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Das Venus Projekt

2012-07-29T04:52:44Z

OpenFuture: That looked horrible

{{Infobox organization
| name = The Venus Project
| image = TheVenusProjectLogo.svg
| size = 200px
| caption = The Venus Project logo
| motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
| type = [[Non-profit Organization]]
| website = [http://www.thevenusproject.com www.thevenusproject.com]
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization started by [[self-educated]] [[structural engineering | structural engineer]], [[industrial design | industrial designer]], and [[futurism | futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]. Fresco's project aims to restructure society through worldwide utilization of a theoretical design that he calls a ''[[Resource-based economy#Alternative_use | resource-based economy]]''. Those ideas use a version of [[sustainable development | sustainable]] cities, [[Efficient energy use | energy efficiency]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]] with a global socio-economic system based on [[cooperation | social cooperation]] and [[science | scientific methodology]].

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist [[Jacque Fresco]] (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by [[Jacque Fresco]]<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in [[Venus, Florida]], [[United States]].

==Zeitgeist movies==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project is featured prominently in the documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', in relation to global problems explained in the film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2012-04-25}}</ref> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}}It was released online for free on YouTube<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg | work=Video | publisher=YouTube | accessdate=2012-04-25 }}</ref>. Following the movie, an organization called [[the Zeitgeist Movement]] was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. At that time Zeitgeist was a promoter-advocate of the Venus Project, however, in April 2011, the Venus Project formally disassociated itself from Zeitgeist as it no longer felt represented by Zeitgest.<ref>{{cite web|title=TVP / TZM Split on V-Radio|url=http://tobtr.com/s/1802513}}</ref>

== Resource-based economy ==

The term ''resource-based economy'' is applied by the Venus Project to a hypothetical economy in which goods, services and information are free. This use of the term is found in information from Jacque Fresco.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project/resource-based-economy|title=Resource Based Economy|publisher=[[The Venus Project]]}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Technocracy movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.thevenusproject.com The Venus Project]
* [http://www.thepangea.org/ ''The Pangea — Greece Activism'']
* [http://www.futuragora.pt/ ''FUTURAGORA — Portugal Activism'']
* [http://www.civilisation2.org/ ''Civilisation 2.0 — France Activism'']
* [http://www.fbdthemovie.com/order.html ''Future by Design DVD, Directed by William Gazecki'']

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Das Venus Projekt

2012-07-29T04:39:07Z

OpenFuture: There should probably be a hatnote of some kind too.

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| size = 200px
| caption = The Venus Project logo
| motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
| type = [[Non-profit Organization]]
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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization started by [[self-educated]] [[structural engineering | structural engineer]], [[industrial design | industrial designer]], and [[futurism | futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]. Fresco's project aims to restructure society through worldwide utilization of a theoretical design that he calls a ''[[Resource-based economy#Alternative_use | resource-based economy]]''. Those ideas use a version of [[sustainable development | sustainable]] cities, [[Efficient energy use | energy efficiency]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]] with a global socio-economic system based on [[cooperation | social cooperation]] and [[science | scientific methodology]].

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist [[Jacque Fresco]] (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by [[Jacque Fresco]]<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in [[Venus, Florida]], [[United States]].

==Zeitgeist movies==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project is featured prominently in the documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', in relation to global problems explained in the film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2012-04-25}}</ref> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}}It was released online for free on YouTube<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg | work=Video | publisher=YouTube | accessdate=2012-04-25 }}</ref>. Following the movie, an organization called [[the Zeitgeist Movement]] was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. At that time Zeitgeist was a promoter-advocate of the Venus Project, however, in April 2011, the Venus Project formally disassociated itself from Zeitgeist as it no longer felt represented by Zeitgest.<ref>{{cite web|title=TVP / TZM Split on V-Radio|url=http://tobtr.com/s/1802513}}</ref>

== Resource-based economy ==

The term ''resource-based economy'' is applied by the Venus Project to a hypothetical economy in which goods, services and information are free. This use of the term is found in information from Jacque Fresco.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project/resource-based-economy|title=Resource Based Economy|publisher=[[The Venus Project]]}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Technocracy movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.thevenusproject.com The Venus Project]
* [http://www.thepangea.org/ ''The Pangea — Greece Activism'']
* [http://www.futuragora.pt/ ''FUTURAGORA — Portugal Activism'']
* [http://www.civilisation2.org/ ''Civilisation 2.0 — France Activism'']
* [http://www.fbdthemovie.com/order.html ''Future by Design DVD, Directed by William Gazecki'']

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Kopffüßler

2012-03-22T14:11:44Z

OpenFuture:

[[Datei:Nørre Alslev kirke - Apsis - Kopffüßler Löwe.jpg|thumb|Kopffüßler, Fresco (13. Jhdt.) in Nørre Alslev kirke, Dänemark]]
'''Kopffüßler''' sind Gestalten, die nur aus Beinen und einem kopfähnlichen Gebilde bestehen, dem die Funktionen von Kopf und Leib zugleich übertragen sind. Kopffüßler stellen die knappste Form dar, einen ganzen Menschen bildlich darzustellen. Für die [[Kinderzeichnung]] gilt: das Bild des Menschen beginnt mit dem Kopffüßler. Darüber hinaus spielt das Motiv des Kopffüßlers eine bedeutende Rolle von der Prähistorie bis zur aktuellen Kunstproduktion, von Ethnographica (Afrika, Asien, Ozeanien) bis zum Design unserer Zeit. Da es sich um ein in uns Menschen angelegtes Bildmuster handelt, wird diese Möglichkeit in der Werbung ebenso genutzt wie bei rituellen Gebrauchsgegenständen (z. B. bei Initiation) oder in der modernen (z. B. bei [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Joan Miró]], [[Alfred Kubin]]) und zeitgenössischen Kunst (z. B. bei [[Horst Antes]], Peter Gilles, KH Hödicke, [[Gustav Kluge]], [[Sigmar Polke]]). Außerdem findet sich die Darstellung von Kopffüßlern in den Bildern psychiatrischer und neurologischer Patienten sowie in der sogenannten [[Art brut]] (z. B. bei [[Oswald Tschirtner]], Augustin Wilhelm Schnietz).

Ferner ist der Begriff Kopffüßler eine häufige Falschschreibung für die Tierklasse der [[Kopffüßer]].

== Literatur ==
* Kraft, H.: ''Die Kopffüßler. Eine transkulturelle Studie zur Psychologie und Psychopathologie der bildnerischen Gestaltung.'' Hippokrates, Stuttgart 1982.
* Kraft, H.: ''Die Geburt des Menschenbildes - Die Kopffüßler.'' Salon Verlag, Köln 1999, ISBN 3-89770-014-X.
* Kraft, H.: ''Grenzgänger zwischen Kunst und Psychiatrie.'' Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Köln 2005.
* [[Hans Prinzhorn|Prinzhorn, H.]]: ''Bildnerei der Geisteskranken.'' Springer, Berlin 1922.

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Das Venus Projekt

2011-08-23T19:37:45Z

OpenFuture: This is how you do that.

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{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.svg
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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim of improving society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida]], where its research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate The Venus Project Store]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}} and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that all of society is fundamentally corrupt<ref>{{cite web |people="[[Jacque Fresco]] |title=Zeitgeist:Addendum |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg |time=0:56:14 |quote="So you see the basis of corruption is in our society. Let me make it clear. All nations then are basically corrupt because they tend to uphold existing institutions. I don't mean to uphold or downgrade all nations, but communism, socialist, fascism, the free enterprise system, and all others sub-cultures are the same. They are all basically corrupt." |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref> and that this corruption comes from the use of money.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ |publisher=The Venus Project |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq |location=Point 6.5 |quote=There is tremendous corruption, greed, crime, embezzlement, and more caused by the need for money. |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref> Fresco instead advocates what he refers to as a resource-based economy,<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm |archivedate=2009-04-27}}</ref> which is an economy where resources are allocated by a computerized automated system referred to as the Cybernation.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ |publisher=The Venus Project |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq |location=Point 52. |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=City Systems |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/technology |publisher=The Venus Project |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref>

== Aims and goals of the project ==

# Realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people.
# Transcending the artificial boundaries that currently and arbitrarily separate people.
# Replacing money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.
# Assisting in stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth control.
# Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
# Redesigning cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants so that they are energy-efficient, clean, and able conveniently to serve the needs of all people.
# Gradually outgrowing corporate entities and governments (local, national, or supra-national) as means of social management.
# Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
# Developing and using clean, renewable energy sources.
# Manufacturing the highest-quality products for the benefit of the world’s people.
# Requiring environmental-impact studies prior to construction of any mega-projects.
# Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavour.
# Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.
# Eliminating elitism—technical or otherwise.
# Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
# Enhancing communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical conditions of the world.
# Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
# Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.<ref>{{cite web|title=Aim and proposals|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals|publisher=Venus Project}}</ref>

==Resource-based economy ([[sustainability|Sustainable]], [[Automation|Automated]], Free goods and services)==
==== The concept of a sustainable cybernated economy ====

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and technological advancement. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see [[Star network]]), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently.<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy uses machines as labour to deliver goods and services from resource mining to the finished product, distribution centers with drive-throughs for each category that consumers collect and courier home, and there is no cost to them, the cost is the energy and resource used in the process, which fall onto automated machines to regulate, alleviating the workload from consumers.

In the market economy, the one based on the flow of money; labour is required from consumers in sectors of industry to produce goods and services, to manage this there must be scarcity enough to motivate labour, and on needs such as food and shelter that can be kept scarce artificially to maintain a workforce. Those of lavish lifestyle, with the better quality of life, are the ones that manage the labour-consumer market, and as these are the prime vehicles of the market economy, wealth may readily accumulate into their ownership. The most wealthy and powerful hold resources as a bargain-chip to stimulate labour to produce goods and services for society and luxury for the rich and powerful. A dependent relation exists between the worker and the governors that maintains the stability of the market economy, yet simply sustaining the economy may evolve into exploitation of workers, maintaining them at subsistence level while profiting wealth, resource and luxury.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Venus Project-Scarcity, Justice, Transition, Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/thevenusprojectmedia#p/u/52/e66jQ-pZYnc}}</ref>

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not profit and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref name="The Venus Project">{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government.<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices,<ref name="The Venus Project"/> and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; labour and wealth distribution is controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need. Fresco maintains that although an abundance of resources exists in reality,<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref> greed and power inherent in the market structure limits access to them. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/economic_viability economic viability].

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was no, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately, this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
'''According to Jacque Fresco (unless otherwise stated)'''<br />

Poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. The profit motive also stifles the [[technological progress|progress]] of socially beneficial technology. The monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. The current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
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The advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} It is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref>

Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref> And human error will not be left to chance, but compensated by cybernated structures, these will manage the risk to minimize or eliminate the opportunities that allow damage to the functioning of society. Offenders will not be killed, instead they will be re-educated, provided with the pieces of information for them to be altruistic, the integrity of a peaceful sustainable society will hold priority. Predatory drives are bred within the individual, in a monetary system, drives as these are conditioned by culture, and combined with a lack (scarcity), these predators will take offensive action against the better-off or helpless whatever the power differentials are; resulting in social consequences like poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war, when the root cause is removed (the flow of money) these troubles will vanish. <ref>{{cite web|title=Corrupting Factors, Social Responsibility|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSi1SCqa1YY&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

His ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]].
His ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows:<ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

The Venus project makes verbal agreement that all funds raised go back to developing the project, which provide a viable alternative to the market system, for when the market economy falls their solution will provide. As mentioned by Jacque and Roxanne, it is imperative that a motion picture be made before Jacque dies, so that the vision will be readily and easily accessible and apprehensible into the far future. This would continue the cause into building a research city founded on principles laid out by Jacque, establish through years research, experience and experiment.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Donations and how they are used|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjNg7i2zNk&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. The movement functioned as the activist arm of the Venus Project, however in April, 2011 they split up.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en|title=Chapter instructions: April 2011}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim of improving society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate The Venus Project Store]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}} and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that all of society is fundamentally corrupt<ref>{{cite web |people="[[Jacque Fresco]] |title=Zeitgeist:Addendum |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg |time=0:56:14 |quote="So you see the basis of corruption is in our society. Let me make it clear. All nations then are basically corrupt because they tend to uphold existing institutions. I don't mean to uphold or downgrade all nations, but communism, socialist, fascism, the free enterprise system, and all others sub-cultures are the same. They are all basically corrupt." |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref> and that this corruption comes from the use of money.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ |publisher=The Venus Project |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq |location=Point 6.5 |quote=There is tremendous corruption, greed, crime, embezzlement, and more caused by the need for money. |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref> Fresco instead advocates what he refers to as a resource-based economy,<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm |archivedate=2009-04-27}}</ref> which is an economy where resources are allocated by a computerized automated system referred to as the Cybernation.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ |publisher=The Venus Project |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq |location=Point 52. |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=City Systems |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/technology |publisher=The Venus Project |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref>

== Aims and goals of the project ==

# Realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people.
# Transcending the artificial boundaries that currently and arbitrarily separate people.
# Replacing money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.
# Assisting in stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth control.
# Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
# Redesigning cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants so that they are energy-efficient, clean, and able conveniently to serve the needs of all people.
# Gradually outgrowing corporate entities and governments (local, national, or supra-national) as means of social management.
# Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
# Developing and using clean, renewable energy sources.
# Manufacturing the highest-quality products for the benefit of the world’s people.
# Requiring environmental-impact studies prior to construction of any mega-projects.
# Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavour.
# Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.
# Eliminating elitism—technical or otherwise.
# Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
# Enhancing communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical conditions of the world.
# Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
# Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.<ref>{{cite web|title=Aim and proposals|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals|publisher=Venus Project}}</ref>

==Resource-based economy ([[sustainability|Sustainable]], [[Automation|Automated]], Free goods and services)==
==== The concept of a sustainable cybernated economy ====

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and technological advancement. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see [[Star network]]), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently.<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy uses machines as labour to deliver goods and services from resource mining to the finished product, distribution centers with drive-throughs for each category that consumers collect and courier home, and there is no cost to them, the cost is the energy and resource used in the process, which fall onto automated machines to regulate, alleviating the workload from consumers.

In the market economy, the one based on the flow of money; labour is required from consumers in sectors of industry to produce goods and services, to manage this there must be scarcity enough to motivate labour, and on needs such as food and shelter that can be kept scarce artificially to maintain a workforce. Those of lavish lifestyle, with the better quality of life, are the ones that manage the labour-consumer market, and as these are the prime vehicles of the market economy, wealth may readily accumulate into their ownership. The most wealthy and powerful hold resources as a bargain-chip to stimulate labour to produce goods and services for society and luxury for the rich and powerful. A dependent relation exists between the worker and the governors that maintains the stability of the market economy, yet simply sustaining the economy may evolve into exploitation of workers, maintaining them at subsistence level while profiting wealth, resource and luxury.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Venus Project-Scarcity, Justice, Transition, Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/thevenusprojectmedia#p/u/52/e66jQ-pZYnc}}</ref>

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not profit and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref name="The Venus Project">{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government.<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices,<ref name="The Venus Project"/> and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; labour and wealth distribution is controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need. Fresco maintains that although an abundance of resources exists in reality,<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref> greed and power inherent in the market structure limits access to them. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/economic_viability economic viability].

