Thought provoking!
I saw this film at a private screening in Los Angeles and have not been able to stop thinking about it!
That implanted technology in someone's brain can meaningfully change their sense of self, capabilities and motivations was something I considered to be the domain of science fiction. The characters in the movie demonstrate that it is happening now, and hundreds of thousands of people have these implants. This was shocking to me!
I Am Human changed my thinking about the future, including what it means to be human, potential decisions my loved ones and I may need to make if we face a neurodegenerative disease, and more broadly, the implications of this technology as it becomes more mainstream (i.e. improving human ability).
The movie is scientifically credible and sober, laudably avoiding hype which would have been easy to include but at the cost of believability with such a consequential topic. There are also moments of lightheartedness and humor in the film, which helped as I tried to get my head around such big and complicated ideas.
In time, I Am Human will probably be looked back upon as the marker of when a new era was beginning to take shape, but was still invisible to most, helping seed the new and thorny questions that we will all have to grapple with.
That implanted technology in someone's brain can meaningfully change their sense of self, capabilities and motivations was something I considered to be the domain of science fiction. The characters in the movie demonstrate that it is happening now, and hundreds of thousands of people have these implants. This was shocking to me!
I Am Human changed my thinking about the future, including what it means to be human, potential decisions my loved ones and I may need to make if we face a neurodegenerative disease, and more broadly, the implications of this technology as it becomes more mainstream (i.e. improving human ability).
The movie is scientifically credible and sober, laudably avoiding hype which would have been easy to include but at the cost of believability with such a consequential topic. There are also moments of lightheartedness and humor in the film, which helped as I tried to get my head around such big and complicated ideas.
In time, I Am Human will probably be looked back upon as the marker of when a new era was beginning to take shape, but was still invisible to most, helping seed the new and thorny questions that we will all have to grapple with.
- anders_p
- Mar 3, 2020