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Video: See the Future Now!

youtube.com — Future by Design shares the life and far-reaching vision of Jacque Fresco, considered by many to be a modern day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a "generalist" or multi-disciplinarian

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  • plarp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59see the future now.. buffering....
    • bbnkstr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9you will come across similar ideas when playing civilization iv :)
    • vbsurfer, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5The frame rate is way too low to watch any further.
    • MAdaXe42, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Frame rate is terrible.....

      The buildings at 2:30 look a *lot* like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel
    • MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3HE STOLE MY IDEAS!
    • bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5He summed it up better than I've ever heard... The artwork was great, but the real thing to take from this is:

      "While you have war, police, prisons, crime you're in the early stages of civilisation."
      "All the marvels and wonders of technology can amount to nothing unless it elevates humans to their highest potential"
    • pinky24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"The frame rate is way too low to watch any further."

      here: http://www.fbdthemovie.com/trailer.html
  • chrissg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Brilliant. Very inspirational to artists and architects. I don't know about the cars though. haha
  • objectnull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://thefuturebydesign.com/ link to the films website.
  • drummer1189, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3way cool
  • moonwell, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1nice from an old hippie :D
  • t4k3n, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1-bury-
  • CannedMango, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2I liked the future version of the NES... and I thought the Wii was thinking outside the box
  • molsen311, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4very cool designs, but i don't know how well thought out they are.. for example, in most of his models of large buildings, offices, etc., where are the parking lots? is every single person going to commute on a train?
    • chijim70, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21 I think that is the idea. Look at most major cities like here in Chicago. I know more who don't have cars, and CAN afford them, than those who do.
      I also believe that if you give 2 cents of concern for nature you would live up not out. In other words, live in a city in a high rise and go visit the country when so inclined. Do not go live in the country and claim you live there because you love nature. The result of people (even my own parents did this) living out in the woods results within 10 years (or a lot less) of roads, housing developments, and strip malls being thrown up.
      In Missouri the fishing hole I used to wade through the woods and brush to get to as a teen is now surrounded by a housing development with little docks jutting into it and is completely fished out... I'm willing to bet every one of those jerks thought, "well I just wanted to get out of the city and be surrounded by a more natural environment with clean air etc.". Well... way to go jerks... now you deforested, polluted, and all out destroyed what WAS natural. Thanks!
      I'm sure you get the point...
    • echinatl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10This is because these huge structures are meant to be self sufficient. You won't need car's when everything you need is close to you. It's brilliant and shows solid planning.
    • CatsAreGods, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Scary to see so many people who want to live like ants...
    • wingnut21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Car's are necessarily the problem. Sure, they allowed sprawl, but in the future all moving vehicles will most likely run off of clean energy.

      I personally would hate being stuck in one structure for all of my needs. It'd be like living on top of a wal mart. Most humans have too great of a desire to get out and explore.

      Also, besides the stabilizing temperature benefits, living underwater is ridiculous. Oh let's count the ways: no natural ventilation, lack of vegetation, no natural daylighting, no easy escape, structural/window failure... let's leave it to the native sea creatures.
  • rageguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I think iPod white will become the cliché of the future for the early 21st century that will never be fully realised. Sort of like the jet fighter cars of the sixties.
    • echinatl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Yes, because he started doing this after Apple invented the iPod....
  • Reziarfg, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Not to be a pessimist, but I hope there ARE seas left in the future. =X
    • bradmoreland, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Oh, there will be seas in the future. Just no marine life left in them.
    • ryodoan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I don't believe this, there will still be life in them, just not as we know it today.
    • HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Oh, there'll be oceans. Rather, hope that we'll still have land somewhere.
    • patrickbwells, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There will be sea's alright. It's just that they will be in places like Texas and Nevada.
  • sokz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The music which kicks in at 1:55 is pure hilarity
  • pegme, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Even if his designs aren't up your alley, the true purpose of "The Future of Design" is to realize that what he said about perception is true. That civilization is not static, and it is a dynamic system. It is a dynamic system that changes according to the popular values and trends in a society. This is just the tip of the iceberg, but do us all a favor and don't ***** block the future with your daily show hipster cynicism.
    • davecor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12A lot of his designs seem attainable with current technology. Disney theme parks have pulled this kind of stuff off with great success.

      Here is where the "hipster cynicism" creeps in...

      Imagine the people who live in your (or any city) suddenly dumped into these gorgeous cities of the future.