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was no, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately, this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
'''According to Jacque Fresco (unless otherwise stated)'''<br />

Poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. The profit motive also stifles the [[technological progress|progress]] of socially beneficial technology. The monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. The current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
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The advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} It is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref>

Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref> And human error will not be left to chance, but compensated by cybernated structures, these will manage the risk to minimize or eliminate the opportunities that allow damage to the functioning of society. Offenders will not be killed, instead they will be re-educated, provided with the pieces of information for them to be altruistic, the integrity of a peaceful sustainable society will hold priority. Predatory drives are bred within the individual, in a monetary system, drives as these are conditioned by culture, and combined with a lack (scarcity), these predators will take offensive action against the better-off or helpless whatever the power differentials are; resulting in social consequences like poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war, when the root cause is removed (the flow of money) these troubles will vanish. <ref>{{cite web|title=Corrupting Factors, Social Responsibility|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSi1SCqa1YY&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

His ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]].
His ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows:<ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

The Venus project makes verbal agreement that all funds raised go back to developing the project, which provide a viable alternative to the market system, for when the market economy falls their solution will provide. As mentioned by Jacque and Roxanne, it is imperative that a motion picture be made before Jacque dies, so that the vision will be readily and easily accessible and apprehensible into the far future. This would continue the cause into building a research city founded on principles laid out by Jacque, establish through years research, experience and experiment.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Donations and how they are used|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjNg7i2zNk&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. The movement functioned as the activist arm of the Venus Project, however in April, 2011 they split up.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en|title=Chapter instructions: April 2011}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim of improving society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate The Venus Project Store]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}} and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that all of society is fundamentally corrupt<ref>{{cite web |people="[[Jacque Fresco]] |title=Zeitgeist:Addendum |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg |time=0:56:14 |quote="So you see the basis of corruption is in our society. Let me make it clear. All nations then are basically corrupt because they tend to uphold existing institutions. I don't mean to uphold or downgrade all nations, but communism, socialist, fascism, the free enterprise system, and all others sub-cultures are the same. They are all basically corrupt." |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref> and that this corruption comes from the use of money.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ |publisher=The Venus Project |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq |location=Point 6.5 |quote=There is tremendous corruption, greed, crime, embezzlement, and more caused by the need for money. |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref> Fresco instead advocates what he refers to as a resource-based economy,<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm |archivedate=2009-04-27}}</ref> which is an economy where resources are allocated by a computerized automated system referred to as the Cybernation.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ |publisher=The Venus Project |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq |location=Point 52. |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=City Systems |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/technology |publisher=The Venus Project |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref>

== Aims and goals of the project ==

# Realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people.
# Transcending the artificial boundaries that currently and arbitrarily separate people.
# Replacing money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.
# Assisting in stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth control.
# Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
# Redesigning cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants so that they are energy-efficient, clean, and able conveniently to serve the needs of all people.
# Gradually outgrowing corporate entities and governments (local, national, or supra-national) as means of social management.
# Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
# Developing and using clean, renewable energy sources.
# Manufacturing the highest-quality products for the benefit of the world’s people.
# Requiring environmental-impact studies prior to construction of any mega-projects.
# Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavour.
# Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.
# Eliminating elitism—technical or otherwise.
# Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
# Enhancing communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical conditions of the world.
# Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
# Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.<ref>{{cite web|title=Aim and proposals|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals|publisher=Venus Project}}</ref>

==Resource-based economy ([[sustainability|Sustainable]], [[Automation|Automated]], Free goods and services)==
==== The concept of a sustainable cybernated economy ====

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and technological advancement. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see [[Star network]]), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently.<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy uses machines as labour to deliver goods and services from resource mining to the finished product, distribution centers with drive-throughs for each category that consumers collect and courier home, and there is no cost to them, the cost is the energy and resource used in the process, which fall onto automated machines to regulate, alleviating the workload from consumers.

In the market economy, the one based on the flow of money; labour is required from consumers in sectors of industry to produce goods and services, to manage this there must be scarcity enough to motivate labour, and on needs such as food and shelter that can be kept scarce artificially to maintain a workforce. Those of lavish lifestyle, with the better quality of life, are the ones that manage the labour-consumer market, and as these are the prime vehicles of the market economy, wealth may readily accumulate into their ownership. The most wealthy and powerful hold resources as a bargain-chip to stimulate labour to produce goods and services for society and luxury for the rich and powerful. A dependent relation exists between the worker and the governors that maintains the stability of the market economy, yet simply sustaining the economy may evolve into exploitation of workers, maintaining them at subsistence level while profiting wealth, resource and luxury.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Venus Project-Scarcity, Justice, Transition, Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/thevenusprojectmedia#p/u/52/e66jQ-pZYnc}}</ref>

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not profit and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref name="The Venus Project">{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government.<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices,<ref name="The Venus Project"/> and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; labour and wealth distribution is controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need. Fresco maintains that although an abundance of resources exists in reality,<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref> greed and power inherent in the market structure limits access to them. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/economic_viability economic viability].

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was no, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately, this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
'''According to Jacque Fresco (unless otherwise stated)'''<br />

Poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. The profit motive also stifles the [[technological progress|progress]] of socially beneficial technology. The monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. The current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

The advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} It is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref>

Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref> And human error will not be left to chance, but compensated by cybernated structures, these will manage the risk to minimize or eliminate the opportunities that allow damage to the functioning of society. Offenders will not be killed, instead they will be re-educated, provided with the pieces of information for them to be altruistic, the integrity of a peaceful sustainable society will hold priority. Predatory drives are bred within the individual, in a monetary system, drives as these are conditioned by culture, and combined with a lack (scarcity), these predators will take offensive action against the better-off or helpless whatever the power differentials are; resulting in social consequences like poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war, when the root cause is removed (the flow of money) these troubles will vanish. <ref>{{cite web|title=Corrupting Factors, Social Responsibility|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSi1SCqa1YY&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

His ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]].
His ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows:<ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

The Venus project makes verbal agreement that all funds raised go back to developing the project, which provide a viable alternative to the market system, for when the market economy falls their solution will provide. As mentioned by Jacque and Roxanne, it is imperative that a motion picture be made before Jacque dies, so that the vision will be readily and easily accessible and apprehensible into the far future. This would continue the cause into building a research city founded on principles laid out by Jacque, establish through years research, experience and experiment.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Donations and how they are used|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjNg7i2zNk&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. The movement functioned as the activist arm of the Venus Project, however in April, 2011 they split up.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en|title=Chapter instructions: April 2011}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
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|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate The Venus Project Store]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}} and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that all of society is fundamentally corrupt<ref>{{cite web |people="[[Jacque Fresco]] |title=Zeitgeist:Addendum |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg |time=0:56:14 |quote="So you see the basis of corruption is in our society. Let me make it clear. All nations then are basically corrupt because they tend to uphold existing institutions. I don't mean to uphold or downgrade all nations, but communism, socialist, fascism, the free enterprise system, and all others sub-cultures are the same. They are all basically corrupt." |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref> and that this corruption comes from the use of money.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ |publisher=The Venus Project |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq |location=Point 6.5 |quote=There is tremendous corruption, greed, crime, embezzlement, and more caused by the need for money. |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref> Fresco instead advocates what he refers to as a resource-based economy,<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> which is an economy where resources are allocated by a computerized automated system referred to as the Cybernation.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ |publisher=The Venus Project |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq |location=Point 52. |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=City Systems |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/technology |publisher=The Venus Project |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref>

== Aims and goals of the project ==
<ref>{{cite web|title=Aim and proposals|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals|publisher=Venus Project}}</ref>
# Realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people.
# Transcending the artificial boundaries that currently and arbitrarily separate people.
# Replacing money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.
# Assisting in stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth control.
# Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
# Redesigning cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants so that they are energy efficient, clean, and able to conveniently serve the needs of all people.
# Gradually outgrowing corporate entities and governments, (local, national, or supra-national) as means of social management.
# Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
# Developing and using clean renewable energy sources.
# Manufacturing the highest quality products for the benefit of the world’s people.
# Requiring environmental impact studies prior to construction of any mega projects.
# Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavour.
# Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.
# Eliminating elitism, technical or otherwise.
# Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
# Enhancing communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical conditions of the world.
# Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
# Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.

==Resource-based economy ([[sustainability|Sustainable]], [[Automation|Automated]], Free goods and services)==
=== Keywords ===
[[sustainability|Sustainable]], [[Automation|Automated]], Free goods and services, [[common ownership|Common heritage of global resources]], Scientific method, [[Cybernetics|Cybernated]] systems approach

==== The concept of a sustainable cybernated economy ====

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and [[technology|technological advancement]]. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see [[Star network]]), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently.<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy uses machines as labour to deliver goods and services from resource mining to the finished product, distribution centers with drive-throughs for each category that consumers collect and courier home, and there is no cost to them, the cost is the energy and resource used in the process, which fall onto automated machines to regulate, alleviating the workload from consumers.

In the market economy, the one based on the flow of money; labour is required from consumers in sectors of industry to produce goods and services, to manage this there must be scarcity enough to motivate labour, and on needs such as food and shelter that can be kept scarce artificially to maintain a workforce. Those of lavish lifestyle, with the better quality of life, are the ones that manage the labour-consumer market, and as these are the prime vehicles of the market economy, wealth may readily accumulate into their ownership. The most wealthy and powerful hold resources as a bargain-chip to stimulate labour to produce goods and services for society and luxury for the rich and powerful. A dependent relation exists between the worker and the governors that maintains the stability of the market economy, yet simply sustaining the economy may evolve into exploitation of workers, maintaining them at subsistence level while profiting wealth, resource and luxury.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Venus Project-Scarcity, Justice, Transition, Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/thevenusprojectmedia#p/u/52/e66jQ-pZYnc}}</ref>

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not profit and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref name="The Venus Project">{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government.<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices,<ref name="The Venus Project"/> and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality,<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref> he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows:<ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

The Venus project makes verbal agreement that all funds raised go back to developing the project, which provide a viable alternative to the market system, for when the market economy falls their solution will provide. As mentioned by Jacque and Roxanne, it is imperative that a motion picture be made before Jacque dies, so that the vision will be readily and easily accessible and apprehensible into the far future. This would continue the cause into building a research city founded on principles laid out by Jacque, establish through years research, experience and experiment.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Donations and how they are used|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjNg7i2zNk&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Organization]]
|website = {{URL|www.thevenusproject.com}}
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate The Venus Project Store]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}} and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that all of society is fundamentally corrupt<ref>{{cite web |people="[[Jacque Fresco]] |title=Zeitgeist:Addendum |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg |time=0:56:14 |quote="So you see the basis of corruption is in our society. Let me make it clear. All nations then are basically corrupt because they tend to uphold existing institutions. I don't mean to uphold or downgrade all nations, but communism, socialist, fascism, the free enterprise system, and all others sub-cultures are the same. They are all basically corrupt." |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref> and that this corruption comes from the use of money.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ |publisher=The Venus Project |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq |location=Point 6.5 |quote=There is tremendous corruption, greed, crime, embezzlement, and more caused by the need for money. |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref> Fresco instead advocates what he refers to as a resource-based economy,<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> which is an economy where resources are allocated by a computerized automated system referred to as the Cybernation.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAQ |publisher=The Venus Project |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq |location=Point 52. |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=City Systems |url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/technology |publisher=The Venus Project |accessdate=2001-06-06}}</ref>

== Aims and goals of the project ==
<ref>{{cite web|title=Aim and proposals|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals|publisher=Venus Project}}</ref>
# Realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people.
# Transcending the artificial boundaries that currently and arbitrarily separate people.
# Replacing money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.
# Assisting in stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth control.
# Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
# Redesigning cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants so that they are energy efficient, clean, and able to conveniently serve the needs of all people.
# Gradually outgrowing corporate entities and governments, (local, national, or supra-national) as means of social management.
# Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
# Developing and using clean renewable energy sources.
# Manufacturing the highest quality products for the benefit of the world’s people.
# Requiring environmental impact studies prior to construction of any mega projects.
# Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavour.
# Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.
# Eliminating elitism, technical or otherwise.
# Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
# Enhancing communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical conditions of the world.
# Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
# Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.

==Resource-based economy ([[sustainability|Sustainable]], [[Automation|Automated]], Free goods and services)==
=== Keywords ===
[[sustainability|Sustainable]], [[Automation|Automated]], Free goods and services, [[common ownership|Common heritage of global resources]], Scientific method, [[Cybernetics|Cybernated]] systems approach

==== The concept of a sustainable cybernated economy ====

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and [[technology|technological advancement]]. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see [[Star network]]), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently.<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy uses machines as labour to deliver goods and services from resource mining to the finished product, distribution centers with drive-throughs for each category that consumers collect and courier home, and there is no cost to them, the cost is the energy and resource used in the process, which fall onto automated machines to regulate, alleviating the workload from consumers.

In the market economy, the one based on the flow of money; labour is required from consumers in sectors of industry to produce goods and services, to manage this there must be scarcity enough to motivate labour, and on needs such as food and shelter that can be kept scarce artificially to maintain a workforce. Those of lavish lifestyle, with the better quality of life, are the ones that manage the labour-consumer market, and as these are the prime vehicles of the market economy, wealth may readily accumulate into their ownership. The most wealthy and powerful hold resources as a bargain-chip to stimulate labour to produce goods and services for society and luxury for the rich and powerful. A dependent relation exists between the worker and the governors that maintains the stability of the market economy, yet simply sustaining the economy may evolve into exploitation of workers, maintaining them at subsistence level while profiting wealth, resource and luxury.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Venus Project-Scarcity, Justice, Transition, Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/thevenusprojectmedia#p/u/52/e66jQ-pZYnc}}</ref>

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not profit and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref name="The Venus Project">{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government.<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices,<ref name="The Venus Project"/> and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality,<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref> he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows:<ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

The Venus project makes verbal agreement that all funds raised go back to developing the project, which provide a viable alternative to the market system, for when the market economy falls their solution will provide. As mentioned by Jacque and Roxanne, it is imperative that a motion picture be made before Jacque dies, so that the vision will be readily and easily accessible and apprehensible into the far future. This would continue the cause into building a research city founded on principles laid out by Jacque, establish through years research, experience and experiment.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Donations and how they are used|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjNg7i2zNk&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate The Venus Project Store]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}} and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} Fresco theorizes that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]] would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}} Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>

== Aims and goals of the project ==
<ref>{{cite web|title=Aim and proposals|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals|publisher=Venus Project}}</ref>
# Realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people.
# Transcending the artificial boundaries that currently and arbitrarily separate people.
# Replacing money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.
# Assisting in stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth control.
# Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
# Redesigning cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants so that they are energy efficient, clean, and able to conveniently serve the needs of all people.
# Gradually outgrowing corporate entities and governments, (local, national, or supra-national) as means of social management.
# Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
# Developing and using clean renewable energy sources.
# Manufacturing the highest quality products for the benefit of the world’s people.
# Requiring environmental impact studies prior to construction of any mega projects.
# Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavour.
# Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.
# Eliminating elitism, technical or otherwise.
# Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
# Enhancing communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical conditions of the world.
# Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
# Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.

==Resource-based economy ([[sustainability|Sustainable]], [[Automation|Automated]], Free goods and services)==
=== Keywords ===
[[sustainability|Sustainable]], [[Automation|Automated]], Free goods and services, [[common ownership|Common heritage of global resources]], Scientific method, [[Cybernetics|Cybernated]] systems approach

==== The concept of a sustainable cybernated economy ====

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and [[technology|technological advancement]]. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see [[Star network]]), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently.<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy uses machines as labour to deliver goods and services from resource mining to the finished product, distribution centers with drive-throughs for each category that consumers collect and courier home, and there is no cost to them, the cost is the energy and resource used in the process, which fall onto automated machines to regulate, alleviating the workload from consumers.

In the market economy, the one based on the flow of money; labour is required from consumers in sectors of industry to produce goods and services, to manage this there must be scarcity enough to motivate labour, and on needs such as food and shelter that can be kept scarce artificially to maintain a workforce. Those of lavish lifestyle, with the better quality of life, are the ones that manage the labour-consumer market, and as these are the prime vehicles of the market economy, wealth may readily accumulate into their ownership. The most wealthy and powerful hold resources as a bargain-chip to stimulate labour to produce goods and services for society and luxury for the rich and powerful. A dependent relation exists between the worker and the governors that maintains the stability of the market economy, yet simply sustaining the economy may evolve into exploitation of workers, maintaining them at subsistence level while profiting wealth, resource and luxury.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Venus Project-Scarcity, Justice, Transition, Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/thevenusprojectmedia#p/u/52/e66jQ-pZYnc}}</ref>

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not profit and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref name="The Venus Project">{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government.<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices,<ref name="The Venus Project"/> and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality,<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref> he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows:<ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

The Venus project makes verbal agreement that all funds raised go back to developing the project, which provide a viable alternative to the market system, for when the market economy falls their solution will provide. As mentioned by Jacque and Roxanne, it is imperative that a motion picture be made before Jacque dies, so that the vision will be readily and easily accessible and apprehensible into the far future. This would continue the cause into building a research city founded on principles laid out by Jacque, establish through years research, experience and experiment.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Donations and how they are used|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjNg7i2zNk&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

[[Category:Organizations based in Florida]]
[[Category:Zeitgeist]]

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OpenFuture: /* History */

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{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Organization]]
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}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975{{cn}} by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas.{{cn}}

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} Fresco theorizes that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]] would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}} Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>

== Aims and goals of the project ==
<ref>{{cite web|title=Aim and proposals|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals|publisher=Venus Project}}</ref>
# Realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people.
# Transcending the artificial boundaries that currently and arbitrarily separate people.
# Replacing money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.
# Assisting in stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth control.
# Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
# Redesigning cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants so that they are energy efficient, clean, and able to conveniently serve the needs of all people.
# Gradually outgrowing corporate entities and governments, (local, national, or supra-national) as means of social management.
# Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
# Developing and using clean renewable energy sources.
# Manufacturing the highest quality products for the benefit of the world’s people.
# Requiring environmental impact studies prior to construction of any mega projects.
# Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavour.
# Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.
# Eliminating elitism, technical or otherwise.
# Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
# Enhancing communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical conditions of the world.
# Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
# Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.

