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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.<ref name="tvp-wikipedia"/>
 
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.<ref name="tvp-wikipedia"/>
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== Transition to RBE plans ==
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The Venus Project claims on its website, at the header of every page, that ''The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology and nature will be able to coexist in a long term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium''.<ref name="tvp-website-main"/>
  
 
== Criticism ==
 
== Criticism ==

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About

"The Venus Project advocates an alternative vision for a sustainable new world civilization unlike any socio-economic system that has gone before. It calls for a straightforward redesign of a culture, in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt, and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but totally unacceptable."<ref name="tvp-website-main">The Venus Project website frontpage</ref>

The Venus Project (TVP) is an organization started by self-educated structural engineer, industrial designer, and futurist Jacque Fresco. Fresco's project aims to restructure society through worldwide utilization of a theoretical design that he calls a resource-based economy. Those ideas use a version of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management and advanced automation with a global socio-economic system based on social cooperation and scientific methodology.<ref name="tvp-wikipedia">The Venus Project Wikipedia entry</ref>

The Venus Project was started around 1975 by Jacque Fresco<ref name="Forbes-Duranni">Durrani, Noni (2007-10-15). 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.<ref name="tvp-wikipedia"/>

Transition to RBE plans

The Venus Project claims on its website, at the header of every page, that The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology and nature will be able to coexist in a long term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.<ref name="tvp-website-main"/>

Criticism

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The RBE10K Project considers that the transition approach proposed depends on the wiling participation of power structures who are unlikely to resign their stronghold, and that living in a RBE must be voluntary and cannot be imposed on anyone without creating social conflict.

Other critics registered include:

  • Design and presentation is overly and unnecessarily futuristic, with very little emphasis in the psychology and social values of such arrangement.
  • The aesthetics of designs are too influenced by anachronic aesthetic notions of the 60s and 70s.
  • Despite TVP's plans for the transition, there is no evidence that such plans exist, and TVP keeps very secretive and protective of its ideas, which are in contrast with the open nature of a RBE
  • TVP is overly dependent on the person of Jacque Fresco, who advanced age places the whole project at risk, having not trained anyone else to take his post
  • Jacque Fresco is very protective of his intellectual property, including the term Resource-Based Economy, which is inconsistent with the principles and values of such system

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