      They would soon be filled with advertisements, graffiti and litter.

      Our cities look the way they do because they are a reflection of us as a collective. WE aren't that shiny and beautiful yet... I'm an optimist, I did say "YET". Gene Roddenberry had a similar vision and I think someday we will achieve it.

      But I won't see it
      :-(
    • jcp20, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1News flash - no one has accurately predicted the future yet. It's hardly possible to predict what our technology will look like in the future - that's up to us to decide. But I do agree with what he said about civilization. A civilization which has crime, prisons, pollution, war, etc. is still only in it's early stages. I think that was the most important point he got across.
  • mofomojo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18The future seems very bleak, from general observations of the direction of nations such as the United Kingdom - amongst others such as the United States. I've come to the conclusion that surveillance, lack of language skills, reliance on video for information and a widespread distraction culture of entertainment looms in the prospects of mankind in the years to come.

    Nobody will ever use nuclear warheads in the future years to come. Governments will just grow in fear of shadowy terrorist brotherhood organizations and place entire nations under surveillance and could possibly suspend the democratic process if they deem it neccesary for their goals.

    People are becoming less and less like individuals, and more and more like animals - free, like cattle. A mere visit to any videogame forum is evident of this. People are in constant bicker over whos console is better than the other. Which is why they should be adressed as children, irrelavant of their age.

    The future is bleak or glorious. I agree with that. Destruction will never exist for mankind, only obstruction. By obstruction I refer to the bland, compact dystopian metropolitan surveilled taste of what I detect the future to be. Men, penned up like cattle, free to eat their cattle ***** of entertainment that their masters give them. No more independence or freedom of press, all television stations and sources of information are owned by the government or auto-fellating corporations like Microsoft or Times-New Warner AOL.

    Anybody who resists is an outcast, a hippy, a hacker, a communist or a terrorist.

    Hopefully, the Internet will be the hero of mankind, however, regarding the amount of censorship and uselessness that it's been put to by individual site admins, corporations, the government and ISPs, I'm doubtful.

    May men, and only men, save us. God does not exist.

    Dear world, please grow up - up out of this childish, overweight fit of corporate consumerism.
    • unversed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I digg that
    • tigerpaper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1We witnessed one very small step in the right direction yesterday! ...hopefully :
  • n00854180t, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Auto-didacts FTW!
  • bennypowers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They are nice drawings, but they don't take into account the way neighborhoods are made.

    See Jane Jacobs "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"
    • geminito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Neat computer generated models. But no one is going to buy snow globe cars, which have been predicted since the 1960's. And I doubt anyone on earth will ever have the opportunity to build from scratch, "from the ground up", to create perfect, symmetric, white, gleaming cities. What about the current trend of lofts vs. condos? People like old buildings, old architecture, and even a touch of industrial design. Perfectly smooth, symmetric, white shapes are boring and oppressive.
    • AlanKc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I believe the whole point is to "open your mind", not, "lets think back in history".
  • everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2cool stuff. i love concept design.
  • yensed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love how there is Water everywhere and always seems sunny... Psh, Who said the Ice caps were important.
  • there, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12
    "There are no civilized people yet. ... as long as you have wars, police, prisons, crime you're in the early stages of civilization."

    Brilliant.

    • romman00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if this is true, then humans will never be civilized. there will be at least one human in the human race (and most likely many more) who will do evil and mess it up for everyone else. this has been shown to be true countless times throughout history and it is not going to change in the future.
    • motionblur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It was as if he was quoting Gene Roddenberry.
    • Lobster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What is presented is feasible and very sweet. Key technologies may alter what is credible. At the moment we are designing technologies based on barely emerging information. We begin where the futurists end. Kind of weird.
      http://tmxxine.com/Wikka/
    • there, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"this has been shown to be true countless times throughout history and it is not going to change in the future."

      There are no reasons in physics or biology that say war and crime are necessary parts of living. If people listened to negative arguments like that we would never have flown gone to the moon or allow everyone to vote.

      What you don't understand about words like "crime", "evil", "wars" is everything happens for a reason. If you deal with the underlying reasons why things occur you improve things.

      Unfortunately too many people whisk problems into a moralistic metaphysical scrapheap they never gets addressed. A long time ago they burned people as witches if their cows died because of disease. It was not causality nor reason that drove them to this decision... it was ignorance.

