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Is Technology Taking Away What Makes Us Human?
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Is Technology Taking Away What Makes Us Human?

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A Spark production asks what humanity looks like by 2077, framing today's technology as something ancestors would call magic. The film moves through the arc of invention, from the wheel and steam power to electricity, the internet, spaceflight, and synthetic biology, then turns to Artificial Super Intelligence as the next and possibly final leap. Scientists and futurists lay out two competing endpoints: a species augmented into something godlike, or a collapse triggered by the same tools meant to save us. The film uses this tension to examine why civilization never seems satisfied with what it has already achieved, tracing that restlessness back through each technological milestone. Archival footage of past breakthroughs sits alongside speculative visions of engineered futures, with interview segments unpacking the risks of ceding more decisions and capabilities to machines. It stays in the realm of informed speculation rather than hard prediction, using the history of human invention as evidence for how far the next transition might go.