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Future by design.
I was always interesting by the future as far back as I can remember.
I drew airplanes and cities of the future,
and underwater cities,
and floating cities.
Now this looks like some sort of submerged stadium with something.
We might build circular cities in the sea.
Most of the apartment houses will open out into the sea.
You can observe marine life and fish swimming by.
They'll be no zoos, no seaquariums,
everything will be observed in natural conditions.
They'll be boating, scuba diving, recreation, universities
built in the sea.
These drawings all made by you?
Yes.
Jacque Fresco is a self-taught scientist,
architect, and inventor.
For his entire life he has been deeply committed to investigation,
insight, and innovation.
A prolific creator and builder,
Jacque has been redesigned our entire culture, for most of his life.
Jacque Fresco doesn't just want to talk about what today will be like tomorrow.
He has a plan to build an entire new world from the ground up.
So the models that I make are all transitional,
and many of them are only conceptual,
they're not necessarily what the future might look like.
They're only, well, let's say, extrapolations,
taking the present and extrapolating forward.
But we can't go too far forward because we don't know what new things will come into view.
Are you betting that people will not declare war on each other?
So that you can get to building all of this?
Well, we don't have much choice.
We're going to destroy each other, or we're going to make it.
When you try to think about the future,
remember this:
the process with which you think about things
is based upon indoctrination, which is given by a society.
So you're range of thought, is limited by the dominant values of your society.
We talk about civilization as though it's a static state,
and there are no civilized people yet.
It's a process that's constantly going on.
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime,
you're in the early stages of civilization,
what they call civilization.
All the marvels and wonders of technology can amount to nothing unless
it elevates humans to their highest potential.
This is the aim of the future by design.