==Resource-based economy ([[sustainability|Sustainable]], [[Automation|Automated]], Free goods and services)==
=== Keywords ===
[[sustainability|Sustainable]], [[Automation|Automated]], Free goods and services, [[common ownership|Common heritage of global resources]], Scientific method, [[Cybernetics|Cybernated]] systems approach

==== The concept of a sustainable cybernated economy ====

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and [[technology|technological advancement]]. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see [[Star network]]), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently.<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy uses machines as labour to deliver goods and services from resource mining to the finished product, distribution centers with drive-throughs for each category that consumers collect and courier home, and there is no cost to them, the cost is the energy and resource used in the process, which fall onto automated machines to regulate, alleviating the workload from consumers.

In the market economy, the one based on the flow of money; labour is required from consumers in sectors of industry to produce goods and services, to manage this there must be scarcity enough to motivate labour, and on needs such as food and shelter that can be kept scarce artificially to maintain a workforce. Those of lavish lifestyle, with the better quality of life, are the ones that manage the labour-consumer market, and as these are the prime vehicles of the market economy, wealth may readily accumulate into their ownership. The most wealthy and powerful hold resources as a bargain-chip to stimulate labour to produce goods and services for society and luxury for the rich and powerful. A dependent relation exists between the worker and the governors that maintains the stability of the market economy, yet simply sustaining the economy may evolve into exploitation of workers, maintaining them at subsistence level while profiting wealth, resource and luxury.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Venus Project-Scarcity, Justice, Transition, Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/thevenusprojectmedia#p/u/52/e66jQ-pZYnc}}</ref>

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not profit and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref name="The Venus Project">{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government.<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices,<ref name="The Venus Project"/> and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality,<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref> he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows:<ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

The Venus project makes verbal agreement that all funds raised go back to developing the project, which provide a viable alternative to the market system, for when the market economy falls their solution will provide. As mentioned by Jacque and Roxanne, it is imperative that a motion picture be made before Jacque dies, so that the vision will be readily and easily accessible and apprehensible into the far future. This would continue the cause into building a research city founded on principles laid out by Jacque, establish through years research, experience and experiment.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Donations and how they are used|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjNg7i2zNk&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

[[Category:Organizations based in Florida]]
[[Category:Zeitgeist]]

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[[bg:Проект Венера]]
[[es:Proyecto Venus]]
[[fr:The Venus Project]]
[[hr:Projekt Venus]]
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[[no:Venus prosjektet]]
[[pl:The Venus Project]]
[[pt:Projeto Venus]]
[[ro:Proiectul Venus]]
[[tr:Venüs Projesi]]

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{{Cite check|date=June 2011}}
{{Refimprove|date=June 2011}}
{{Cleanup|date=June 2011}}

{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Organization]]
|website = {{URL|www.thevenusproject.com}}
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas.

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} Fresco theorizes that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]] would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}} Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>

== Aims and goals of the project ==
<ref>{{cite web|title=Aim and proposals|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals|publisher=Venus Project}}</ref>
# Realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people.
# Transcending the artificial boundaries that currently and arbitrarily separate people.
# Replacing money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.
# Assisting in stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth control.
# Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
# Redesigning cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants so that they are energy efficient, clean, and able to conveniently serve the needs of all people.
# Gradually outgrowing corporate entities and governments, (local, national, or supra-national) as means of social management.
# Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
# Developing and using clean renewable energy sources.
# Manufacturing the highest quality products for the benefit of the world’s people.
# Requiring environmental impact studies prior to construction of any mega projects.
# Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavour.
# Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.
# Eliminating elitism, technical or otherwise.
# Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
# Enhancing communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical conditions of the world.
# Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
# Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.

==Resource-based economy ([[sustainability|Sustainable]], [[Automation|Automated]], Free goods and services)==
=== Keywords ===
[[sustainability|Sustainable]], [[Automation|Automated]], Free goods and services, [[common ownership|Common heritage of global resources]], Scientific method, [[Cybernetics|Cybernated]] systems approach

==== The concept of a sustainable cybernated economy ====

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and [[technology|technological advancement]]. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see [[Star network]]), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently.<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy uses machines as labour to deliver goods and services from resource mining to the finished product, distribution centers with drive-throughs for each category that consumers collect and courier home, and there is no cost to them, the cost is the energy and resource used in the process, which fall onto automated machines to regulate, alleviating the workload from consumers.

In the market economy, the one based on the flow of money; labour is required from consumers in sectors of industry to produce goods and services, to manage this there must be scarcity enough to motivate labour, and on needs such as food and shelter that can be kept scarce artificially to maintain a workforce. Those of lavish lifestyle, with the better quality of life, are the ones that manage the labour-consumer market, and as these are the prime vehicles of the market economy, wealth may readily accumulate into their ownership. The most wealthy and powerful hold resources as a bargain-chip to stimulate labour to produce goods and services for society and luxury for the rich and powerful. A dependent relation exists between the worker and the governors that maintains the stability of the market economy, yet simply sustaining the economy may evolve into exploitation of workers, maintaining them at subsistence level while profiting wealth, resource and luxury.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Venus Project-Scarcity, Justice, Transition, Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/thevenusprojectmedia#p/u/52/e66jQ-pZYnc}}</ref>

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not profit and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref name="The Venus Project">{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government.<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices,<ref name="The Venus Project"/> and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality,<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref> he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows:<ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

The Venus project makes verbal agreement that all funds raised go back to developing the project, which provide a viable alternative to the market system, for when the market economy falls their solution will provide. As mentioned by Jacque and Roxanne, it is imperative that a motion picture be made before Jacque dies, so that the vision will be readily and easily accessible and apprehensible into the far future. This would continue the cause into building a research city founded on principles laid out by Jacque, establish through years research, experience and experiment.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Donations and how they are used|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjNg7i2zNk&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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{{Infobox organization
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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} Fresco theorizes that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]] would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}} Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>

==Resource-based economy (or cybernated gift economy based on global resource)==
=== Essential factors ===

* Common global ownership <ref>{{cite web|title= In Phase 3 point 1; it states a prime foal is a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds aka common global ownership of resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Sustainability]] <ref>{{cite web|title=Sustainability is maintained as a prime component|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Mechanisation|Cybernated]] [[Gift Economy]] <ref>{{cite web|title=This 2nd party source makes the analysis, a parallel between a Gift economy and a resource based economy|url=http://www.theresourcebasedeconomy.com/2011/04/the-resource-based-gift-economy/}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and routine goverance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Queston 66 - Will people who do more WORK, such as doctors, demand more resources then someone like an artist? - mentions that goods and services are gifts aka without a price tag|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> (based on global resources, compiled into global manifest of resources, inferring the [[carrying capacity]] of the Earth,<ref>{{cite web|title=Zeitgeist Addendum @ 1h.12m.13s|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg}}</ref> and determining strategies of sustainability and social well-being)
* Cybernated Maintenance of Routine Governance <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and cybernated maintenance of routine governance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>
* Integrated [[Global civics|Global Culture]] <ref>{{cite web|title=See Phase 3 - Point 2; states the merging integration culture in an essentially Integrated Global Culture|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>

==== The Concept of a cybernated gift economy based on global resources ====

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and [[technology|technological advancement]]. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see [[Star network]]), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently.<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy uses machines as labour to deliver goods and services from resource mining to the finished product, distribution centers with drive-throughs for each category that consumers collect and courier home, and there is no cost to them, the cost is the energy and resource used in the process, which fall onto automated machines to regulate, alleviating the workload from consumers.

In the market economy, the one based on the flow of money; labour is required from consumers in sectors of industry to produce goods and services, to manage this there must be scarcity enough to motivate labour, and on needs such as food and shelter that can be kept scarce artificially to maintain a workforce. Those of lavish lifestyle, with the better quality of life, are the ones that manage the labour-consumer market, and as these are the prime vehicles of the market economy, wealth may readily accumulate into their ownership. The most wealthy and powerful hold resources as a bargain-chip to stimulate labour to produce goods and services for society and luxury for the rich and powerful. A dependent relation exists between the worker and the governors that maintains the stability of the market economy, yet simply sustaining the economy may evolve into exploitation of workers, maintaining them at subsistence level while profiting wealth, resource and luxury.<ref>{{cite web|title=Outlines the problem and solution to exploitation inherent to the monetary system|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/thevenusprojectmedia#p/u/52/e66jQ-pZYnc}}</ref>

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not profit and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref name="The Venus Project">{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government.<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices,<ref name="The Venus Project"/> and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality,<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref> he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows:<ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

The Venus project makes verbal agreement that all funds raised go back to developing the project, which provide a viable alternative to the market system, for when the market economy falls their solution will provide. As mentioned by Jacque and Roxanne, it is imperative that a motion picture be made before Jacque dies, so that the vision will be readily and easily accessible and apprehensible into the far future. This would continue the cause into building a research city founded on principles laid out by Jacque, establish through years research, experience and experiment.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Donations and how they are used|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjNg7i2zNk&feature=channel_video_title}}</ref>

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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{{Infobox organization
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|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Organization]]
|website = {{URL|www.thevenusproject.com}}
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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} Fresco theorizes that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]] would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}} Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>

==Resource-based economy (or cybernated gift economy based on global resource)==
=== Essential factors ===

* Common global ownership <ref>{{cite web|title= In Phase 3 point 1; it states a prime foal is a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds aka common global ownership of resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Sustainability]] <ref>{{cite web|title=Sustainability is maintained as a prime component|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Mechanisation|Cybernated]] [[Gift Economy]] <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and routine goverance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Queston 66 - Will people who do more WORK, such as doctors, demand more resources then someone like an artist? - mentions that goods and services are gifts aka without a price tag|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> (based on global resources, compiled into global manifest of resources, inferring the [[carrying capacity]] of the Earth<ref>{{cite web|title=Zeitgeist Addendum @ 1h.12m.13s|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg}}</ref>, and determining strategies of sustainability and social well-being)
* Cybernated Maintenance of Routine Governance <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and cybernated maintenance of routine governance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>
* Integrated [[Global civics|Global Culture]] <ref>{{cite web|title=See Phase 3 - Point 2; states the merging integration culture in an essentially Integrated Global Culture|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>

==== The Concept of a cybernated gift economy based on global resources ====

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and [[technology|technological advancement]]. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see [[Star network]]), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently. <ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows: <ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} Fresco theorizes that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]] would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}} Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>

==Resource-based economy (or cybernated gift economy based on global resource)==
=== Essential factors ===

* Common global ownership <ref>{{cite web|title= In Phase 3 point 1; it states a prime foal is a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds aka common global ownership of resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Sustainability]] <ref>{{cite web|title=Sustainability is maintained as a prime component|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Mechanisation|Cybernated]] [[Gift Economy]] <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and routine goverance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Queston 66 - Will people who do more WORK, such as doctors, demand more resources then someone like an artist? - mentions that goods and services are gifts aka without a price tag|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> (based on global resources, compiled into global manifest of resources, inferring the [[carrying capacity]] of the Earth<ref>{{cite web|title=Zeitgeist Addendum @ 1h.12m.13s|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg}}</ref>, and determining strategies of sustainability and social well-being)
* Cybernated Maintenance of Routine Governance <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and cybernated maintenance of routine governance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>
* Integrated [[Global civics|Global Culture]] <ref>{{cite web|title=See Phase 3 - Point 2; states the merging integration culture in an essentially Integrated Global Culture|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>

==== The Concept of a cybernated gift economy based on global resources ====

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and [[technology|technological advancement]]. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see [[Star network]]), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently. <ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows: <ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

=== Criticism ===
{{Original research|section|date=June 2011}}
====Anti-market bias====
In [[The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter:_Why_Democracies_Choose_Bad_Policies#Anti-market_bias]], Caplan refers to the anti-market bias as a “tendency to underestimate the benefits of the market mechanism.”<ref>Bryan Caplan, ''The Myth of the Rational Voter'', pp 30.</ref> In Caplan's view, the populace tends to view themselves as victims of the market, rather than participants of it. Corporations, and even small-scale suppliers, are seen as greedy monopolists that prey on the consumer. Caplan argues that all trade is a two-way street. Cheating people is bad for business and the existence of multiple firms offering similar products demonstrates there is competition, not monopoly power.

==== Slow progress ====
Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref>

===== Counter-point{{clarify}} =====
According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

==== Lack of detail concerning its functioning ====
{{Unreferenced|section|date=June 2011}}
The Zeitgeist movement and the Venus project do not detail the actual process of obtaining goods or services. How would it work? Would we get a ratio of goods and services based on what's needed globally? Are needs going to be different from nation to nation as a result of culture? Many details are going to be left untouched when considering an idea at a general level. However, these untouched details are crucial to the separation of usable ideas and utopias. For instance, consider a transition from monetary system to non-monetary resource based economy. Money is returned to the governments central banks and the banking system then dissolved as the various financial institutions and markets around the world. In order to transition, humanity would have to produce enough machines to replace all workforce worldwide. Not to mention the difficulty of recreating the human factor for some occupations. How would the quality of life be affected?

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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{{Infobox organization
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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} Fresco theorizes that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]] would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}} Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>

==Resource-based economy (or cybernated gift economy based on global resource)==
=== Essential factors ===

* Common global ownership <ref>{{cite web|title= In Phase 3 point 1; it states a prime foal is a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds aka common global ownership of resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Sustainability]] <ref>{{cite web|title=Sustainability is maintained as a prime component|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Mechanisation|Cybernated]] [[Gift Economy]] <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and routine goverance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Queston 66 - Will people who do more WORK, such as doctors, demand more resources then someone like an artist? - mentions that goods and services are gifts aka without a price tag|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> (based on global resources, compiled into global manifest of resources, inferring the [[carrying capacity]] of the Earth<ref>{{cite web|title=Zeitgeist Addendum @ 1h.12m.13s|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg}}</ref>, and determining strategies of sustainability and social well-being)
* Cybernated Maintenance of Routine Governance <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and cybernated maintenance of routine governance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>
* Integrated [[Global civics|Global Culture]] <ref>{{cite web|title=See Phase 3 - Point 2; states the merging integration culture in an essentially Integrated Global Culture|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>

==== The Concept of a cybernated gift economy based on global resources ====

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and [[technology|technological advancement]]. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see [[Star network]]), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently. <ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows: <ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

=== Criticism ===
{{Original research|section|date=June 2011}}
====Anti-market bias====
In [[The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter:_Why_Democracies_Choose_Bad_Policies#Anti-market_bias]], Caplan refers to the anti-market bias as a “tendency to underestimate the benefits of the market mechanism.”<ref>Bryan Caplan, ''The Myth of the Rational Voter'', pp 30.</ref> In Caplan's view, the populace tends to view themselves as victims of the market, rather than participants of it. Corporations, and even small-scale suppliers, are seen as greedy monopolists that prey on the consumer. Caplan argues that all trade is a two-way street. Cheating people is bad for business and the existence of multiple firms offering similar products demonstrates there is competition, not monopoly power.

==== Slow progress ====
Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref>

===== Counter-point =====
According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

==== Lack of detail concerning its functioning ====
{{unreferenced|section}}
The Zeitgeist movement and the Venus project do not detail the actual process of obtaining goods or services. How would it work? Would we get a ratio of goods and services based on what's needed globally? Are needs going to be different from nation to nation as a result of culture? Many details are going to be left untouched when considering an idea at a general level. However, these untouched details are crucial to the separation of usable ideas and utopias. For instance, consider a transition from monetary system to non-monetary resource based economy. Money is returned to the governments central banks and the banking system then dissolved as the various financial institutions and markets around the world. In order to transition, humanity would have to produce enough machines to replace all workforce worldwide. Not to mention the difficulty of recreating the human factor for some occupations. How would the quality of life be affected?

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} Fresco theorizes that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]] would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}} Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>

==Resource-based economy (or cybernated gift economy based on global resource)==
=== Essential factors ===

* Common global ownership <ref>{{cite web|title= In Phase 3 point 1; it states a prime foal is a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds aka common global ownership of resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Sustainability]] <ref>{{cite web|title=Sustainability is maintained as a prime component|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Mechanisation|Cybernated]] [[Gift Economy]] <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and routine goverance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Queston 66 - Will people who do more WORK, such as doctors, demand more resources then someone like an artist? - mentions that goods and services are gifts aka without a price tag|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> (based on global resources, compiled into global manifest of resources, inferring the [[carrying capacity]] of the Earth<ref>{{cite web|title=Zeitgeist Addendum @ 1h.12m.13s|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg}}</ref>, and determining strategies of sustainability and social well-being)
* Cybernated Maintenance of Routine Governance <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and cybernated maintenance of routine governance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>
* Integrated [[Global civics|Global Culture]] <ref>{{cite web|title=See Phase 3 - Point 2; states the merging integration culture in an essentially Integrated Global Culture|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>

==== The Concept of a cybernated gift economy based on global resources ====

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of [[abundance|availability]], [[sustainability]] and [[technology|technological advancement]]. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see [[Star network]]), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently. <ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2011-05-29}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows: <ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre ✔
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

=== Criticism ===
{{Original research|section|date=June 2011}}
====Anti-market bias====
In [[The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter:_Why_Democracies_Choose_Bad_Policies#Anti-market_bias]], Caplan refers to the anti-market bias as a “tendency to underestimate the benefits of the market mechanism.”<ref>Bryan Caplan, ''The Myth of the Rational Voter'', pp 30.</ref> In Caplan's view, the populace tends to view themselves as victims of the market, rather than participants of it. Corporations, and even small-scale suppliers, are seen as greedy monopolists that prey on the consumer. Caplan argues that all trade is a two-way street. Cheating people is bad for business and the existence of multiple firms offering similar products demonstrates there is competition, not monopoly power.

