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[Narrator] For nearly all of his 86 years,

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architect Jacque Fresco has been
designing cities of the future.

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Fresco's structures all
derive from a simple form

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that fascinated him as a boy.

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[Jacque Fresco] When I was about 12
years old I was looking at a gear

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on a table,
and I saw the 'cities of the future.'

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I think all inventions are based
upon experiences like that.

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I don't think they come out of nowhere.

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[Narrator] Fresco believes that
civilization will be forced

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to colonize the sea,
if land becomes uninhabitable.

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[Fresco] The Earth can only support
so many people, comfortably.

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And if the population exceeds
the capacity of the land,

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we're going to have to move seaward

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and build cities throughout the sea.

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[Narrator] Working from his Florida studio,

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Fresco has spent decades
making detailed drawings

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of his futuristic ocean cities.

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He also builds prototypes,

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experimenting continually with new materials.

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He even lives in one.

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Fresco's even developed plans for
transporting the structures out to sea.

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They'll be constructed
out of modular sections,

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assembled on land by robots,

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and then towed to their
final ocean destinations.

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Other structures will be made from
high-tech materials called memory metal.

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[Fresco] These memory metals
can be distorted, twisted,

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pulled out of shape,

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and then when a certain
temperature is provided,

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that memory metal goes right
back to its original shape.

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[Narrator] So buildings
made from memory metals

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can be compressed into
small cubes for towing,

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and then, snapped back to size upon arrival.

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[Fresco] And almost instantaneously,

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you will see a building
erected before your eyes,

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and no humans working on it at all.

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[Narrator] Fresco's vision
goes beyond architecture.

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He sees his cities as tools for
fostering humanistic values.

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[Fresco] I feel that
environment shapes our values,

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the people we know,
the people we identify with.

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What will drive people in the future?

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A world without war, without hatred,

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without bigotry, without prejudice.

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The future must extend an invitation

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for all people to join in,

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because the problems affect everybody.

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