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Humans, Gods and Technology
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Humans, Gods and Technology

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Silicon Valley's biggest technology companies talk about their work in strikingly religious terms: connecting all of humanity, defeating death, building minds greater than our own. This VPRO Backlight film asks what happens when engineers start speaking like prophets. Philosophers, historians, and critics of the tech industry walk through the ideas driving Google, Facebook, and the transhumanist movement, from data as the new raw material of power to the dream of uploading consciousness and outrunning mortality itself. Archival talks and conference footage show entrepreneurs pitching immortality and artificial general intelligence with the confidence of scripture, while the film's interviewees push back, asking who benefits when a handful of companies control the infrastructure of thought and memory. The argument builds toward dataism, the idea that everything, including human experience, can be reduced to information to be processed and optimized. It is a portrait of an ideology quietly replacing older belief systems, told through the people building it and the thinkers warning about what gets lost along the way.