==== Slow progress ====
Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref>

===== Counter-point =====
According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

==== Lack of detail concerning its functioning ====

The Zeitgeist movement and the Venus project do not detail the actual process of obtaining goods or services. How would it work? Would we get a ratio of goods and services based on what's needed globally? Are needs going to be different from nation to nation as a result of culture? Many details are going to be left untouched when considering an idea at a general level. However, these untouched details are crucial to the separation of usable ideas and utopias. For instance, consider a transition from monetary system to non-monetary resource based economy. Money is returned to the governments central banks and the banking system then dissolved as the various financial institutions and markets around the world. In order to transition, humanity would have to produce enough machines to replace all workforce worldwide. Not to mention the difficulty of recreating the human factor for some occupations. How would the quality of life be affected?

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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OpenFuture: /* Criticism */

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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} Fresco theorizes that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]] would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}} Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>

==Resource-based economy (or cybernated gift economy based on global resource)==
=== Essential factors ===

* Common global ownership <ref>{{cite web|title= In Phase 3 point 1; it states a prime foal is a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds aka common global ownership of resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Sustainability]] <ref>{{cite web|title=Sustainability is maintained as a prime component|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Mechanisation|Cybernated]] [[Gift Economy]] <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and routine goverance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Queston 66 - Will people who do more WORK, such as doctors, demand more resources then someone like an artist? - mentions that goods and services are gifts aka without a price tag|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> (based on global resources, compiled into global manifest of resources, inferring the [[carrying capacity]] of the Earth<ref>{{cite web|title=Zeitgeist Addendum @ 1h.12m.13s|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg}}</ref>, and determining strategies of sustainability and social well-being)
* Cybernated Maintenance of Routine Governance <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and cybernated maintenance of routine governance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>
* Integrated [[Global civics|Global Culture]] <ref>{{cite web|title=See Phase 3 - Point 2; states the merging integration culture in an essentially Integrated Global Culture|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows: <ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

=== Criticism ===
{{original research|section}}
====Anti-market bias====
In [[The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter:_Why_Democracies_Choose_Bad_Policies#Anti-market_bias]], Caplan refers to the anti-market bias as a “tendency to underestimate the benefits of the market mechanism.”<ref>Bryan Caplan, ''The Myth of the Rational Voter'', pp 30.</ref> In Caplan's view, the populace tends to view themselves as victims of the market, rather than participants of it. Corporations, and even small-scale suppliers, are seen as greedy monopolists that prey on the consumer. Caplan argues that all trade is a two-way street. Cheating people is bad for business and the existence of multiple firms offering similar products demonstrates there is competition, not monopoly power.

==== Slow progress ====
Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref>

===== Counter-point =====
According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

==== Lack of detail concerning its functioning ====

The Zeitgeist movement and the Venus project do not detail the actual process of obtaining goods or services. How would it work? Would we get a ratio of goods and services based on what's needed globally? Are needs going to be different from nation to nation as a result of culture? Many details are going to be left untouched when considering an idea at a general level. However, these untouched details are crucial to the separation of usable ideas and utopias. For instance, consider a transition from monetary system to non-monetary resource based economy. Money is returned to the governments central banks and the banking system then dissolved as the various financial institutions and markets around the world. In order to transition, humanity would have to produce enough machines to replace all workforce worldwide. Not to mention the difficulty of recreating the human factor for some occupations. How would the quality of life be affected?

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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OpenFuture: /* The major crux it rides on */ Oh no. The major crux is that Fresco knows nothing about economics and simply is fundamentally incorrect. Sorry.

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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} Fresco theorizes that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]] would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2011}} Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>

==Resource-based economy (or cybernated gift economy based on global resource)==
=== Essential factors ===

* Common global ownership <ref>{{cite web|title= In Phase 3 point 1; it states a prime foal is a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds aka common global ownership of resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Sustainability]] <ref>{{cite web|title=Sustainability is maintained as a prime component|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* [[Mechanisation|Cybernated]] [[Gift Economy]] <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and routine goverance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Queston 66 - Will people who do more WORK, such as doctors, demand more resources then someone like an artist? - mentions that goods and services are gifts aka without a price tag|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref> (based on global resources, compiled into global manifest of resources, inferring the [[carrying capacity]] of the Earth<ref>{{cite web|title=Zeitgeist Addendum @ 1h.12m.13s|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg}}</ref>, and determining strategies of sustainability and social well-being)
* Cybernated Maintenance of Routine Governance <ref>{{cite web|title=Question 52 - What is the role of CYBERNATION as Decision Makers? - Includes economics and cybernated maintenance of routine governance|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>
* Integrated [[Global civics|Global Culture]] <ref>{{cite web|title=See Phase 3 - Point 2; states the merging integration culture in an essentially Integrated Global Culture|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>

=== Relation to the market economy ===
A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Critical Theory of the Market Economy ===
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows: <ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

=== Criticism ===

====Anti-market bias====
In [[The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter:_Why_Democracies_Choose_Bad_Policies#Anti-market_bias]], Caplan refers to the anti-market bias as a “tendency to underestimate the benefits of the market mechanism.”<ref>Bryan Caplan, ''The Myth of the Rational Voter'', pp 30.</ref> In Caplan's view, the populace tends to view themselves as victims of the market, rather than participants of it. Corporations, and even small-scale suppliers, are seen as greedy monopolists that prey on the consumer. Caplan argues that all trade is a two-way street. Cheating people is bad for business and the existence of multiple firms offering similar products demonstrates there is competition, not monopoly power.

==== Slow progress ====
Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref>

===== Counter-point =====
According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

==== Lack of detail concerning its functioning ====

The Zeitgeist movement and the Venus project do not detail the actual process of obtaining goods or services. How would it work? Would we get a ratio of goods and services based on what's needed globally? Are needs going to be different from nation to nation as a result of culture? Many details are going to be left untouched when considering an idea at a general level. However, these untouched details are crucial to the separation of usable ideas and utopias. For instance, consider a transition from monetary system to non-monetary resource based economy. Money is returned to the governments central banks and the banking system then dissolved as the various financial institutions and markets around the world. In order to transition, humanity would have to produce enough machines to replace all workforce worldwide. Not to mention the difficulty of recreating the human factor for some occupations. How would the quality of life be affected?

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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Das Venus Projekt

2011-06-01T08:52:16Z

OpenFuture: /* History */ Linked to the archive.org version.

{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Social movement]]
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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{verification failed}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.{{cn}} Fresco theorizes that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]] would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>{{verification failed}} Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090427000456/http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows: <ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== Criticisms of a resource-based economy ==

Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref> According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

[[Category:Organizations based in Florida]]
[[Category:Zeitgeist]]

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[[bg:Проект Венера]]
[[es:Proyecto Venus]]
[[fr:The Venus Project]]
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[[pl:The Venus Project]]
[[pt:Projeto Venus]]
[[ro:Proiectul Venus]]
[[tr:Venüs Projesi]]

Das Venus Projekt

2011-06-01T08:49:30Z

OpenFuture: /* History */ Not in source + unreliable.

{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Social movement]]
|website = {{URL|www.thevenusproject.com}}
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{verification failed}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.{{cn}} Fresco theorizes that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]] would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows: <ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== Criticisms of a resource-based economy ==

Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref> According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

[[Category:Organizations based in Florida]]
[[Category:Zeitgeist]]

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Das Venus Projekt

2011-06-01T08:46:56Z

OpenFuture: /* History */ Removed broken citation from unreliable source that didn't verify anyway when viewed on archive.org.

{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Social movement]]
|website = {{URL|www.thevenusproject.com}}
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{verification failed}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.{{cn}} The advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovieimdb">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows: <ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== Criticisms of a resource-based economy ==

Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref> According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

[[Category:Organizations based in Florida]]
[[Category:Zeitgeist]]

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[[bg:Проект Венера]]
[[es:Proyecto Venus]]
[[fr:The Venus Project]]
[[hr:Projekt Venus]]
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[[no:Venus prosjektet]]
[[pl:The Venus Project]]
[[pt:Projeto Venus]]
[[ro:Proiectul Venus]]
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Das Venus Projekt

2011-06-01T08:44:21Z

OpenFuture: /* History */ The link claims it's a non-profit.

{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Social movement]]
|website = {{URL|www.thevenusproject.com}}
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{verification failed}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.<ref name="Artivist">[http://www.artivists.org/index.htm Breaking News], Artivist Film Festival website.</ref>{{Citation broken|date=March 2011}} The advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovieimdb">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows: <ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== Criticisms of a resource-based economy ==

Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref> According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

[[Category:Organizations based in Florida]]
[[Category:Zeitgeist]]

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Das Venus Projekt

2011-06-01T08:34:23Z

OpenFuture: /* Transition proposals */ sp

{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Social movement]]
|website = {{URL|www.thevenusproject.com}}
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.<ref name="Artivist">[http://www.artivists.org/index.htm Breaking News], Artivist Film Festival website.</ref>{{Citation broken|date=March 2011}} The advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovieimdb">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transition to a resource based economy is as follows: <ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== Criticisms of a resource-based economy ==

Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref> According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

[[Category:Organizations based in Florida]]
[[Category:Zeitgeist]]

[[br:Venus project]]
[[bg:Проект Венера]]
[[es:Proyecto Venus]]
[[fr:The Venus Project]]
[[hr:Projekt Venus]]
[[it:Venus Project]]
[[hu:Vénusz projekt]]
[[no:Venus prosjektet]]
[[pl:The Venus Project]]
[[pt:Projeto Venus]]
[[ro:Proiectul Venus]]
[[tr:Venüs Projesi]]

Das Venus Projekt

2011-06-01T08:34:04Z

OpenFuture: /* Transition proposals */ Maybe not.

{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Social movement]]
|website = {{URL|www.thevenusproject.com}}
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.<ref name="Artivist">[http://www.artivists.org/index.htm Breaking News], Artivist Film Festival website.</ref>{{Citation broken|date=March 2011}} The advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovieimdb">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transision to a resource based economy is as follows: <ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>
* Phase One - build a research centre
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== Criticisms of a resource-based economy ==

Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref> According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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[[Category:Zeitgeist]]

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{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Social movement]]
|website = {{URL|www.thevenusproject.com}}
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.<ref name="Artivist">[http://www.artivists.org/index.htm Breaking News], Artivist Film Festival website.</ref>{{Citation broken|date=March 2011}} The advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovieimdb">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Transition proposals ===
The proposed was to transision to a resource based economy is as follows: <ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>{{better source}}
* Phase One - build a research centre
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== Criticisms of a resource-based economy ==

Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref> According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

[[Category:Organizations based in Florida]]
[[Category:Zeitgeist]]

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[[es:Proyecto Venus]]
[[fr:The Venus Project]]
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2011-06-01T08:31:11Z

OpenFuture: The purpose of Wikipedia is not to duplicate information on a organisations website.

{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Social movement]]
|website = {{URL|www.thevenusproject.com}}
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.<ref name="Artivist">[http://www.artivists.org/index.htm Breaking News], Artivist Film Festival website.</ref>{{Citation broken|date=March 2011}} The advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovieimdb">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Transition proposals<ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref> ===
* Phase One - build a research centre
* Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally
* Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype)
* Phase Four - build a theme park

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== Criticisms of a resource-based economy ==

Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref> According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "[[resource-based economy]]". Such a system incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[value (ethics)|values]], [[energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco on the Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale model]]s based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a [[non-profit company]] called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that [[poverty]] is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.<ref name="Artivist">[http://www.artivists.org/index.htm Breaking News], Artivist Film Festival website.</ref>{{Citation broken|date=March 2011}} The advance of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovieimdb">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the advance of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=The Future and Beyond}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource-based economy". Such a system uses existing resources, rather than money, to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==

A resource-based economy aims to supplant the [[market economy]] as the entity to which people turn for goods and services. It aims essentially to take the market out of the market economy replacing it with automation based on the rationale that machines do not seek profit like people and do not maintain an environment of scarcity<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#the}}</ref> to gain indebtedness and servitude from the population{{Clarify|date=May 2011}}. Machines would act as the mediator to deliver goods and service to people in-place of the market and the government<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 52: What is the role of Cybernation as Decision Makers?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ- 48: How are Resources Distributed Equitably?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq}}</ref>. According to Fresco, scarcity is maintained and regulated by the market{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} which leads to an increase in prices <ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ - 6: What are some of the detrimental effects of The Monetary System?|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq|author=The Venus Project}}</ref>, and people need to work harder to pay higher prices; the labour and wealth distribution is according to Fresco controlled by markets, people cannot always receive goods and services they need, although Fresco maintains that a superabundance of resource exists in reality<ref>{{cite web|title=Resource Based Economy|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy}}</ref>, he claims greed and power inherent in the market economy denies them access. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that, with modern technology and judicious efficiency, the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limits of what is deemed possible because of notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion{{Clarify|date=May 2011}} in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource-Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

=== Transition proposals<ref>{{cite web|title=Phases of the transition are expressed|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref> ===
==== Phase One - build a research centre ====
* Construct a 25-arce research centre in Venus, Florida to help present the proposals of the Venus Project raising public awareness.
The centre is built, and underway presenting the venus project with videos, pamphlets, books like ''The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, and War''; "created to help raise awareness about this project and its many proposals".

==== Phase Two - produce a full-length feature film to premiere globally ====

* Produce of a full-length feature film expressing the potential benefits of "proposals advanced by the Venus Project", providing a "positive vision of a peaceful society in which all human beings form a global family on planet Earth. A civilization in which all people are engaged in the pursuit of a better understanding of the world they share. This film has been designed to be an entertaining and educational experience for both adults and children".

This is where the progress is presently.

==== Phase Three - construct an experimental research city (test prototype) ====

* Raise the funds to help support construct of an experiment research city.
* Construct an experimental research city.
* In the construction of the research city, test designs and proposals of the Venus Project with the experimental research city.
** Blueprints for most of the initial technologies and buildings have begun.
* Devote the city toward the the aims and goals of the Venus Project, which are:
*# (Global [[Common ownership]]) Realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people.
*# (Global [[Transculturation]]) Transcending the artificial boundaries that currently and arbitrarily separate people.
*# ([[Transnationalism]]) Replacing money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.
*# Assisting in stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth control.
*# Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
*# Redesigning cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants so that they are energy efficient, clean, and able to conveniently serve the needs of all people.
*# (Anarchism) Gradually outgrowing corporate entities and governments, (local, national, or supra-national) as means of social management.
*# Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
*# ([[Sustainable energy]]) Developing and using clean renewable energy sources.
*# Manufacturing the highest quality products for the benefit of the world’s people.
*# Requiring environmental impact studies prior to construction of any mega projects.
*# Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavour.
*# Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.
*# Eliminating elitism, technical or otherwise.
*# Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
*# Enhancing communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical conditions of the world.
*# Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
*# Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.

This is simultaneously is progress as the second phase as they are also rising funding for this as well as the feature film.

==== Phase Four - build a theme park ====

* After the research city, have a theme park built to parade and exhibit aspects of the Venus Project vision in demonstrations to entertain and inform "about the possibilities for humane and environmentally friendly life-styles planned by the Venus Project", featuring:
** intelligent houses
** high-efficiency, non polluting transportation systems
** advanced computer technology
** a number of other innovations that can add value to the lives of all people - in a very short period of time.

==== Summarizing passage ====

"No one can actually predict the future. We can only extrapolate on present information and trends. Population growth, technological change, worldwide environmental conditions, and available resources are the primary criteria for future projections.

There is no single philosophy or point of view whether religious, political, scientific, or ideological, that someone would not take issue with. We feel certain, however, that the only aspects of The Venus Project that may appear threatening are those which others project onto it.

The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves."

