Jacque Fresco? Never Heard of Him

Jacque’s background caused him to begin to ponder this forward way of thinking as a little boy in the depression years. He mentioned looking around at the closed up shops around his hometown and noticed all the appliances and things that people needed to live on a daily basis right there in the store windows but realized that people did not have any purchasing power. Later, in his late twenties, in his backroom of his home, he began to work on plans for cities designed from the ground up that would be both self-sustaining and self regulating. So all people would have access to the necessities of life. As you may well have imagined, in the cities proposed by Jacque, there would be no need to buy or sell anything. In this world, boring, monotonous jobs would be a thing of the past. Computerized machines would be brought to the level of advancement where they could regulate daily operations, with little oversight by man, such as food distribution, building homes, energy and water flow, etc. This would in no way, minimize the importance of culture in society, Jacque’s plans include buildings specifically designed as music and art centers, libraries, theatre’s and so forth, plus, the some of the world’s greatest structures would be preserved as museums for generations to come.

We have an emergent society presented here, that follows natural law and thus overcomes man’s tendency to dominate man, “THE FUTURE IS FLUID” as Jacque outlined in all caps in the opening chapter of his book, and it is ours to decide what to do with it.

by Lauren Todd　

Fresco, J. (2002) The Best That Money Can’t Buy. Published by Global Cyber-Visions