
Future By Design
Jacque Fresco spent seven decades designing cities, transportation systems, and social structures meant to replace money, politics, and scarcity altogether, and this film follows the self-taught engineer and industrial designer through his home and workshop in Venus, Florida. Fresco walks through scale models of circular cities, automated production systems, and resource-based planning that he argues could eliminate the waste and conflict built into market economies. Interviews trace his path from a childhood questioning religion and government to decades spent building prototypes, patents, and architectural renderings largely outside academic or corporate institutions. Colleagues and collaborators, including Roxanne Meadows, describe the Venus Project's core claim: that scarcity is manufactured, not natural, and that technology already exists to provide abundance for everyone without labor as we know it. The film lays out Fresco's blueprints for cities, his critique of capitalism and nationalism, and his conviction that human behavior would change if the systems around it did. It plays as both biography and manifesto for an idea most viewers have never encountered in this much detail.