===== Patterns in their strategy =====
* Phase one promotes and illustrates with art and live demonstration of its architecture at the research centre.
* Phase two promotes and illustrates with motion picture showing the life of citizens within the actualized vision.
* Phase three promotes and illustrates with live demonstration; unknown if the public is allowed at this time.
* Phase four promotes and illustrates with live demonstration available to public.

At each phase, the public is made at home and brought into familiarity with the vision, as their experience becomes vivid and complete, Fresco judges a likelihood that as the fruits of the vision outweigh that of the market economy, when it is shown redundant, the world will act to adopt the vision and start its global implementation.

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Venus Project. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released. As of April 2011, the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project have split ways and are no longer functioning as a partnership.<ref>[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=229&id=334057&Itemid=100114&lang=en "Chapter instructions: April 2011"]</ref>

== Criticisms of a resource-based economy ==

Despite the stated goal of building a better world and abolishing the monetary system, the Venus Project does little if nothing to further these goals. The only activities asked of by activists involve producing a new movie and gathering donations to finance a new movie.<ref>[http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/get-involved/global-activism-teams]</ref><ref>http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture</ref> According Fresco, after a feature film has been presented around the global to generate awareness and support, and the first city for research built, their first objective is the actualization of a treatise "realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people"<ref>{{cite web|title=Phase 2 + Phase 3 point 1 states about a feature film to gain more awareness, and after a research city is built as demonstrate, lobbying for a treatise declaring the common heritage of the worlds resources|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/aims-proposals}}</ref>; which is essentially [[common ownership]] applied globally set apart from the market economy that usually comes with it, such as in the case with [[communism]]. This declaration is a key component of the vision, just as a key component of the market economy is exclusive ownership of resources that create competition and eventually monopolies on resource ownership by a minorities; all of which keeps the majority in bonds of indebtedness and servitude, as markets manipulate the economy to drive profits at their expense; thus it is an essential step that exclusivity of resource ownership be amended [[transnationalism|transnationally]] in law back to the default [[common ownership]] of early human settlements.

== See also ==
* [[Garden City Movement]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|www.thevenusproject.com}}

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Freie Assoziation (Kommunismus und Anarchismus)

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In the [[anarchism|anarchist]], [[communism|communist]] and [[socialist]] sense, '''free association''' (also called ''free association of producers'' or, as Marx often called it, ''community of freely associated individuals'') is a kind of relation between individuals where there is no [[State (polity)|state]], [[social class]] or [[authority]], in a society that had abolished the [[private property]] of [[means of production]]. Once private property is abolished, individuals are no longer deprived of access to means of production so they can freely associate themselves (without social constraint) to produce and reproduce their own conditions of existence and fulfill their needs and desires.

The concept of free association, however, becomes more clear around the concept of the [[proletariat]]. The proletarian is someone who has no property nor any means of production and, therefore, to survive, sells the only thing that he has, his abilities (the [[labour power]]), to those owning the means of production. The existence of individuals deprived of property, deprived of livelihood, allows owners (or capitalists) to find in the market an object of consumption that thinks and acts (human abilities), which they use in order to accumulate increasingly capital in exchange for the wage that maintains the survival of the proletarians. The relationship between proletarians and owners of the means of production is thereby a forced association in which the proletarian is only free to sell his labor power, in order to survive. By selling his productive capacity in exchange for the wage which ensures survival, the proletarian puts his practical activity under the will of the buyer (the owner), becoming [[Marx's theory of alienation|alienated]] from his/her own actions and products, in a relationship of domination and exploitation. Free association would be the form of society created if private property was abolished in order to allow individuals to freely dispose of the means of production, which would bring about an end to class society, i.e. there would be no more owners neither proletarians, nor state, but only freely associated individuals.

The abolition of private property by a free association of producers is the original goal of the communists and anarchists: it is identified with ''anarchy'' and ''Communism'' itself. However, the evolution of various trends have led some to virtually abandon the goal or to put it in the background in face of other tasks, while others trends consider free association as something that should guide the all practical activity of the contestation of the ''status quo''.

==Anarchists==
{{Anarchism sidebar}}

Anarchists argue that the free association must rise immediately in the struggle of the proletariat for a new society and against the ruling class. So they preach a social revolution that immediately abolish the state, private property and classes. They identify the state as the main guarantor of private property (through the repressive apparatus: the police, justice), hence the abolition of the state is their main target. There is a difference between [[collectivist anarchism|collectivist anarchists]] and [[anarchist communism|anarchist communists]]: the collectivist anarchists ([[Mikhail Bakunin]] and [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]], for example) argue that free association is to function as the maxim "to each according to his deeds". In contraposition the anarcho-communists (such as [[Peter Kropotkin]], [[Carlo Cafiero]] and [[Errico Malatesta]]) argue that free association should operate as the maxim "[[From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs]]". Anarchist communists argue against the collectivists that remuneration according to work performed require that the individuals involved were subjected to a body above them to compare the various works in order to pay them, and that this body would necessarily be a state or ruling class, would bring back even [[wage slavery]], that is the very thing against which anarchists are fighting. They also argue that if any work is done, it is necessary and important, there is no quantitative aspect to comparate between them, and that everything is produced involves as something essential the contribution of all past and contemporary generations as a whole. Therefore, there are not fair criterion to compare a work with another and measure it to give every one his share. For the anarcho-communists, therefore, free association is possible only through the abolition of money and the market, along with the abolition of the state.<ref>Kropotkin, Peter. The Wages System. 1920. Also available: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1920/wage.htm</ref><ref>Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, New York: Vanguard Press, 1929. [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/ANARCHIST_ARCHIVES/bright/berkman/communistanarchy.pdf]</ref>

==Marxists==
{{Marxist theory}}

The [[Socialism (Marxism)|Marxian Socialists]] and [[Communism|Communists]] generally differ from anarchists in claiming that there must be an intermediate stage between the capitalist society and free association. But there are major differences between the various Marxists trends. The Marx position about this transition period ranged from "the expansion of the means of production owned by the state" <ref>[[Manifesto of the Communist Party]], section "Proletarians and communists"</ref> to the clear statement that the state machinery can not be assumed by the workers, but destroyed.<ref>[[the Civil War in France]], Marx</ref> Therefore, Marx's writings gave rise to three basic trends: [[Democratic Socialism]], [[Leninism]] and [[Libertarian Marxism]]. Democratic Socialism (e.g., [[Eduard Bernstein]] and [[Karl Kautsky]]) argues that the advent of free association will come gradually through reforms made by representatives elected in a democratic state. Leninists (such as [[Lenin]] and [[Trotsky]]) argue that it will come only after reforms that they themselves make after taking power through a coup, a political revolution. The content of these reforms, for both Democratic Socialism and Leninism, would be the transfer of private property into the hands of the state, which would keep the rest of society deprived of access to means of production, as in capitalism, but it would be used to fight the bourgeoisie and direct the society towards free association in the future. Libertarian Marxists (e.g., [[Anton Pannekoek]], [[Otto Rühle]], [[Herman Gorter]] and [[Rosa Luxemburg]]) generally claim that the state can not be directed towards the free association because it can only act within the frame of capitalist society itself, leading towards a [[state capitalism]] (i.e., capitalism in which privative property is owned by state) which would seek to remain indefinitely, and never lead to free association. Most Libertarian Marxists claim that free association can only be achieved through the [[direct action]] of workers themselves, which should create [[workers' councils]] (which operate under [[direct democracy]]) to take the means of production and abolish the state in a social revolution.<ref>The Thin Red Line: Non-Market Socialism in the Twentieth Century, John Crump (1987) [http://www.theoryandpractice.org.uk/library/thin-red-line-non-market-socialism-twentieth-century-john-crump-1987]</ref><ref>Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement, by Francois Martin and Jean Barrot [http://libcom.org/library/eclipse-re-emergence-communist-movement]</ref> Although Luxemburgists are not opposed in principle to short-term participation within the state as long as the institution itself exists.

==Socialists==
{{Socialism sidebar}}

Socialists consider a free association the defining feature of developed [[socialism]]. A free association would displace the [[Sovereign state|state apparatus]] in socialism; the role of this association in would be directing the processes of production and the administration of things. This is in contrast to the state in non-socialist and capitalist society, which is the government over people via coercive action.<ref>''Socialism: Utopian and Scientific'', on Marxists.org: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch01.htm: "The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of society—the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society—this is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not “abolished.” It dies out."</ref> The free association represents a coordinating entity for economic activity that is concerned with administrative decision-making and the flow of goods and services to satisfy demand.<ref>''The Alternative to Capitalism'', on WSPUS.org: http://wspus.org/in-depth/the-alternative-to-capitalism/</ref> Socialists consider this a defining element of mature socialism; however many socialists are of the opinion that such an arrangement will follow a transitional phase of economic and social development, such as [[market socialism]].

==Critical views==

The anarchist and communist concept of free association is often considered [[utopia]]n or too abstract to guide a transforming society. It would be in the dream plane. However, it is valued by present trends such as the [[free software movement]], and considered as a basic principle in the relationship between software developers of [[free software]]s.

Others reply to this critique by asserting that free association is not a utopia, but a emancipatory exigence which necessarily come from the very material condition which is the proletariat (i.e., '''deprivation of property''' and a constant '''social struggle''' against the submission and deprivation that it causes, and that puts them against the state and capital). However, the trends that advocate a transition (especially social democracy and Marxism-Leninism) postpone it for a more or less remote future, pushing free association so increasingly in the background, in exchange for the task of establishing a transitional phase. And as the proletariat can have no interest in their own emancipation when it is postponed for the indefinite future, the search for a "transition" is necessarily a task that is not assumed by the proletariat thenselves but by a intelligentsia or political professionals. This culminated in [[Stalinism]] (for example, the so-called [[socialist countries]] like Cuba, USSR, China) and the present social democratic parties, in which the concept of free association was virtually abandoned. In contrast, the present trends derived from anarchism and council communism understand the free association as the practical basis for the fundamental transformation of society at all levels, from the everyday level (search of an libertarian interpersonal relationship, critique of the family, consumerism, criticism of conformist and obedient behavior ) to the level of world society as a whole (the fight against the state and against the ruling class in all countries, the destruction of national borders, support for self-organized struggle of the oppressed, attacks on property, support to wildcat strikes and to workers and unemployed autonomous struggles).

==Literature==

Since anarchists, some Libertarian Marxists (mainly the [[Situationists]]) and other [[Libertarian socialists]] consider free association as an immediate task for introduction and maintenance of stateless socialism, most theorists of these ideologies have gone into great detail about how it will operate, unlike most Leninists and Democratic Socialists who tend to be more concerned with the "transition" than the final goal.

Some of most important works:

The Humanisphere - Anarchist Utopia (L'Humanisphère - Utopie anarchique, 1857), by the libertarian communist Joseph Déjacque. Complete text in French: [http://joseph.dejacque.free.fr/libertaire/n01/humanisphere.htm]

The Conquest of Bread (1892), by Peter Kropotkin. Complete text: [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/kropotkin/conquest/toc.html].

A World Without Money: Communism (1975–76), by the French group Friends of 4 Millions of Young Workers . Complete text, in French [http://www.rising4.net/mondtitl.htm].

Bolo'bolo (1983), the PM Complete text in French: [http://www.lyber-eclat.net/lyber/bolo/bolo.html] and Portuguese [http://www.correcotia.com/bolobolo/].

The thin red line: non-market socialism in the twentieth century (1987), by John Crump, offers an account of the ideas of several trends which considered important the free association. Text in English: [http://www.theoryandpractice.org.uk/library/thin-red-line-non-market-socialism-twentieth-century-john-crump-1987]

==Quotations==

{{Quotation|"It follows from all we have been saying up till now that the communal relationship into which the individuals of a class entered, and which was determined by their common interests over against a third party, was always a community to which these individuals belonged only as average individuals, only insofar as they lived within the conditions of existence of their class — a relationship in which they participated not as individuals but as members of a class. With the community of revolutionary proletarians, on the other hand, who take their conditions of existence [...] under their control, it is just the reverse; it is as individuals that the individuals participate in it.
[...]
Communism differs from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all earlier relations of production and intercourse, and for the first time consciously treats all natural premises as the creatures of hitherto existing men, strips them of their natural character and subjugates them to the power of the united individuals. Its organization is, therefore, essentially economic, the material production of the conditions of this unity; it turns existing conditions into conditions of unity. The reality, which communism is creating, is precisely the true basis for rendering it impossible that anything should exist independently of individuals, insofar as reality is only a product of the preceding intercourse of individuals themselves." Marx (German Ideology) [[s:The German Ideology/Section 12]]}}

==References==
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Das Venus Projekt

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{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Social movement]]
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}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that promotes and advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "resource-based economy". A resource-based economy incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[Value (ethics)|values]], [[efficient energy use|energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity as a whole.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

It works alongside [[the Zeitgeist Movement]], which functions as the activist arm of the Venus Project, allowing members to communicate and work on projects within the movement.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco On The Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale models]] based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a non-profit company called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that poverty is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.<ref name="Artivist">[http://www.artivists.org/index.htm Breaking News], Artivist Film Festival website.</ref>{{Citation broken|date=March 2011}} The progression of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[Political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovieimdb">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[Political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the progression of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=THE FUTURE AND BEYOND}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[Greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource based economy". A resource based economy utilizes existing resources - rather than money - to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==
[[Image:Fresco circular city.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Circular City]]
A resource-based economy would replace the need for the current monetary economy, which is "[[scarcity]]-oriented" or "scarcity-based". Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that — with modern technology and judicious efficiency — the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limitations of what is deemed possible due to notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of the Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

Apart from the Venus Project, other projects have later started up with the intent of promoting a resource-based economy or similar. These include the so-called Resource Based Economy Foundation,<ref>http://www.rbefoundation.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref> the New Z-Land Project,<ref>http://thenzp.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref> and the Atlas Initiative Group.<ref>http://atlasinitiativegroup.org/acp/acp.html - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref> Neither of these seem to be affiliated with the Venus Project or Jacque Fresco.

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Zeitgeist films. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released.

==Publications==
===Books===
*{{cite book |last1=Keyes |first1=Ken |authorlink1=Ken Keyes, Jr. |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Looking Forward |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=1969 |publisher=Alfred Smith Barnes |location=South Brunswick Township, New Jersey |isbn=0498067521 |oclc=21606}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Introduction to Sociocyberneering |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1977 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc. |oclc=6036204}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Cities in Transition |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=The Determinants of Behavior |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Structural Systems and Systems of Structure |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1979 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=The Venus Project: The Redesign of Culture |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1995 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880601 |oclc=33896367}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=The Best that Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2002 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880679 |oclc=49931422}}
*{{cite book |last1=Maynard |first1=Elliott |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Transforming the Global Biosphere: Twelve Futuristic Strategies |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2003 |publisher=Arcos Cielos Research Center |location=Sedona, Ariz. |isbn=0972171312 |oclc=78763038}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Designing the Future |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=2007 |publisher=The Venus Project, Inc. |location=Venus, Fla. |oclc=568770383}}

===Films===
*''Welcome to the Future'' (2001)
*''Cities in the Sea'' (2002)
*''Self-erecting Structures'' (2002)
*''Future by Design'' (2006)

===Articles===
*Fresco, Jacque and Meadows, Roxanne (2003)''The Future by Design: Beyond Money and Politics'' in ''Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a better world.'' pp. 197–204 edited by Arthur B. Shostak. Armonk, NY: [[M.E. Sharpe]]. ISBN 0765611058

== See also ==
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* [http://icarusfilms.com/new2007/gre.html Great Expectations: A Journey through the History of Visionary Architecture (2007)] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=498XZbrJmug]

== External links ==
* [http://www.thevenusproject.com/ The Venus Project] – Official website
* [http://www.futurebydesignthemovie.com/ Future By Design] – film about Jacque Fresco with virtual images of The Venus Project visions
* [http://vimeo.com/6346955 Zeitgeist Movement Lecture] – Peter Joseph's July 25, 2009 lecture in London, UK

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Das Venus Projekt

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OpenFuture: Restoring NPOV. Stop trying to treat Frescos dreams and ideas as if they are facts.

{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Social movement]]
|website = [http://www.thevenusproject.com www.thevenusproject.com]
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that promotes and advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "resource-based economy". A resource-based economy incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[Value (ethics)|values]], [[efficient energy use|energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity as a whole.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

It works alongside [[the Zeitgeist Movement]], which functions as the activist arm of the Venus Project, allowing members to communicate and work on projects within the movement.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco On The Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale models]] based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a non-profit company called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that poverty is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.<ref name="Artivist">[http://www.artivists.org/index.htm Breaking News], Artivist Film Festival website.</ref>{{Citation broken|date=March 2011}} The progression of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[Political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovieimdb">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[Political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the progression of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=THE FUTURE AND BEYOND}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[Greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource based economy". A resource based economy utilizes existing resources - rather than money - to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==
[[Image:Fresco circular city.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Circular City]]
A resource-based economy would replace the need for the current monetary economy, which is "[[scarcity]]-oriented" or "scarcity-based". Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that — with modern technology and judicious efficiency — the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limitations of what is deemed possible due to notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of the Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

Apart from the Venus Project, other projects have later started up with the intent of promoting a resource-based economy or similar. These include the so-called Resource Based Economy Foundation,<ref>http://www.rbefoundation.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref> the New Z-Land Project,<ref>http://thenzp.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref> and the Atlas Initiative Group.<ref>http://atlasinitiativegroup.org/acp/acp.html - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref> Neither of these seem to be affiliated with the Venus Project or Jacque Fresco.

