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F.A.Q.
The following is a Q&A, which is answered directly
by Jacque Fresco.(unless otherwise noted) The answer will 'popup',
so please have popup blockers turned off.
- How do you
see the collapse of the present system occurring?
- Wouldn't there
be Resistance of the Rich and Powerful?
- Is The Venus
Project a Utopian society?
- What do you
consider a "high standard of living", which everyone
in the world is entitled to? And who is the one to decide
this?
- Who makes
the decisions in a resource based economy?
- Will people
who do more work, such as doctors, demand more resources
then someone like an artist?
- What about
religion?
- In a system
where everything is available without a price tag, would
this eliminate incentive?
- Isn't this
against Human Nature?
- Do we have
enough energy to eliminate scarcity?
- What is the
Plan?
- How are Resources
Distributed Equitably?
- What Guarantees
People The Right Of Participation?
- How are Learning,
Cooperation, and Gaining Health, Built into the System?
- How can the
use of Laws be eliminated?
- What is the
role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?
- How would
one choose a home?
- What is the
role of the family?
- What types
of pressures would be alleviated in The Venus Project's
designs?
- What is the
single most important aspect of the project?
- Why is this
concept superior to other intentional community projects?
- Could individuals
live outside the cities?
- How is the
distribution of food and/or other objects of desire, like
telephones or computers or book?
- Are there
any non-automated vehicles (cars or airplane-like), and
how does the society prevent miss-use if there are?
- Why do you
feel that an approach as revolutionary as The Venus Project
is necessary?
- Why are you
against money?
- In this new
culture, do you propose to utilize a technical elite that
would decide the direction for society?
- Why the emphasis
on the cybernated approach to the social operation?
- What will
people do?
- What are the
safeguards against abuse of power in the society you envision?
- Why place
great emphasis on human behavior as opposed to human nature.
Would you define both?
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