What Are Fresco's Major Accomplishments

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Fresco is one of America’s leading futurists, social engineers, self-directed learners, visionaries, industrial engineers, inventors, conventional architects, writer, directors, and consultants. Fresco is a forerunner in the field of Human Factor Engineering and is talented in a wide range of fields from aerospace to psychology. Fresco’s accomplishments include designing a disc-shaped aircraft with a radical variable camber wing that allowed pilots to adjust the thickness of the wings during lift and flight, designing low cost, aluminum and glass houses, teaching industrial design, writing seven books, and working as a technical consultant on motion pictures including the Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, he also has made educational videos about

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