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== History == | == History == | ||
The Venus Project was founded, and its ideas and goals largely inspired by, the works of the futurist Jacque Fresco, and his associate, Roxanne Meadows. While the first prerequisite organisations that Jacque Fresco influenced were largely focused on things of a relatively more | The Venus Project was founded, and its ideas and goals largely inspired by, the works of the futurist Jacque Fresco, and his associate, Roxanne Meadows. While the first prerequisite organisations that Jacque Fresco influenced were largely focused on things of a relatively more trival nature, such as ecological protection and infrastructure, Fresco's ambitions would, by the 1970's,<ref>{{Web citation|author=Jaime Lopez|newspaper=The Costa Rica Star|title=Floating Cities and Resource-Based Economies|url=https://news.co.cr/floating-cities-and-resource-based-economies/2954/|retrieved=2022-8-7|quote=In the 1970s, Fresco began to envision smart cities where technology and energy conservation strategies were used to benefit humanity. He called the idea Sociocyberneering, and eventually incorporate a business entity under that name. He lived in South Florida at the time, and circular structures continued to dominate his designs. Sociocyberneering, Inc. purchased farm land in Venus, an unincorporated region of Highlands County near Lake Okeechobee. On that farm, Fresco conducted different types of research on futuristic dwellings with Roxanne Meadows, his closest colleague. The research would eventually grow into the Venus Project, a vision of a truly free society that operates under the principles of a resource-based economy.}}</ref> be more concerned with things such as [[social engineering]], and technological advancement.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=The Venus Project|title=Jacque Freesco|url=https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/|retrieved=2022-8-7}}</ref> | ||
The foundations for the Venus Project were created when, later on in the 20th century, a small area of land was bought and turned into a reserch community near the small locality of Venus, in the [[USA]] state of [[Florida]], hence where the Venus Project recived its name. | The foundations for the Venus Project were created when, later on in the 20th century, a small area of land was bought and turned into a reserch community near the small locality of Venus, in the [[USA]] state of [[Florida]], hence where the Venus Project recived its name. | ||