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Missing public and private funds, missed deadlines, and dead projects: Nathanael Dinwiddie's "Man Of Tomorrow" movie scam

A contact recently discovered a project created and developed by one of the crucial men in charge of the current Board of Directors, and de factor current leader of The Venus Project.

Started in 2012, Man of Tomorrow, to quote their webiste, was supposed to be "more than a film. It is an attempt to preserve and perpetuate the work of Jacque Fresco. In fact, to that it owes its origins. Man of Tomorrow is the result of years of researching and archiving materials related to the life of Jacque Fresco. Originally beginning as an effort to organize and preserve Fresco’s creative work, it has since evolved into a feature length documentary. It was easy to realize the potential value of utilizing so much archival material, as well as the perspectives of Fresco’s past associates expressed in recorded oral histories" ( https://web.archive.org/web/20180826014719/http://frescofuture.com/about.html )

One notable aspect of the project was its purported collaboration with Videoneat, a platform seemingly affiliated with TROM, a venture later estranged by The Venus Project.

Delving in, we find out more, including the fact that it was apparently made with funds from a grant by the University of Kansas. https://www.facebook.com/manoftomorrowfilm/posts/pfbid0y2kXTPzKXBrSSxNRTHqrBMyGboEF72d54MxbvNXDFa4bfgThctAhQ6g846sMnGELl

https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/15029/Dinwiddie_jur14.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Another thing of interest was the following:

the film will contain much of the recently organized archival materials, consisting of more than 2,000 audio and video recordings, 2,500 photographic images, 3,500 design renderings, 300 physical models, and hundreds of documents."

Going by their Facebook posts(https://www.facebook.com/manoftomorrowfilm), it promises about 2 dozen interviews, as well as the aformentioned archival material.

Interestingly, we have no video materials released as proof of either the interviews, or the archives. A reasonable man can also ask how are 24 interviews, as well as most of the archives, supposed to fit in a documentary that is supposed to run for only a couple of hours.

So once again, the archive material was promised to be processed, years before the never finished Jacque Fresco transcription project.

While the Kickstarter campaign was never begun, it seems there was a Contribute Early campaign, so in conjunction with the public funds from the University of Kansas, there was an unspecified amount of private money that also went missing.

Just like today, the man now legally in charge of The Venus Project, dragged on a project related to Jacque Fresco's archives, for years, while constantly telling us to wait a bit more, since it's coming soon.

And i haven't mentioned the biggest failure yet. The use of funds for a major art film, created from the $200,000 crowdfunding campaign. Nate was brought in to write the script after the others didn't work out. He sat for 2 years studying transmedia projects and whatnot and rolled out a big report that they had this project laid out and put on the shelf.

So to conclude, during his time collaborating with TVP, according to the above mentioned sources, as well as TVP's 2020 agenda(https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2590415834505415) Nathanael Dinwiddie has been coordinating the following projects:

-Center for Resource Management;

-Jacque Fresco Transcription effort;

-Creation of script for a full-length film;

-A TVP podcast;

-"Man of Tomorrow" movie;

-A virtual reality simulator;

All the mentioned projects have overpromised, have raised an undisclosed amount of funds, then consistently stretched out the deadline, before quitely dropping these goals.

All efforts have said to result in massive libraries of content, that are conveniently unaccesible, while the money raised by good-intentioned contributors have vanished without a trace.

This reveals a pattern of either malicious scamming, or incompetence, involving public and private funds, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, broken promises, and missing resources, stretching back over a decade.

And now the same Nathaniel Dinwiddie is in charge of setting up The Jacque Fresco Foundation, who's site hasn't updated in a year, and the highly controversial The Venus Evolution fiasco, while once again telling the public everything will be ready soon, and it's none of our concern what he does with the money.

Need i say more?

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