about some views that are not operating properly,

and when you find some understand some other thing

the japanese were working on a little unit were there

You go to japan and say

immediately translated to japanese.

you say japanese companies what is the air scope

seeing one do you want to

What is caused to be a hate verbous fraw

caused on everybody

because it was a poor solution to a problem.

Now, the answer to that problem is very difficult for people to accept.

It is called total enclosuring systems.

How many of you are familiar with it?

And there are many people that were

live in an individual home because

the gym is that the weather even smarter.

And there are so much facilities in there,

like living in a hotel that

comes to whatever you will.

Now, living in a private home, you have to maintain the lawn, and everything.

So, some people may want to live in the future

in a gigantic total enclosured system.

That is like an ocean liner.

Was anybody here have traveled in a first class on an ocean line?

It is about 4 people here.

Anyway, when you own an ocean line

what happens let's say come over and you say

“would you like some fruit salad?”

All day long, and everybody were out,

and everybody

you don't have to and say hey

i see no snowflakes, the right to the navigator.

Who are these people in Washington to write its own on them?

where in the hell do they get that job?