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Zeitgeist films. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released.

==Publications==
===Books===
*{{cite book |last1=Keyes |first1=Ken |authorlink1=Ken Keyes, Jr. |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Looking Forward |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=1969 |publisher=Alfred Smith Barnes |location=South Brunswick Township, New Jersey |isbn=0498067521 |oclc=21606}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Introduction to Sociocyberneering |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1977 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc. |oclc=6036204}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Cities in Transition |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=The Determinants of Behavior |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Structural Systems and Systems of Structure |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1979 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=The Venus Project: The Redesign of Culture |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1995 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880601 |oclc=33896367}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=The Best that Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2002 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880679 |oclc=49931422}}
*{{cite book |last1=Maynard |first1=Elliott |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Transforming the Global Biosphere: Twelve Futuristic Strategies |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2003 |publisher=Arcos Cielos Research Center |location=Sedona, Ariz. |isbn=0972171312 |oclc=78763038}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Designing the Future |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=2007 |publisher=The Venus Project, Inc. |location=Venus, Fla. |oclc=568770383}}

===Films===
*''Welcome to the Future'' (2001)
*''Cities in the Sea'' (2002)
*''Self-erecting Structures'' (2002)
*''Future by Design'' (2006)

===Articles===
*Fresco, Jacque and Meadows, Roxanne (2003)''The Future by Design: Beyond Money and Politics'' in ''Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a better world.'' pp. 197–204 edited by Arthur B. Shostak. Armonk, NY: [[M.E. Sharpe]]. ISBN 0765611058

== See also ==
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* [http://icarusfilms.com/new2007/gre.html Great Expectations: A Journey through the History of Visionary Architecture (2007)] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=498XZbrJmug]

== External links ==
* [http://www.thevenusproject.com/ The Venus Project] – Official website
* [http://www.futurebydesignthemovie.com/ Future By Design] – film about Jacque Fresco with virtual images of The Venus Project visions
* [http://vimeo.com/6346955 Zeitgeist Movement Lecture] – Peter Joseph's July 25, 2009 lecture in London, UK

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[[Category:Utopian movements]]
[[Category:Zeitgeist]]

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{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Social movement]]
|website = [http://www.thevenusproject.com www.thevenusproject.com]
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that promotes and advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "resource-based economy". A resource-based economy incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[Value (ethics)|values]], [[efficient energy use|energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity as a whole.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

It works alongside [[the Zeitgeist Movement]], which functions as the activist arm of the Venus Project, allowing members to communicate and work on projects within the movement.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco On The Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale models]] based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a non-profit company called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that poverty is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.<ref name="Artivist">[http://www.artivists.org/index.htm Breaking News], Artivist Film Festival website.</ref>{{Citation broken|date=March 2011}} The progression of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[Political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovieimdb">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[Political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the progression of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=THE FUTURE AND BEYOND}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[Greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource based economy". A resource based economy utilizes existing resources - rather than money - to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==
[[Image:Fresco circular city.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Circular City]]
A resource-based economy would replace the need for the current monetary economy, which is "[[scarcity]]-oriented" or "scarcity-based". Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that — with modern technology and judicious efficiency — the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limitations of what is deemed possible due to notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of the Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

Apart from the Venus Project, other projects have later started up with the intent of promoting a resource-based economy or similar. These include the so-called Resource Based Economy Foundation,<ref>http://www.rbefoundation.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref> the New Z-Land Project,<ref>http://thenzp.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref> and the Atlas Initiative Group.<ref>http://atlasinitiativegroup.org/acp/acp.html - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref> Neither of these seem to be affiliated with the Venus Project or Jacque Fresco.

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Zeitgeist films. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released.

==Publications==
===Books===
*{{cite book |last1=Keyes |first1=Ken |authorlink1=Ken Keyes, Jr. |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Looking Forward |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=1969 |publisher=Alfred Smith Barnes |location=South Brunswick Township, New Jersey |isbn=0498067521 |oclc=21606}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Introduction to Sociocyberneering |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1977 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc. |oclc=6036204}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Cities in Transition |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=The Determinants of Behavior |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Structural Systems and Systems of Structure |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1979 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=The Venus Project: The Redesign of Culture |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1995 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880601 |oclc=33896367}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=The Best that Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2002 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880679 |oclc=49931422}}
*{{cite book |last1=Maynard |first1=Elliott |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Transforming the Global Biosphere: Twelve Futuristic Strategies |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2003 |publisher=Arcos Cielos Research Center |location=Sedona, Ariz. |isbn=0972171312 |oclc=78763038}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Designing the Future |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=2007 |publisher=The Venus Project, Inc. |location=Venus, Fla. |oclc=568770383}}

===Films===
*''Welcome to the Future'' (2001)
*''Cities in the Sea'' (2002)
*''Self-erecting Structures'' (2002)
*''Future by Design'' (2006)

===Articles===
*Fresco, Jacque and Meadows, Roxanne (2003)''The Future by Design: Beyond Money and Politics'' in ''Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a better world.'' pp. 197–204 edited by Arthur B. Shostak. Armonk, NY: [[M.E. Sharpe]]. ISBN 0765611058

== See also ==
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* [http://icarusfilms.com/new2007/gre.html Great Expectations: A Journey through the History of Visionary Architecture (2007)] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=498XZbrJmug]

== External links ==
* [http://www.thevenusproject.com/ The Venus Project] – Official website
* [http://www.futurebydesignthemovie.com/ Future By Design] – film about Jacque Fresco with virtual images of The Venus Project visions
* [http://vimeo.com/6346955 Zeitgeist Movement Lecture] – Peter Joseph's July 25, 2009 lecture in London, UK

[[Category:Organizations based in Florida]]
[[Category:Utopian movements]]
[[Category:Zeitgeist]]

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[[bg:Проект Венера]]
[[es:Proyecto Venus]]
[[fr:The Venus Project]]
[[hr:Projekt Venus]]
[[it:Venus Project]]
[[no:Venus prosjektet]]
[[pl:The Venus Project]]
[[pt:Projeto Venus]]
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2011-03-25T11:58:39Z

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{{Infobox organization
|name = The Venus Project
|image = TheVenusProjectLogo.jpg
|size = 200px
|motto = Beyond Politics, Poverty and War
|type = [[Social movement]]
|website = [http://www.thevenusproject.com www.thevenusproject.com]
}}

'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that promotes and advocates American [[futurist]] [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "resource-based economy". A resource-based economy incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[Value (ethics)|values]], [[efficient energy use|energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity as a whole.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

It works alongside [[the Zeitgeist Movement]], which functions as the activist arm of the Venus Project, allowing members to communicate and work on projects within the movement.

== History ==
[[File:Jacque Fresco with Roxanne Meadows.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Futurist Jacque Fresco (right) with Roxanne Meadows]]

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco On The Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale models]] based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project is a two-part business: a non-profit company called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">{{Better source|date=March 2011}}[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>{{Better source|date=March 2011}}

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that poverty is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.<ref name="Artivist">[http://www.artivists.org/index.htm Breaking News], Artivist Film Festival website.</ref>{{Citation broken|date=March 2011}} The progression of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[Political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.</ref><ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovieimdb">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[Political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the progression of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=THE FUTURE AND BEYOND}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[Greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource based economy". A resource based economy utilizes existing resources - rather than money - to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==
[[Image:Fresco circular city.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Circular City]]
A resource-based economy would replace the need for the current monetary economy, which is "[[scarcity]]-oriented" or "scarcity-based". Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that — with modern technology and judicious efficiency — the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limitations of what is deemed possible due to notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of the Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref> Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism).<ref name=autogenerated1 />

Apart from the Venus Project, other projects have later started up with the intent of promoting a resource-based economy or similar. These include the so-called Resource Based Economy Foundation,<ref>http://www.rbefoundation.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref> the New Z-Land Project,<ref>http://thenzp.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref> and the Atlas Initiative Group.<ref>http://atlasinitiativegroup.org/acp/acp.html - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref> Neither of these seem to be affiliated with the Venus Project or Jacque Fresco.

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project was featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, an organization called the Zeitgeist Movement was established to promote the aims of the Zeitgeist films. In 2011, an additional film, ''[[Zeitgeist: Moving Forward]]'', was also released.

==Publications==
===Books===
*{{cite book |last1=Keyes |first1=Ken |authorlink1=Ken Keyes, Jr. |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Looking Forward |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=1969 |publisher=Alfred Smith Barnes |location=South Brunswick Township, New Jersey |isbn=0498067521 |oclc=21606}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Introduction to Sociocyberneering |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1977 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc. |oclc=6036204}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Cities in Transition |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=The Determinants of Behavior |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Structural Systems and Systems of Structure |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1979 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=The Venus Project: The Redesign of Culture |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1995 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880601 |oclc=33896367}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=The Best that Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2002 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880679 |oclc=49931422}}
*{{cite book |last1=Maynard |first1=Elliott |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Transforming the Global Biosphere: Twelve Futuristic Strategies |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2003 |publisher=Arcos Cielos Research Center |location=Sedona, Ariz. |isbn=0972171312 |oclc=78763038}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |author=Jacques Fresco |title=Designing the Future |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=2007 |publisher=The Venus Project, Inc. |location=Venus, Fla. |oclc=568770383}}

===Films===
*''Welcome to the Future'' (2001)
*''Cities in the Sea'' (2002)
*''Self-erecting Structures'' (2002)
*''Future by Design'' (2006)

===Articles===
*Fresco, Jacque and Meadows, Roxanne (2003)''The Future by Design: Beyond Money and Politics'' in ''Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a better world.'' pp. 197–204 edited by Arthur B. Shostak. Armonk, NY: [[M.E. Sharpe]]. ISBN 0765611058

== See also ==
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* [http://icarusfilms.com/new2007/gre.html Great Expectations: A Journey through the History of Visionary Architecture (2007)] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=498XZbrJmug]

== External links ==
* [http://www.thevenusproject.com/ The Venus Project] – Official website
* [http://www.futurebydesignthemovie.com/ Future By Design] – film about Jacque Fresco with virtual images of The Venus Project visions
* [http://vimeo.com/6346955 Zeitgeist Movement Lecture] – Peter Joseph's July 25, 2009 lecture in London, UK

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'''The Venus Project''' is an organization that promotes and advocates Jacque Fresco's visions of the future with the aim to improve [[society]] by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "resource based economy". A resource based economy incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[Value (ethics)|values]], [[efficient energy use|energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity as a whole.

The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]]. Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006.

It works alongside [[the Zeitgeist Movement]], which functions as the activist arm of the Venus Project, allowing members to communicate and work on projects within the movement.

== History ==
The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco On The Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida, [[United States|U.S.]] Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale models]] based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" />

The Venus Project was incorporated in 1995. The Venus Project originated on a plot of land in Florida which was purchased after liquidating a previous company named Sociocyberneering Inc. {{Citation needed|date=February 2011}} The Venus Project is a two-part business: a non-profit company called "Future by Design"<ref name="future by design">[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called "Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc."<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>

The Venus Project was founded on the idea that poverty is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.<ref name="Artivist">[http://www.artivists.org/index.htm Breaking News], Artivist Film Festival website.</ref> The progression of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[Political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=F.A.Q. | url=http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/faq-home.htm | publisher=The Zeitgeist Movement | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource based economy.<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

In a 2008 interview with Fresco and Meadows, Fresco stated that a "lack of credentials" has made it difficult for him to gain influence in academic circles. He adds that when universities do invite him to speak, they often don't give him enough time to explain his views. {{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}

== Theory ==
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According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[Political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the progression of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=THE FUTURE AND BEYOND}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[Greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "resource based economy". A resource based economy utilizes existing resources - rather than money - to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>

==Resource based economy==
[[Image:Fresco circular city.jpg|frame|left|Circular City]]
A resource based economy would replace the need for the current monetary economy, which is "[[scarcity]]-oriented" or "scarcity-based". Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that — with modern technology and judicious efficiency — the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limitations of what is deemed possible due to notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of the Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively <ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref>. Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism) <ref name=autogenerated1 />.

Apart from the Venus Project, other projects have later started up with the intent of promoting a resource based economy or similar. These include the so-called Resource Based Economy Foundation<ref>http://www.rbefoundation.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref>, the New Z-Land Project<ref>http://thenzp.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref>, and the Atlas Initiative Group<ref>http://atlasinitiativegroup.org/acp/acp.html - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref>. Neither of these seem to be affiliated with the Venus Project or Jacque Fresco.

==Books==
*{{cite book |last1=Keyes |first1=Ken |authorlink1=Ken Keyes, Jr. |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |authorlink2=Jacques Fresco |title=Looking Forward |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=1969 |publisher=Alfred Smith Barnes |location=South Brunswick Township, New Jersey |isbn=0498067521 |oclc=21606}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=Introduction to Sociocyberneering |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1977 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc. |oclc=6036204}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=Cities in Transition |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=The Determinants of Behavior |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=Structural Systems and Systems of Structure |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1979 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=The Venus Project: The Redesign of Culture |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1995 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880601 |oclc=33896367}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=The Best that Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2002 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880679 |oclc=49931422}}
*{{cite book |last1=Maynard |first1=Elliott |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |authorlink2=Jacques Fresco |title=Transforming the Global Biosphere: Twelve Futuristic Strategies |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2003 |publisher=Arcos Cielos Research Center |location=Sedona, Ariz. |isbn=0972171312 |oclc=78763038}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=Designing the Future |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=2007 |publisher=The Venus Project, Inc. |location=Venus, Fla. |oclc=568770383}}

==Films==
*''The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture'' (1994)
*''Welcome to the Future'' (2001)
*''Cities in the Sea'' (2002)
*''Self-erecting Structures'' (2002)
*''Future by Design'' (2006)
*''Great Expectations'' (2007)
*''Zeitgeist: Addendum'' (2008)
*''Zeitgeist: Moving Forward'' (2011)

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|The Zeitgeist Movement}}
The Venus Project is featured prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, the Zeitgeist Movement was established to aid the transition from a monetary or [[quid pro quo]] (e.g., barter) based economy to a resource based economy. In 2009, ''The Zeitgeist Orientation Presentation'' was released to Google video, becoming the most complete online depiction of the Venus Project, in accordance with the Zeitgeist Movement.

==Criticism==
This movement has been roundly criticized for being, in one sentence, a rebirth of Old-Left [[Marxism]]{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}. It has been called nothing more than the original Marxist philosophy, combined with the "cybernated society" idea that started in the USSR during the tenure of [[Nikita Khrushchev]]. The entire point of "cybernation" was to combat the most serious problem of a communist and/or moneyless society: the problem of information. The price system conveys information to producers regarding the scarcity of resources, cost of labor, cost of capital, cost of transportation, and all other costs related to the production of a good or service, in non-parsable form. As annoying as prices are to those who have to pay them, the lack of prices set by a market has, in every attempt throughout history, lead to distortions and misallocations of resources; to wit, to economic inefficiencies.
The leaders of this program acknowledge their Marxist roots in their FAQ page, and then go on to admit that the only distinction between what they advocate and the original Marxist ideal is the level of technological sophistication that the beginning society is supposed to have. The Venus Project is explicitly a proposal for yet another centrally planned economy, which will lead (in very short order) to a centrally planned society{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}.

== See also ==
* [[Natural resource economics]]
* [[Cultural Creatives]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Project Cybersyn]]
* [[Telesis]]
* [[Futurism]]
* [[Post scarcity]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.thevenusproject.com/ The Venus Project] – Official website
* [http://www.futurebydesignthemovie.com/ Future By Design] – film about Jacque Fresco with virtual images of The Venus Project visions
* [http://vimeo.com/6346955 Zeitgeist Movement Lecture] – Peter Joseph's July 25, 2009 lecture in London, UK
* [http://www.atlasinitiativegroup.org Atlas City Project] - Non-profit group building a transitional RBE called 'Atlas City' in the US
* [http://www.cleanslate.editboard.com The Clean Slate City State Forums] - A web forum dedicated to the exploration of the potential for a clean-slate city-state (conceptually similar to an RBE)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Peter Joseph}}

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2011-02-24T17:11:19Z

OpenFuture: Removed some circular links.

