Recommended Books, Films, and Videos
Legacy sources
Jacque Fresco recommended many books. For a complete list of Fresco’s book recommendations, visit the Jacque Fresco Foundation website.
Contemporary sources
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
2014
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
2014
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
2002
Web of Debt
2007
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
1980
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
1990
The Systems Model of Creativity
2014
Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications
2003
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
2018
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
2021
The Best That Money Can’t Buy
2002
The Entropy Law and the Economic Process
1971
Outliers: The Story of Success
2008
Chaos: Making a New Science
1987
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
2021
Energy and the Wealth of Nations: An Introduction to Biophysical Economics
2011
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability
2002
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
2010
Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow
2011
Metaphors We Live By
1980
Philosophy in the Flesh: the Embodied Mind & Its Challenge to Western Thought
1999
Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion
2008
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
1962
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
2009
Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World
2018
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
2021
Thinking in Systems
2008
Principles of Systems Science
2014
A Theory of Sapience: Using Systems Science to Understand the Nature of
Wisdom and the Human Mind
2019
Systems Science: Theory, Analysis, Modeling, and Design
2022
Permaculture Two: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture
1979
Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet: Assessing and Adapting to Planetary Limits
2021
A Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies
2001
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
2004
The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World
2007
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
2016
The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predicament
1997
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
2017
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
2023
The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action
1983
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
1998
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
2017
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization
1994
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development
1988
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
1997
Cynefin – Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World
2020
The Collapse of Complex Societies
1988
Quarks to Culture: How We Came to Be
2017
Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge
2002
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
1998
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
2015
The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion – Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
2016
