research echoes a school science project. He says "We will have not waste, all things that used to be waste will become useful"...How exactly? Our absolute priority will be the conservation of energy as we use all our non-renewable sources. It almost feels like cheating to talk of a perfectly balanced future (which we all anticipate as perfection) with self important revelation! Tell me how, design something that works. While he is clearly a very clever man, I was disappointed when he claims at the beginning of the film that the film 'Metropolis' inspired his distaste for a machine like future. The rest of the documentary unveiled his vision as exactly that- an impersonal machine. For balance to be perfect in our society we need peaks and troughs; these don't have to be the clichd 'global financial stability' and an 'all loving society' and 'religious communism'. Bleurgh- his values are skewed; it's uncomfortable. Society and mankind's happiness relies so heavily on the mystique of life and beauty found in both nature and man made wonder. Fresco's future greedily hurries towards the conclusion of a budget sci-fi film set and echoes the film 'Equilibrium'. The understanding of the far future must be considered laterally. His ideas are not new. Jet propulsions on an aircraft are not a true evolution. Rant over who_me_yeah_you Glad you recognized it as a rant. When Da Vinci drew plans for Helicopters etc he did not have the wherewithall to conceive of a combustion engine but his