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A Mondern Visionary!, 30 November 2006
10/10
Author: viviwanu from CA

I don't understand why this extraordinary film has not received much attention it deserves. It came out just in time - in a time of great chaos around the globe where humans as a species are getting ready (hopefully) to embark on becoming "civilized" or to self exterminate.

Jacque Fresco is certainly one of the very few true geniuses in human history who came to help elevate the primordial human consciousness. Unfortunately, he's about at least 50 years ahead of our time. This world is just starting to grasp some of his revolutionary visions from the latter part of the last century of the last millennium.

This film is nicely illustrated, well done. High quality professional CGIs certainly added that magic touch. I was glue to my TV screen mesmerized, hungrily took in every word that so eloquently came out of Jacque's mouth - it was heavenly music to my ears. All my life, I have had all these scattered bits of similar ideas, concept, and visions that I was unable to organize, let alone materialize.

Anyone who happened upon this, please go buy the DVD and watch it - you owe it to yourself that much and it will, with no doubt, change your life in more ways than you are conscious of.

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A Fresconian Future, 9 July 2008
10/10
Author: s_p_r_6 from United States

This film is an intimate look at the inimitable and controversial musings of Jacque Fresco. Future by Design presents a uniquely Fresconian future where many of our current concerns and apprehensions are addressed and creatively dealt with. Fascinating and provocative. I agree with my fellow reviewer that this film deserves to be more closely examined and widely released, especially given the fact that much of what Fresco theorized has already come to pass. Future by Design is a well-made, insightful and prophetic documentary, as well as yet another example of a small film that delivers a big message.

Highly recommended.

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Interesting sociological and scientific ideas, mind-blowing at times !, 1 October 2007
10/10
Author: Panterken from Belgium

The ideas in this movie are controversial and so is the man who is the source of them: Is Jacque Fresco a genius or simply a delusional fantast? He's a little of both (although 'a little' doesn't to the man justice). Some of the technological revolutionary ideas he has are really non-realizable, although no one can predict the distant future. It's a pity the film didn't go deeper, talk about the designs them selves and the ideas and scientific principles behind them. We see a lot of fancy propositions but not a lot of concrete information is given. The idealogical ideas he has, the ones we get illustrated towards the end of the movie, are far more interesting and though I strongly disagree with him on several points, I still feel his vision is an interesting one to collide your own with. I'm not at all interested in engineering, (though I once made a science project about the transatlantic tunnel), but that's not what the whole movie is about. It's really an eye-opener, a wake-up call, someone is finally saying it's not okay that the world is messed up and most important of all: we can fix it!. Optimism will be our savior, and in this time of global warming, world hunger and massive war we badly need one ( and not a man with long hair and a white robe ;-)). The film's no holy grail but I would sure like to see some of the ideas implemented in the future world, and I strongly suspect Mr. Fresco will be remembered in the distant future as a man who wasn't appreciated enough in his own time.

Certainly worth a watch, entertaining and even enlightening.

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Future by fantasizing, 24 September 2007
1/10
Author: freefall-10

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Jacque Fresco calls himself a 'social engineer', and doesn't understand why people call him a communist. He just wants to apply the scientific method to society. This will eliminate war, crime, and poverty. In the future we won't need money (or religion). Everyone has access to what they need.

Curiosly, his future 'city systems' include a center for 'population designing', along with 'product improvement', 'agronomy' etc. These cities, which he also calls 'governmental branches', are circular and perfectly symmetrical. There will be less opinion in the future, and more information.

To lend a scientific aura to his philosophy, he's got some nice drawings of things that are supposed to be futuristic; maglev trains, weird shape helicopters, and ion drives.

Fresco solves the world's energy problem with two magic words: 'geo thermal' energy. No further elaboration. "There's no shortage of anything, except brains in Washington." "When you leave a building in the future, the whole building will be clean." No explanation given. "There will be no waste products. Everything will be recycled." No questions asked.

The babbling goes on and on, for an hour and a half. A servile narrator compares Fresco to Leonardo da Vinci. The CGI is nice and the music is peachy.

Rating: 1/10.

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