{{About|the social movement|the video game system developed under the codename "Project Venus"|Sega Nomad}}
'''The Venus Project, Inc''' is an organization that promotes Jacque Fresco's visions of the future with the aim to improve [[society]] by moving towards a sustainable social design that they call a Resource-Based Economy (RBE). A RBE incorporates [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities and [[Value_(ethics)|values]], [[efficient energy use|energy efficiency]], [[collective farms]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to humanity as a whole.<ref name="Living_On_Purpose">{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/images/stories/archived-media/Audio/The_Venus_Project_08_Living-on-Purpose.mp3
|title = Living On Purpose: Interview with Fresco and Meadows
|publisher = The Venus Project
|accessdate = 2011-01-05
}}(MP3)</ref>
The organization was started by Jacque Fresco,<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html
|title=Jacque Fresco On The Future
|publisher=Forbes.com
|date=2007-10-13
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref> Roxanne Meadows and Sam Laurie in 1995.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}<ref group="note">The Venus Project website claims it started around 1975.
</ref> It works alongside [[The Zeitgeist Movement]], which functions as an activist network, allowing members to communicate and work on projects within the movement.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kb&task=article&article=4&Itemid=100091
|title=What is The Zeitgeist Movement?
|publisher=thezeitgeistmovement.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}</ref>
''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006. The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]].<ref name="7news">{{cite web|url=http://www.wsvn.com/features/articles/specialreport/MI114870/ |title=7 News Features - The Venus Project |publisher=Wsvn.com |date=2009-03-06 |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref> Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project.<ref name="7news"/>

== History ==

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco On The Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in [[Venus, Florida]], [[USA]]. Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale models]] based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" /> The Venus Project was incorporated in 1995. The Venus Project originated as a plot of land in Florida which was purchased after liquidating a previous company by the name of sociocyberneering inc. {{Citation needed|date=February 2011}} The Venus Project is a two-part business, a non-profit company called 'Future by Design'<ref name="future by design">[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called 'Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc.'<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>

Venus project was founded on the idea that poverty is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.<ref name="Artivist">[http://www.artivists.org/index.htm Breaking News], Artivist Film Festival website.</ref> The progression of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[Political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=F.A.Q. | url=http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/faq-home.htm | publisher=The Zeitgeist Movement | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a [[money]]-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a [[resource based economy]].<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

In a 2008 interview with Fresco and Meadows, Fresco stated that a 'lack of credentials' has made it difficult for him to gain influence in academic circles. He adds that when universities do invite him to speak, they often don't give him enough time to explain his views. {{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[Political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the progression of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=THE FUTURE AND BEYOND}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[Greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{IMDb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "Resource-Based Economy". A Resource-Based Economy utilizes existing resources - rather than money - to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==
[[Image:Fresco circular city.jpg|frame|left|Circular city]]
A major theme of Fresco's is the concept of a '''resource-based economy''' (or RBE) that replaces the need for the current monetary economy, which is "[[scarcity]]-oriented" or "scarcity-based". Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that — with modern technology and judicious efficiency — the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limitations of what is deemed possible due to notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of the Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively <ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref>. Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism) <ref name=autogenerated1 />.

Apart from The Venus Project, other projects have later started up with the intent of promoting a resource based economy or similar. These include the so-called Resource Based Economy Foundation<ref>http://www.rbefoundation.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref>, The New Z-Land Project<ref>http://thenzp.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref>, and The Atlas Initiative Group<ref>http://atlasinitiativegroup.org/acp/acp.html - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref>. Neither of these seem to be affiliated with The Venus Project or Jacque Fresco.

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|Zeitgeist movement}}
The Venus Project is featured prominently in the [[2007 in film|2008]] [[documentary film]] ''[[Zeitgeist,_the_Movie#Sequel_I:_Zeitgeist:_Addendum|Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California]] on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, the Zeitgeist Movement was established to aid the transition from a monetary or [[quid pro quo]] (e.g., barter) based economy to a resource-based economy. In 2009, ''The Zeitgeist Orientation Presentation'' was released to Google video, becoming the most complete online depiction of the Venus Project, in accordance with The Zeitgeist Movement.

==Selected bibliography==
*{{cite book |last1=Keyes |first1=Ken |authorlink1=Ken Keyes, Jr. |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |authorlink2=Jacques Fresco |title=Looking Forward |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=1969 |publisher=Alfred Smith Barnes |location=South Brunswick Township, New Jersey |isbn=0498067521 |oclc=21606}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=Introduction to Sociocyberneering |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1977 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc. |oclc=6036204}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=Cities in Transition |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=The Determinants of Behavior |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=Structural Systems and Systems of Structure |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1979 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=The Venus Project: The Redesign of Culture |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1995 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880601 |oclc=33896367}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=The Best that Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2002 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880679 |oclc=49931422}}
*{{cite book |last1=Maynard |first1=Elliott |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |authorlink2=Jacques Fresco |title=Transforming the Global Biosphere: Twelve Futuristic Strategies |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2003 |publisher=Arcos Cielos Research Center |location=Sedona, Ariz. |isbn=0972171312 |oclc=78763038}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=Designing the Future |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=2007 |publisher=The Venus Project, Inc. |location=Venus, Fla. |oclc=568770383}}

==Films==
*''The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture'' (1994)
*''Welcome to the Future'' (2001)
*''Cities in the Sea'' (2002)
*''Self-erecting Structures'' (2002)
*''Future by Design'' (2006)
*''Great Expectations'' (2007)
*''Zeitgeist: Addendum'' (2008)
*''Zeitgeist: Moving Forward'' (2011)

== See also ==
* [[Cultural Creatives]]
* [[Futurism]]
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Telesis]]
* [[Post scarcity]]
* [[Project Cybersyn]]

== Notes ==
{{Reflist|group=note}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.thevenusproject.com/ ''The Venus Project''] – Official website
* [http://www.futurebydesignthemovie.com/ ''Future By Design''] – film about Jacque Fresco with virtual images of The Venus Project visions
* [http://vimeo.com/6346955 ''Zeitgeist Movement Lecture''] – Peter Joseph's July 25, 2009 lecture in London, UK
* [http://www.atlasinitiativegroup.org ''Atlas City Project''] - Non-Profit Group building a transitional RBE called 'Atlas City' in the USA
* [http://www.cleanslate.editboard.com ''The Clean Slate City State Forums''] - A web forum dedicated to the exploration of the potential for a clean-slate city-state (conceptually similar to an RBE).

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2011-02-18T10:15:12Z

OpenFuture: Merged with Jacques Fresco, see talk.

{{About|the social movement|the video game system developed under the codename "Project Venus"|Sega Nomad}}
'''The Venus Project, Inc''' is an organization that promotes [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the goal to improve [[society]] by moving towards what they call [[Jacque Fresco#Resource-based_economy|resource-based economy]] and the design of [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities, [[efficient energy use|energy efficiency]], [[natural resource management]] and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to society.<ref name="Living_On_Purpose">{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/images/stories/archived-media/Audio/The_Venus_Project_08_Living-on-Purpose.mp3
|title = Living On Purpose: Interview with Fresco and Meadows
|publisher = The Venus Project
|accessdate = 2011-01-05
}}(MP3)</ref>
The organization was started by Jacque Fresco,<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html
|title=Jacque Fresco On The Future
|publisher=Forbes.com
|date=2007-10-13
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref> Roxanne Meadows and Sam Laurie in 1995.{{cn}}<ref group="note">The Venus Project website claims it started around 1975.
</ref> It works alongside [[The Zeitgeist Movement]], which functions as an activist network, allowing members to communicate and work on projects within the movement.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kb&task=article&article=4&Itemid=100091
|title=What is The Zeitgeist Movement?
|publisher=thezeitgeistmovement.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05}}</ref>
''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006. The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]].<ref name="7news">{{cite web|url=http://www.wsvn.com/features/articles/specialreport/MI114870/ |title=7 News Features - The Venus Project |publisher=Wsvn.com |date=2009-03-06 |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref> Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project.<ref name="7news"/>

== History ==

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). [http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html The Future: Jacque Fresco On The Future] Forbes.com. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref> and by former portrait artist Roxanne Meadows in [[Venus, Florida]], [[USA]]. Its research center is a {{convert|21|acre|m2|sing=on}} property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of [[scale models]] based on his designs.<ref name="imdb-0870112" /> The Venus Project was incorporated in 1995. The Venus Project originated as a plot of land in Florida which was purchased after liquidating a previous company by the name of sociocyberneering inc. {{cn}} The Venus Project is a two-part business, a non-profit company called 'Future by Design'<ref name="future by design">[http://www.thevenusproject.com/store-donate Browse]</ref> and a for-profit company called 'Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc.'<ref name="venus project inc/global cybervisions inc">[http://www.manta.com/c/mmg0z3j/venus-project-inc Venus Project Inc - Venus, Florida (FL) | Company Profile]</ref>

Venus project was founded on the idea that poverty is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's [[capitalism|profit-driven]] economic system.<ref name="Artivist">[http://www.artivists.org/index.htm Breaking News], Artivist Film Festival website.</ref> The progression of technology, if it were carried on independent of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing [[Political corruption|corruption]] and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.<ref>{{cite web | title=F.A.Q. | url=http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/faq-home.htm | publisher=The Zeitgeist Movement | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ |title=IMDb Profile |publisher=Imdb.com |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist Addendum | url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263093157&referer=brief_results |publisher=WorldCat | accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Fresco advocates against a [[money]]-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a [[resource based economy]].<ref name="whatistvp">{{cite web | title=What is The Venus Project | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/whatis_tvp.htm | publisher=The Venus Project | accessdate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

In a 2008 interview with Fresco and Meadows, Fresco stated that a 'lack of credentials' has made it difficult for him to gain influence in academic circles. He adds that when universities do invite him to speak, they often don't give him enough time to explain his views. {{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}

== Theory ==
According to Fresco, poverty, crime, [[Political corruption|corruption]] and war are the result of scarcity created by the present world's profit-based economic system. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial technology. Fresco claims that the progression of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=THE FUTURE AND BEYOND}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[Greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{imdb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic system will have to see a major crisis before people start to lose the confidence in the monetary system and start looking for other directions.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhIT_lNLjs
|title= Red Ice Radio - Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - Pt 1 - The Venus Project
|publisher= youtube.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>
Fundamental to the project is what Fresco calls a "[[Jacque Fresco#Resource Based Economy|resource-based economy]]". A resource-based economy utilizes existing resources - rather than money - to provide an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq
|title= Frequently Asked Questions From Over 25 Years
|publisher= thevenusproject.com
|accessdate=2011-01-05 }}
</ref>

==Resource-based economy==
{{See also|Post scarcity}}
[[Image:Fresco circular city.jpg|frame|left|Circular city]]
A major theme of Fresco's is the concept of a '''resource-based economy''' (or RBE) that replaces the need for the current monetary economy, which is "[[scarcity]]-oriented" or "scarcity-based". Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that — with modern technology and judicious efficiency — the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limitations of what is deemed possible due to notions of economic viability.

Fresco provides an example of this confusion in the following quote:

:"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."<ref>{{cite web | title=Resource Based Economy | url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy | publisher=Venus Project | accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref>

Fresco states that for this to work, all of the Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to the survival of human civilization.

One of the key points in Fresco’s solution is that without the conditions created in a monetary system, vast amounts of resources would not be wasted unproductively <ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web | title=Jacque Fresco on Larry King Live (Full - 1974) | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6puH9DYnQ | accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref>. Instead Fresco’s contention is that without the waste of resources on ends that would become irrelevant there would be no scarcity of necessary products such as food and education (environmentalism) <ref name=autogenerated1 />.

Apart from The Venus Project, other projects have later started up with the intent of promoting a resource based economy or similar. These include the so-called Resource Based Economy Foundation<ref>http://www.rbefoundation.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref>, The New Z-Land Project<ref>http://thenzp.com/ - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref>, and The Atlas Initiative Group<ref>http://atlasinitiativegroup.org/acp/acp.html - retrieved on 15/02/2011</ref>. Neither of these seem to be affiliated with The Venus Project or Jacque Fresco.

==The Zeitgeist Movement==
{{Main|Zeitgeist movement}}
The Venus Project is featured prominently in the [[2007 in film|2008]] [[documentary film]] ''[[Zeitgeist,_the_Movie#Sequel_I:_Zeitgeist:_Addendum|Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', as a possible solution to the global problems explained in the first film and first half of the second film.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie" /> The film premiered at the 5th Annual [[Artivist Film Festival]] in [[Los Angeles, California]] on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award, and it was released online for free on Google video<ref>{{cite web | title=Zeitgeist: Addendum | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 | work=Video | publisher=Google | accessdate=2009-03-26 }}</ref> on October 4, 2008.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/5th-annual-artivist-film-festival/story.aspx?guid={0A616A0D-1997-45BC-ADE5-D9BC9FD14AEA}&dist=hppr The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's Market Watch], Press release.</ref> Following the movie, the Zeitgeist Movement was established to aid the transition from a monetary or [[quid pro quo]] (e.g., barter) based economy to a resource-based economy. In 2009, ''The Zeitgeist Orientation Presentation'' was released to Google video, becoming the most complete online depiction of the Venus Project, in accordance with The Zeitgeist Movement.

==Selected bibliography==
*{{cite book |last1=Keyes |first1=Ken |authorlink1=Ken Keyes, Jr. |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |authorlink2=Jacques Fresco |title=Looking Forward |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=1969 |publisher=Alfred Smith Barnes |location=South Brunswick Township, New Jersey |isbn=0498067521 |oclc=21606}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=Introduction to Sociocyberneering |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1977 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc. |oclc=6036204}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=Cities in Transition |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=The Determinants of Behavior |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1978 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=Structural Systems and Systems of Structure |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=1979 |publisher=Sociocyberneering, Inc.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=The Venus Project: The Redesign of Culture |accessdate=2010-12-30 |year=1995 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880601 |oclc=33896367}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=The Best that Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2002 |publisher=Global Cyber-Visions |location=Venus, Fla. |isbn=0964880679 |oclc=49931422}}
*{{cite book |last1=Maynard |first1=Elliott |last2=Fresco |first2=Jacque |authorlink2=Jacques Fresco |title=Transforming the Global Biosphere: Twelve Futuristic Strategies |accessdate=2009-03-26 |year=2003 |publisher=Arcos Cielos Research Center |location=Sedona, Ariz. |isbn=0972171312 |oclc=78763038}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fresco |first1=Jacque |authorlink1=Jacques Fresco |title=Designing the Future |accessdate=2011-01-09 |year=2007 |publisher=The Venus Project, Inc. |location=Venus, Fla. |oclc=568770383}}

==Films==
*''The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture'' (1994)
*''Welcome to the Future'' (2001)
*''Cities in the Sea'' (2002)
*''Self-erecting Structures'' (2002)
*''Future by Design'' (2006)
*''Great Expectations'' (2007)
*''Zeitgeist: Addendum'' (2008)
*''Zeitgeist: Moving Forward'' (2011)

== See also ==
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Cultural Creatives]]
* [[Telesis]]
* [[Project Cybersyn]]
* [[Futurism]]

== Notes ==
{{Reflist|group=note}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.thevenusproject.com/ ''The Venus Project''] – Official website
* [http://www.futurebydesignthemovie.com/ ''Future By Design''] – film about Jacque Fresco with virtual images of The Venus Project visions
* [http://vimeo.com/6346955 ''Zeitgeist Movement Lecture''] – Peter Joseph's July 25, 2009 lecture in London, UK
* [http://www.atlasinitiativegroup.org ''Atlas City Project''] - Non-Profit Group building a transitional RBE called 'Atlas City' in the USA
* [http://www.cleanslate.editboard.com ''The Clean Slate City State Forums''] - A web forum dedicated to the exploration of the potential for a clean-slate city-state (conceptually similar to an RBE).

