The Venus Project

The Venus Project is a educational think-tank calling for a "redesign of culture." The views of engineer, architect and futurist Jacque Fresco are central to the movement.The Venus Project: What is the Venus Project?

The project believes that the "obsolete monetary system has fragmented and enslaved culture as the fractional reserve banking system creates an stream of endless debt that can never be repayed. As part of a completely redesigned culture, humankind should direct "our technology and resources toward the positive, for the maximum benefit of people and planet..."The Venus Project: What is the Venus Project?

The Venus Project believes that technology has given humankind the means to produce goods and services in abundance for everyone. However, the outmoded political and economic systems still in hold sway over societies as corporations pursue "self-interest and monetary gain through planned obsolescence sometimes referred to as the conscious withdrawal of efficiency."The Venus Project: What is the Venus Project?

Technology is central to the project as it gives humankind the opportunity to meet the survival needs of everyone on planet earth. To followers of the Venus Project, such a free society that unites mankind through technology is not possible under the current system as banks and are motived by profit.

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