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The Venus Project is founded by Jacque Fresco who is a futurist, inventor and industrial designer. The project focuses on creating a self-sufficient society with the use of technology. The Venus project focuses on creating a world whereby human beings, technology and nature live and work together in harmony. This project also implies the elimination of the monetary system, it promises a world without poverty, debt and any other unnecessary human suffering.
The Venus Project is founded by Jacque Fresco who is a futurist, inventor and industrial designer. The project focuses on creating a self-sufficient society with the use of technology. The Venus project focuses on creating a world whereby human beings, technology and nature live and work together in harmony. This project also implies the elimination of the monetary system, it promises a world without poverty, debt and any other unnecessary human suffering.
When I first read about the Venus project I almost gave up mid-way because it sounded like another unrealistic dream. However, after conducting research and understanding the concepts I began to see that this project is most defiantly possible. Advancements in technology are allowing humans to do things that were once unimaginable.
Western culture forces us to believe that success and happiness will come from money; the advertising industry knows this and uses it to manipulate people by constantly project images of ‘happy’ consumers whereas we all know this is very un true. I think this type of view leads to a fundamentally unhappy society whereby people are focused on consuming as much as they can but feeling left unsatisfied.
I believe that the current state in western society is fundamentally a result of false endeavours, greed and delusional prospects. If we compare western society to societies whereby money isn’t culturally value we can clearly see the effect this outlook has had. Linking this to my previous blog, I think, people living in western societies use methods of escapism more than anywhere else in the world; this is due to the constant pressures of day to day life. This illusion that we have to be ‘doing something with our lives’ and that if you aren’t making money in a productive way you are a ‘failure’. It is this exact outlook that drives people to escapism because they can’t face their everyday situation.
‘’The Venus Project recommends that the present state and aims of architecture be redefined to fit the evolving needs of individuals in this new, emergent culture.’’
The Venus Project is proposing a world that does not revolve around money and although it does sound Disney like, I think it is very possible.
See more at : http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/technology
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