
Future By Design
Jacque Fresco spent seven decades designing a version of civilization built around cities of curved, resource-efficient architecture, automated production, and money-free access to goods, a plan he called the Venus Project. This film follows him through his Florida workshop and scale models, letting him narrate his own path from self-taught engineer and aircraft designer to full-time futurist. Interviews trace his early influences, his stint in industrial design, and the falling-out with mainstream economics that pushed him toward proposing an entirely different social operating system, one where cybernetic management and shared resources replace markets and politics. Fresco talks through his blueprints for circular cities, his skepticism about capitalism's ability to solve scarcity, and his conviction that most social problems are engineering problems in disguise. The film treats him as a serious, if unconventional, systems thinker rather than a curiosity, giving long stretches of screen time to his models and sketches. It works best as a portrait of one man's totalizing plan for redesigning how people live, work, and govern themselves.