Title The future of work and death / Gadfly Productions presents in association with Serious Wonder ; produced by Sean Blacknell & Wayne Walsh ; directed by Sean Blacknell & Wayne Walsh ; written by Sean Blacknell & Wayne Walsh

Published First Run Features, 2015 [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): .flv file, sound Contents Introduction -- Part I: Work -- Automate or perish -- Being human -- Our relationship with work -- Part II: Death -- The singularity is near -- Denial of death -- Anti-aging research Summary 'What is humanity?' In this revealing documentary, world experts in the fields of Futurology, Anthropology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy consider the impact of technological advances on the two certainties of human life; Work and Death. Charting human developments from Homo Habilis, past the Industrial Revolution, to the digital age and beyond, THE FUTURE OF WORK AND DEATH looks at the shocking exponential rate at which mankind has managed to create technologies to ease the process of living. As we embark on the next phase of our adaptation, with automation and Artificial Intelligence signifying the complete move from man to machine, this film asks what the implications are for the human purposeful fulfilment, making money and ageless immortality. In its combination of archival footage, infographics and interviews, directors Sean Blacknell and Wayne Walsh's debut feature gives us a provoking and shockingly realistic look into the future of human life. With commentary from author Will Self, futurist Techno-Philosopher Gray Scott, and biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, among a host of other knowledgeable but endearingly eccentric experts in their fields, the information presented and arguments made are profoundly insightful, often astonishing and always engaging A provocative documentary, where worldwide experts in the fields of futurology, anthropology, neuroscience and philosophy consider the impact of technological advances on the two certainties of human life: work and death Notes Title from title frames Film Originally released as a documentary film in 2016 Credits Editor, Wayne Walsh ; music, Sean Blackwell ; cinematographers, Sean Blackwell, Dan McPake, Ed Troth, Wayne Walsh, Martin Warrilow Performer Aubrey de Grey, Dudley Sutton, Rudy Tanzi, Vivek Wadhwa, Will Self Narrator, Dudley Sutton ; interviewees, Will Self, John Harris, Martin Ford, Steve Fuller, Gray Scott, Ian Pearson, Peter Cochrane, Murray Shanahan, Stuart Armstrong, Zoltan Istvan, Joanna Cook, Aubrey de Grey, Rudolph Tanzi, David Pearce, Vivek Wadhwa, Isaac Asimov, Riva Melissa Tez Event Originally produced by First Run Features in 2015 Notes In English In English; with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing imapired (SDH) Subject Technology -- Social aspects. Technological innovations -- Social aspects Technology and civilization. Forecasting. Technology. Science. Sociology. Documentary films. computer science. data processing. sciences (philosophy) sociology. science (modern discipline) Technology Sociology Science Philosophy and religion Computer science Documentary films Electronic data processing Forecasting Technological innovations -- Social aspects Technology and civilization Technology -- Social aspects Genre/Form documentary film. Documentary films Nonfiction films Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Documentaires. Films autres que de fiction. Form Streaming video Author de Grey, Aubrey, actor Wadhwa, Vivek, actor Blacknell, Sean, film producer, film director, screenwriter, director of photography Walsh, Wayne, film producer, film director, screenwriter, editor of moving image work, director of photography Sutton, Dudley, 1933-2018, narrator. Self, Will, interviewee (expression) Scott, Gray, interviewee (expression) Istvan, Zoltan, 1973- interviewee (expression) Cook, Joanna, 1978- interviewee (expression) Tez, Riva-Melissa, interviewee (expression) Tanzi, Rudolph E., interviewee (expression) Kanopy (Firm) Gadfly Productions, production company. Serious Wonder (Firm), production company First-Run Features (Firm), publisher.

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