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Technocalyps (2006)
Probably a non-precise version of things that may come.... flawed but insightful...
If you step back and widen your lens as far as your imagination can stretch, you can find reason in the arguments that Theys is providing. Human interconnectedness via social networks, human bodies being augmented via surgery for the greater good, the XY generation of sex selection in certain countries such as India and China... you could go on and on, and Theys does just that and builds up a fine argument. I could see how some could see this as a skewed perspective. The rhetoric is strongly against technology as a controlling force and soon to be the dominating force. Didn't Wall-E already cover this ground in a nicer version and nobody seemed to complain. Adam Curtis added more rational to the debate in his series Machines of Loving Grace. Society is interconnected into the technologyworld to such a degree that we cant perceive life without it and continue to acknowledge it makes life better for us. So why stop, why not let technology continue to make that life better. You can debate and say that the facts are wrong and that the views are biased but i have a feeling that those who watched this and saw some resonance in it will think in 20-30 years time (after getting a new fake heart and hip), that movie did warn us... its a kinda "Told you so" moment!!!. this is all contained in the first two sections... the third one goes a bit off the wall...
There are enough people who are progressive scientists who wish not to look back and only to the future in the hope that reason and rational will eventually bring that answer that faiths and religions. Theys tries to bring this perspective that we will find our own answers in the final part of the section but does so in a weak vague way. Any proper theologists would refute his position as being as narrow as any atheistic view out there. there was no debate or perspective from those from faith formations to see how they view this aspect.
All in all, the arguments are thrown out there for you to consider. What Theys intended with this piece is to make people talk. Its not a vision of the future, its just a debate on how it may go unless we question some of these fundamental issues that surround our life. How can we question a mechanism and system that moves so fast, faster than our answers of human reason to find a place in the public, well thats another question....