      Likewise today we throw our "witches" to the fire. The reality is if we can identify the reasons why these problems arise in the first place we no longer need to focus on human sacrifice as a "solution" to problems.
  • bmson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There are three things we know.
    - Things we know we know.
    - Things we know we don't know
    - And things we don't know we don't know.

    I know nr.1 can image nr.2 but I can't wait for the future so I can "know" nr.3
  • zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2At about 40 seconds in I expected to see pod 6 go boom.
  • bradbaxter, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Looks like a future designed by Apple. But on a critical note... the man sounds like a humanist. We are not civilized until we have no prisons? Oh really? He's dreaming of something that will never exist. He is a utopian who believes that through human achievement, probably through one centralized world government, we can finally cure "ills" such as crime and war. Sorry... the designs can be achieved, but his social utopian fantasy cannot.
    • jmnugent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Oh ye of little faith,

      The most effective thing you can do to insure we dont see any improvements in the future is to be cynical and say: "It wont ever happen."

      The future is hard to predict..we will see great advances in technology, chemistry and material science. We have the potential to solve world diseases and problems like crime and violence (which are caused by jealousy and social haves and have nots) but only if we WORK TOGETHER and quit wasting all this time fighting each other and squabbling over petty things like politics and money.
    • bradbaxter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I have faith, but it isn't in man, government or technological advance. We might end up with all the shiny stuff in his paintings, but we will not eradicate crime and wars. Human nature cannot be doctored. Just as we cannot breed ourselves into a supreme race of humans -- it is a utopian concept that has had its adherents. But there has always been a great price to pay for playing God.
  • SadPanda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Reminds me of some of the architecture in the movie "Minority Report" In fact, some of the structures look straight out identical.
  • HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Much of the "inspiration" shown in that video was a direct ripoff from Asimov's musings on the future, which is why it indeed did look like Minority Report and I, Robot. The rest of Asimov's imagined future is already here. :P
  • CrimsonBlur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This is classic Humanist, Utopian dreaming. The man has a great talent for putting his ideas onto paper in a beautiful and captivating way, sure, but I see no indication from what I've seen or read thanks to this link that tells me his ideas are at all revolutionary in our current society, let alone for a future one.

    The reason so many people are referencing things like Minority Report, etc., is because most of this stuff is just a carbon copy of Asimov's own visions of the future, who is the person that wrote the stories that inspired Minority Report and Blade Runner, just to name a couple.
    • CrimsonBlur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, you're right, you caught me being an idiot and typing fast after getting home from work. I was looking at the post above mine while typing and wrote the wrong name (who also coincidentally cited the wrong person), so sue me. You put in the correct person so I'm not digging you down, but people like you are the reason Digg is annoying. You can make your point without making assumptions about me being a "dolt".

      And yes, I know the difference between the two viewpoints, but his DESIGNS remind me more of Philip K. Dick in stories like "Minority Report" and some of the things he alluded to in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" aka what we saw in Blade Runner. That's just what immediately came to mind for me personally. But I don't think his vision of the future is the same, just some of his ideas of what things will look like, which is why I was referencing what things LOOKED like, not his Utopian ideas, which are obviously NOTHING like Minority Report or Blade Runner.

      Man, take a chill pill.
  • mongrel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"I want to build the future from the ground up." - Well from the looks of it you'd better get going, pops!
  • upsidedork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Almost no humans appear in those designs -- is he planning for people, or for the architecture?

    I think the reason that people don't belong in those particular urban designs is that we don't tend to hang out in places unless there's something specific for us there. And none of those buildings appear to have any destinations -- they're all just windows and doors. Maybe if he put some shops or art or transit hubs at ground level, rather than paths to nothing, it would look like a place that people would actually enjoy spending time.

    It all looks like a collection of very attractive prisons to me.
  • k-knudsen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1here is a better quality of the movie
    http://www.fbdthemovie.com/trailer.html
  • fjacky66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WOW, i posted that video months ago and got 1 digg.Gratz dude i wish the digg god would suckle from my proverbial teets 1 time.
  • Xemoka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0His website (what he used to use) is located at http://www.thevenusproject.com/

    There is more information on what he sees as the idea world. It's absolutly brilliant in my eyes. But would require so much destruction in order to have it occur..
  • snowwrestler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0At 1:44 there is an existing building composited into the background - the Burj al-Arab Hotel in Dubai.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_al-Arab
  • pinky24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1opps, dig down
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