Jacque Fresco is known around the world for his daring call for social change and inspiring
vision of the future.
“An alternative vision for a sustainable new world civilization unlike any in the past.”
Despite Fresco's death in 2017, interest in his work persists.
A search on Youtube will show countless videos of Fresco giving introductory lectures to
public audiences. But many don’t know that Fresco's work extends far beyond the public eye.
Hi everyone.
My name is Nathanael Dinwiddie. From 2011 to 2015, I visited The Venus Project to archive
the body of work of Jacque Fresco. We’re here at The Venus Project and this is the
archive building. Inside, I have something I’d like to show you.
The Venus Project houses an archive collection of photographs, papers, books, design sketches,
technical drawings, and handcrafted models, all of which document The Venus Project's
history of development. Most importantly, audio and video recordings spanning from 1969
to 2017 represent the richest source of information about Jacque Fresco's ideas, and for this
reason, they warrant the most consideration.
You may be familiar with Fresco’s most popular introductory text, The Best That Money Can’t
Buy. Despite some publishing history, Fresco was not as much a prolific writer as he was
a prolific lecturer and designer. As a consequence, the information contained in his recordings
is not easy to access without transcripts. The Venus Project has coordinated volunteers
to transcribe this collection since 2014. Fresco died in 2017 and as of late 2019, we
have yet to transcribe beyond 14% of his 840 unique lectures. Fresco’s work aimed at
addressing global problems and global solutions, and one of the few to do so with a comprehensive
approach. With global crises on the rise, this leads us to an increasing sense of urgency.
We fear that unless his body of work is made more visible to the public, it runs the risk
of being lost or forgotten, or never utilized to its full potential. We stand to lose one
of the world's most visionary voices.
To accelerate accessing information in Fresco’s lectures, we would like to hire freelancers
on Fiverr to produce transcripts, as a cheaper option than hiring a firm and at a quality
higher than automated speech to text.
These transcripts will be made searchable and published to the public as part of a Collected
Works of Jacque Fresco. This will be valuable to anyone seeking to examine Fresco’s ideas
in-depth, useful to The Venus Project nonprofit organization as a reference for maintaining
direction, and useful to scholars in citing Fresco when undertaking their own research.
These transcripts will also be useful in the worldbuilding process for a Transmedia IP
based upon Fresco’s vision of the future.
As anxious as we are to further develop The Venus Project, the current campaign aims toward
a fundamental yet unfinished task, and that is securing Fresco's contribution, not just
to the foundations of The Venus Project, but science, philosophy, and Western discourse.
Hello everyone, I’m Roxanne Meadows. I worked alongside Jacque Fresco for over 40 years
helping to create a portion of what you see in our archives.
In early 2017, Evan Hirsch, Kip Baldwin and the SOUL Documentary team conducted the last
interview with Jacque Fresco. The result is a 30 minute film entitled A World Worth Imagining:
Jacque Fresco, the Man with the Plan. In cooperation with S.O.U.L Documentary, we have started
a campaign for which they will give matching donations up to $50,000. These funds will
help us cover the transcription costs for Fresco's lectures in addition to funding literature
reviews on a number of subjects important to The Venus Project's knowledge base.
We plan to continue this campaign until Dec,15th, 2019.
Jacque Fresco's work has made a positive impact on people from all walks of life, and with
your help, it will continue to do so. If you value the work of Jacque Fresco, please donate
to this campaign. Your contribution will assure that these assets are further preserved
and made available.
Thanks for watching.