Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows co-founded The Venus Project, which represents the culmination of Jacque's life’s work: the integration of the best of science and technology within a comprehensive plan for a global society based on human and environmental concern.

The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know in order to achieve a sustainable new world civilization. It calls for a straightforward redesign of our culture in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but as totally unacceptable. Anything less will result in a continuation of the same catalogue of problems inherent in today's world. Today many people believe what is needed is a higher sense of ethical standards and the enactment of international laws to assure a sustainable global society.



Very briefly, The Venus Project is an organization that proposes a feasible plan of action for social change; a holistic global socio-economic system called a Resource Based Economy that works toward a peaceful and sustainable global civilization. It outlines an alternative to strive toward where human rights are not only paper proclamations, but also a way of life.

The Venus Project presents an alternative vision for a sustainable world civilization unlike any political, economic or social system that has gone before. It envisions a time in the near future when money, politics, self and national-interest have been phased out. Although this vision may seem idealistic, it is based upon years of study and experimental research. It spans the gamut from education, transportation, and clean sources of energy to total city systems.

Many people believe that what is needed is a higher sense of ethical standards and the enactment of international laws and treaties to assure a sustainable global society. Even if the most ethical people in the world were elected to political office, without sufficient resources, we would still have many of the same problems we have today. As long as a few nations control most of the world's resources and profit is the bottom line, the same cycle of events will prevail.

As global challenges and scientific information proliferate, nations and people face common threats that transcend national boundaries. Overpopulation, energy shortages, global warming, environmental pollution, water scarcity, economic catastrophe, the spread of uncontrollable disease, and the technological displacement of people by machines threaten each of us. Although many people are dedicated to alleviating those conditions, our social and environmental problems will remain insurmountable as long as a few powerful nations and financial interests maintain control of and consume most of the world's resources and the monetary system prevails.

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems, we must declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all of the world's people.

Earth is abundant and has plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival. Today we have highly advanced technologies, but our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities. We could easily create a world of abundance for all; free of servitude and debt based on the carrying capacity of Earth resources. With the intelligent and humane application of science and technology, humanity can guide and shape the future together while protecting the environment. We don't have enough money to accomplish these ends, but we do have more than enough resources.

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100 Most Influential Scientists
1 Isaac Newton
2 Albert Einstein
3 Neils Bohr
4 Charles Darwin
5 Louis Pasteur
6 Sigmund Freud
7 Galileo Galilei
8 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
9 Johannes Kepler
10 Nicolaus Copernicus
11 Michael Faraday
12 James Clerk Maxwell
13 Claude Bernard
14 Franz Boas
15 Werner Heisenberg
16 Linus Pauling
17 Rudolf Virchow
18 Erwin Schrodinger
19 Ernest Rutherford
20 Paul Dirac
21 Andreas Vesalius
22 Tycho Brahe
23 Comte de Buffon
24 Ludwig Boltzmann
25 Max Planck
26 Marie Curie
27 William Herschel
28 Charles Lyell
29 Pierre Simon de Laplace
30 Edwin Hubble
31 Joseph J. Thomson
32 Max Born
33 Francis Crick
34 Enrico Fermi
35 Leonard Euler
36 Justus Liebig
37 Arthur Eddington
38 William Harvey
39 Marcello Malpighi
40 Christiaan Huygens
41 Carl Gauss (Karl Friedrich Gauss)
42 Albrecht von Haller
43 August Kekule
44 Robert Koch
45 Murray Gell-Mann
46 Emil Fischer
47 Dmitri Mendeleev
48 Sheldon Glashow
49 James Watson
50 John Bardeen
51 John von Neumann
52 Richard Feynman
53 Alfred Wegener
54 Stephen Hawking
55 Anton van Leeuwenhoek
56 Max von Laue
57 Gustav Kirchhoff
58 Hans Bethe
59 Euclid
60 Gregor Mendel
61 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
62 Thomas Hunt Morgan
63 Hermann von Helmholtz
64 Paul Ehrlich
65 Ernst Mayr
66 Charles Sherrington
67 Theodosius Dobzhansky
68 Max Delbruck
69 Jean Baptiste Lamarck
70 William Bayliss
71 Noam Chomsky
72 Frederick Sanger
73 Lucretius
74 John Dalton
75 Louis Victor de Broglie
76 Carl Linnaeus
77 Jean Piaget
78 George Gaylord Simpson
79 Claude Levi-Strauss
80 Lynn Margulis
81 Karl Landsteiner
82 Konrad Lorenz
83 Edward O. Wilson
84 Frederick Gowland
85 Gertrude Belle Elion
86 Hans Selye
87 J. Robert Oppenheimer
88 Edward Teller
89 Willard Libby
90 Ernst Haeckel
91 Jonas Salk
92 Emil Kraepelin
93 Trofim Lysenko
94 Francis Galton
95 Alfred Binet
96 Alfred Kinsey
97 Alexander Fleming
98 B. F. Skinner
99 Wilhelm Wundt
100 Archimedes


Semantics: Language of Relevance

Language has evolved over centuries through ages of scarcity, superstition, and social insufficiency, and often contains ambiguity and uncertainty when important issues are at stake. Polar opposites are often implied — good or bad, beautiful or ugly, fast or slow, black or white, even though the world in which we live usually shows a large number of degrees between extremes. Our language also fails to use a precise and universally intelligible means of conveying knowledge, making it difficult for the average person to share ideas with others whose worldview may be very different than their own.

Many of us lack the skills to communicate logically when we are emotionally invested in an outcome. If a person or group has difficulty in communicating the point in question, rather than seeking clarification, they will raise their voices. If this doesn’t work, they may resort to physical violence, punishment, or deprivation as a means of achieving the desired behavior. Many of these attempts to control behavior actually increased violence and drove parties farther apart.
Designing a Language

We need a language that correlates highly with the environment and human needs. If we apply the same methods used in the physical sciences to psychology, sociology, and the humanities, a lot of unnecessary conflicts could be resolved. In engineering, mathematics, chemistry, and other technical fields, we have the nearest thing to a universal descriptive language that requires little in the way of individual interpretation. It is deliberately designed — as opposed to evolving haphazardly through centuries of cultural change — to state problems in terms that ar