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Das Venus Projekt

2010-08-23T10:21:42Z

OpenFuture:

'''The Venus Project, Inc''' is an organization that promotes [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the goal to improve [[society]] by moving towards what they call [[Jacque Fresco#Resource Based Economy|resource-based economy]] and the design of [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities, [[efficient energy use|energy efficiency]], [[natural resource]] management and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to society.<ref name="Living_On_Purpose">{{cite web
|url = http://www.thevenusproject.com/media/audio/The_Venus_Project_08_Living-on-Purpose.mp3
|title = Living On Purpose: Interview with Fresco and Meadows
|publisher = The Venus Project
|accessdate = 2008-12-02
}}(MP3)</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}}<ref name="parole-new_venus">{{cite web
|url = http://parole.aporee.org/work/hier.php3?spec_id=24065&words_id=332
|title = new venus
|publisher = parole.aporee.org
|accessdate = 2008-12-02
}}</ref>{{Verify credibility|date=July 2010}}
The organization was started by Jacque Fresco<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html
|title=Jacque Fresco On The Future
|publisher=Forbes.com
|date=2007-10-13
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref>, Roxanne Meadows and Sam Laurie in 1995.<ref name="articles of incorporation">{{cite web
|url = http://www.sunbiz.org/pdf/CH000360.pdf
|title = articles of incorporation
|publisher = sunbiz.org
}}</ref><ref name="corpwiki">{{cite web
|url = http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Venus/the-venus-project-inc-6481878.aspx
|title = The Venus Project, Inc. Company Profile - Located in Venus, FL - Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows
|publisher=Corporationwiki.com
|date=1995-02-14
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref><ref group="note">The Venus Project website claims it started around 1975.</ref>
It currently works alongside [[The Zeitgeist Movement]], which functions as an activist network, allowing members to communicate and work on projects within the movement.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}
''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006. The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]].<ref name="7news">{{cite web|url=http://www.wsvn.com/features/articles/specialreport/MI114870/ |title=7 News Features - The Venus Project |publisher=Wsvn.com |date=2009-03-06 |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref> Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project.<ref name="7news"/>

== Theory ==

[[Image:Fresco circular city.jpg|frame|Circular city]]
According to Fresco, [[poverty]], [[crime]], [[Political corruption|corruption]] and [[war]] are the result of scarcity created by the present world's [[profit]]-based [[economic system]]. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial [[technology]]. Fresco claims that the progression of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=THE FUTURE AND BEYOND}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[Greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{imdb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic situation, being similar to —though not as severe as— the Great Depression, will lead people away from [[free-market economics]] and capitalism and make them lose confidence in the monetary establishment.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}

Fundamental to the project is the elimination of the current money-based economy in favor of what Fresco calls a "[[Jacque Fresco#Resource Based Economy|resource-based economy]]".{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}

== Trademark issues ==

On 17 September 2009 The Venus Project filed a Trademark claim on the term "Resource Based Economics" also known as RBE with the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]]<ref name="PTO">{{cite web
|url=http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/portal/tow?SRCH=Y&isSubmitted=true&details=&SELECT=US+Serial+No&TEXT=77829193#
|title= PTO website, Resource Based Economy legal dispute
|publisher=tmportal.uspto.gov
|date=17 September 2009
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref>. On 6 January 2010 this was disputed<ref name="Dispute Letter from PWA">{{cite web
|url=http://www.theresourcebasedeconomy.org/ProtestLetter.html
|title= PWA Dispute legal Letter
|publisher=www.theresourcebasedeconomy.org
|date=6 January 2010
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref><ref name="Dispute memo">{{cite web
|url=http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/PA_TOWUserInterface/OpenServletWindow?serialNumber=77829193&scanDate=2010010660646&DocDesc=Administrative+Response&docType=ADR&currentPage=1&rowNum=3&rowCount=6&formattedDate=06-Jan-2010
|title= Dispute legal memo
|publisher=tmportal.uspto.gov
|date=6 January 2010
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref> by The Promethean Workers Association and was filed with the P.T.O. On 11-Jan-2010 the P.W.A. dispute was recognised as an official and valid dispute claim, so the term Resource Based Economics was deemed an illegitimate patent for T.V.P. to hold and therefore denied <ref name="Trademark denied">{{cite web
|url=http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/PA_TOWUserInterface/OpenServletWindow?serialNumber=77829193&scanDate=2010011167621&DocDesc=Offc+Action+Outgoing&docType=OOA&currentPage=1&rowNum=1&rowCount=6&formattedDate=11-Jan-2010
|title= Trademark denied
|publisher=tmportal.uspto.gov
|date=11 January 2010
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref>. The Venus Project were left with 6 months to carry out a further dispute of this matter to prove they had valid claim and argument to hold it, but this did not occur.

== See also ==
* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Cultural Creatives]]
* [[Telesis]]
* [[Project Cybersyn]]

== Notes ==
{{Reflist|group=note}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.thevenusproject.com/ ''The Venus Project''] – Official website
* [http://www.futurebydesignthemovie.com/ ''Future By Design''] – film about Jacque Fresco with virtual images of The Venus Project visions
* [http://vimeo.com/6346955 ''Zeitgeist Movement Lecture''] – Peter Joseph's July 25, 2009 lecture in London, UK
* [http://www.atlasinitiativegroup.org ''Atlas City Project''] - Non-Profit Group building a transitional RBE called 'Atlas City' in the USA

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Das Venus Projekt

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OpenFuture: /* The Zeitgeist Movement */ Wrong article. That belongs in the Zeitgeist Addendum article, and it's already there.

'''The Venus Project, Inc''' is an organization that promotes [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the goal to improve [[society]] by moving towards what they call [[Jacque Fresco#Resource Based Economy|resource-based economy]] and the design of [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities, [[efficient energy use|energy efficiency]], [[natural resource]] management and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to society.<ref name="Living_On_Purpose">[http://www.thevenusproject.com/media/audio/The_Venus_Project_08_Living-on-Purpose.mp3 Living On Purpose: Interview with Fresco and Meadows] (MP3). The Venus Project. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}}<ref name="parole-new_venus">[http://parole.aporee.org/work/hier.php3?spec_id=24065&words_id=332 new venus] (PHP). parole.aporee.org. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref>{{Verify credibility|date=July 2010}} The organization was started by Jacque Fresco<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html |title=Jacque Fresco On The Future |publisher=Forbes.com |date=2007-10-13 |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>, Roxanne Meadows and Sam Laurie in 1995,<ref name="articles of incorporation">[http://www.sunbiz.org/pdf/CH000360.pdf articles of incorporation] (PHP). sunbiz.org. Retrieved on 2010-12-02.</ref><ref name="corpwiki">{{cite web |url=http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Venus/the-venus-project-inc-6481878.aspx |title=The Venus Project, Inc. Company Profile - Located in Venus, FL - Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows |publisher=Corporationwiki.com |date=1995-02-14 |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref> while their website claims The Project started around 1975. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006. The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]].<ref name="7news">{{cite web|url=http://www.wsvn.com/features/articles/specialreport/MI114870/ |title=7 News Features - The Venus Project |publisher=Wsvn.com |date=2009-03-06 |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref> Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project.<ref name="7news"/>

== Theory ==

[[Image:Fresco circular city.jpg|frame|Circular city]]
According to Fresco, [[poverty]], [[crime]], [[Political corruption|corruption]] and [[war]] are the result of scarcity created by the present world's [[profit]]-based [[economic system]]. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial [[technology]]. Fresco claims that the progression of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=THE FUTURE AND BEYOND}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[Greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{imdb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic situation, being similar to —though not as severe as— the Great Depression, will lead people away from [[free-market economics]] and capitalism and make them lose confidence in the monetary establishment.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}

Fundamental to the project is the elimination of the current money-based economy in favor of what Fresco calls a "[[Jacque Fresco#Resource Based Economy|resource-based economy]]".{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}

== The Zeitgeist Movement ==

[[The Zeitgeist Movement]] works alongside The Venus Project as an activist network, allowing members to communicate and work on projects within the movement.{{cn}}

== Trademark issues ==

On 17 September 2009 The Venus Project filed a Trademark claim on the term "Resource Based Economics" also known as RBE with the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]]<ref name="PTO">{{cite web
|url=http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/portal/tow?SRCH=Y&isSubmitted=true&details=&SELECT=US+Serial+No&TEXT=77829193#
|title= PTO website, Resource Based Economy legal dispute
|publisher=tmportal.uspto.gov
|date=17 September 2009
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref>. On 6 January 2010 this was disputed<ref name="Dispute Letter from PWA">{{cite web
|url=http://www.theresourcebasedeconomy.org/ProtestLetter.html
|title= PWA Dispute legal Letter
|publisher=www.theresourcebasedeconomy.org
|date=6 January 2010
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref><ref name="Dispute memo">{{cite web
|url=http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/PA_TOWUserInterface/OpenServletWindow?serialNumber=77829193&scanDate=2010010660646&DocDesc=Administrative+Response&docType=ADR&currentPage=1&rowNum=3&rowCount=6&formattedDate=06-Jan-2010
|title= Dispute legal memo
|publisher=tmportal.uspto.gov
|date=6 January 2010
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref> by The Promethean Workers Association and was filed with the P.T.O. On 11-Jan-2010 the P.W.A. dispute was recognised as an official and valid dispute claim, so the term Resource Based Economics was deemed an illegitimate patent for T.V.P. to hold and therefore denied <ref name="Trademark denied">{{cite web
|url=http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/PA_TOWUserInterface/OpenServletWindow?serialNumber=77829193&scanDate=2010011167621&DocDesc=Offc+Action+Outgoing&docType=OOA&currentPage=1&rowNum=1&rowCount=6&formattedDate=11-Jan-2010
|title= Trademark denied
|publisher=tmportal.uspto.gov
|date=11 January 2010
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref>. The Venus Project were left with 6 months to carry out a further dispute of this matter to prove they had valid claim and argument to hold it, but this did not occur.

== See also ==

* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Cultural Creatives]]
* [[Telesis]]
* [[Project Cybersyn]]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* [http://www.thevenusproject.com/ ''The Venus Project''] – Official website
* [http://www.futurebydesignthemovie.com/ ''Future By Design''] – film about Jacque Fresco with virtual images of The Venus Project visions
* [http://vimeo.com/6346955 ''Zeitgeist Movement Lecture''] – Peter Joseph's July 25, 2009 lecture in London, UK
* [http://www.atlasinitiativegroup.org ''Atlas City Project''] - Non-Profit Group building a transitional RBE called 'Atlas City' in the USA

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Das Venus Projekt

2010-08-22T16:11:17Z

OpenFuture: /* The Zeitgeist Movement */

'''The Venus Project, Inc''' is an organization that promotes [[Jacque Fresco]]'s visions of the future with the goal to improve [[society]] by moving towards what they call [[Jacque Fresco#Resource Based Economy|resource-based economy]] and the design of [[sustainable development|sustainable]] cities, [[efficient energy use|energy efficiency]], [[natural resource]] management and advanced [[automation]], focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to society.<ref name="Living_On_Purpose">[http://www.thevenusproject.com/media/audio/The_Venus_Project_08_Living-on-Purpose.mp3 Living On Purpose: Interview with Fresco and Meadows] (MP3). The Venus Project. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}}<ref name="parole-new_venus">[http://parole.aporee.org/work/hier.php3?spec_id=24065&words_id=332 new venus] (PHP). parole.aporee.org. Retrieved on 2008-12-02.</ref>{{Verify credibility|date=July 2010}} The organization was started by Jacque Fresco<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/13/jacque-fresco-prediction-tech-future07-cx_1015fresco.html |title=Jacque Fresco On The Future |publisher=Forbes.com |date=2007-10-13 |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>, Roxanne Meadows and Sam Laurie in 1995,<ref name="articles of incorporation">[http://www.sunbiz.org/pdf/CH000360.pdf articles of incorporation] (PHP). sunbiz.org. Retrieved on 2010-12-02.</ref><ref name="corpwiki">{{cite web |url=http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Venus/the-venus-project-inc-6481878.aspx |title=The Venus Project, Inc. Company Profile - Located in Venus, FL - Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows |publisher=Corporationwiki.com |date=1995-02-14 |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref> while their website claims The Project started around 1975. ''Future by Design'', a film about the life and work of Jacque Fresco, was produced in 2006. The name of the organization originates from [[Venus, Florida|Venus]], [[Florida]], where its 21-acre (8.5-hectare) research center is located, near [[Lake Okeechobee]].<ref name="7news">{{cite web|url=http://www.wsvn.com/features/articles/specialreport/MI114870/ |title=7 News Features - The Venus Project |publisher=Wsvn.com |date=2009-03-06 |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref> Within the center are ten buildings, designed by Fresco, which showcase the architecture of the project.<ref name="7news"/>

== Theory ==

[[Image:Fresco circular city.jpg|frame|Circular city]]
According to Fresco, [[poverty]], [[crime]], [[Political corruption|corruption]] and [[war]] are the result of scarcity created by the present world's [[profit]]-based [[economic system]]. He theorizes that the [[profit motive]] also stifles [[technological progress|the progress]] of socially beneficial [[technology]]. Fresco claims that the progression of technology, if it were carried on independently of its [[Profit (economics)|profitability]], would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials. This new-found abundance of resources would, according to Fresco, reduce the human tendency toward individualism, corruption, and greed, and instead rely on people helping each other.<ref name="ZeitgeistAddMovie">{{cite web|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 |title=Zeitgeist: Addendum |publisher=Video.google.com |date= |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2010}} Fresco believes it is now possible to achieve a society in which people would live "longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives."
<ref name="Beyond Utopia">{{cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/essay#beyond |title=THE FUTURE AND BEYOND}}</ref> Fresco believes the monetary system and the processes associated with it, such as labour and competition, damages society and holds people back from their true potentials. He states his ideas would [[Greatest happiness principle|maximally benefit the greatest number of people]]. He claims some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="imdb-0870112">{{imdb title|0870112|Future by Design}}</ref> Fresco believes the current global economic situation, being similar to —though not as severe as— the Great Depression, will lead people away from [[free-market economics]] and capitalism and make them lose confidence in the monetary establishment.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}

Fundamental to the project is the elimination of the current money-based economy in favor of what Fresco calls a "[[Jacque Fresco#Resource Based Economy|resource-based economy]]".{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}

== The Zeitgeist Movement ==

[[The Zeitgeist Movement]] works alongside The Venus Project as an activist network, allowing members to communicate and work on projects within the movement.{{cn}}
The Venus Project is featured in the web film ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'',<ref name="ZeitgeistAddmovie">[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 Google Video] Zeitgeist Addendum</ref> and in the ''Zeitgeist Movement Orientation Presentation'',<ref name="Zeitgeist Movement Orientation Presentation">[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3932487043163636261 Google Video] Zeitgeist Movement Orientation Presentation</ref> as a possible solution to the global problems described in the film.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17zeitgeist.html?ref=nyregion | work=The New York Times | title=They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present | first=Alan | last=Feuer | date=2009-03-17 | accessdate=2010-05-25}}</ref>

== Trademark issues ==

On 17 September 2009 The Venus Project filed a Trademark claim on the term "Resource Based Economics" also known as RBE with the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]]<ref name="PTO">{{cite web
|url=http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/portal/tow?SRCH=Y&isSubmitted=true&details=&SELECT=US+Serial+No&TEXT=77829193#
|title= PTO website, Resource Based Economy legal dispute
|publisher=tmportal.uspto.gov
|date=17 September 2009
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref>. On 6 January 2010 this was disputed<ref name="Dispute Letter from PWA">{{cite web
|url=http://www.theresourcebasedeconomy.org/ProtestLetter.html
|title= PWA Dispute legal Letter
|publisher=www.theresourcebasedeconomy.org
|date=6 January 2010
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref><ref name="Dispute memo">{{cite web
|url=http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/PA_TOWUserInterface/OpenServletWindow?serialNumber=77829193&scanDate=2010010660646&DocDesc=Administrative+Response&docType=ADR&currentPage=1&rowNum=3&rowCount=6&formattedDate=06-Jan-2010
|title= Dispute legal memo
|publisher=tmportal.uspto.gov
|date=6 January 2010
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref> by The Promethean Workers Association and was filed with the P.T.O. On 11-Jan-2010 the P.W.A. dispute was recognised as an official and valid dispute claim, so the term Resource Based Economics was deemed an illegitimate patent for T.V.P. to hold and therefore denied <ref name="Trademark denied">{{cite web
|url=http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/PA_TOWUserInterface/OpenServletWindow?serialNumber=77829193&scanDate=2010011167621&DocDesc=Offc+Action+Outgoing&docType=OOA&currentPage=1&rowNum=1&rowCount=6&formattedDate=11-Jan-2010
|title= Trademark denied
|publisher=tmportal.uspto.gov
|date=11 January 2010
|accessdate=2009-12-07
}}</ref>. The Venus Project were left with 6 months to carry out a further dispute of this matter to prove they had valid claim and argument to hold it, but this did not occur.

== See also ==

* [[Technocracy Movement]]
* [[Cultural Creatives]]
* [[Telesis]]
* [[Project Cybersyn]]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* [http://www.thevenusproject.com/ ''The Venus Project''] – Official website
* [http://www.futurebydesignthemovie.com/ ''Future By Design''] – film about Jacque Fresco with virtual images of The Venus Project visions
* [http://vimeo.com/6346955 ''Zeitgeist Movement Lecture''] – Peter Joseph's July 25, 2009 lecture in London, UK
* [http://www.atlasinitiativegroup.org ''Atlas City Project''] - Non-Profit Group building a transitional RBE called 'Atlas City' in the USA

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