I have to confess something about this interview.
I really liked Jacque Fresco. Not as a thinker I was supposed to admire, but as a person: the humor, the humility, the scientific curiosity still burning at 97.
That made the disagreements harder, not easier.
Fresco spent almost a century arguing one idea. We apply the methods of #science to engineering, to medicine, to flight. Then we run our economies and our politics on opinion, tradition, and the preferences of the financial elite.
He thought we had it exactly inverted. Rigor for the machines, guesswork for the humans.
“Technology was never the hard part. The harder question is what kind of society we want it to serve.”
Across 72 minutes, we got into #scarcity and money, the Venus Project, why he called most people “unsane”, whether philosophers are bullshitters, Ayn Rand, #AI and the #singularity, death and cryonics.
You will also catch the moments where I did not buy what he was selling. I left those in on purpose.
The line I carried away: “study the meaning of science, and apply its methods to the social system.”
Whether that is a blueprint or a beautiful impossibility is for you to decide.
Full interview [ https://snglrty.co/4mU7oLf](https://snglrty.co/4mU7oLf)
Jacque Fresco is a futurist, inventor, social engineer, visionary, and technician, best known for the Venus Project.
In his Future By Design documentary about Fresco’s life and ideas, Emmy-winning filmmaker William Gazecki called the 97-year-old Jacque “a modern-day Da Vinci.” Others have called him “a new Buckminster Fuller.”
Now, I have to admit that I really like Jacque as a person – he just seems to have a unique combination of wisdom, life experience, a sense of humor, and personal humility. I also admire his multi-disciplinary accomplishments and his seemingly never-ending enthusiasm and scientific curiosity. This, however, doesn’t mean that I agree with him on everything that he says or proposes, and you would see a few of those moments during our 72-minute interview. At any rate, the best thing you can do is to watch the interview in full, read Jacque’s book – The Best That Money Can’t Buy, and judge for yourself.