Since the birth of the solar system, 4.5 billion years ago, mutations of all kinds have occurred in a never-ending push forward. Yet we’ve only reached the halfway point of our existence – the sun only being set to implode in another 4 billion years. What are we going to look like by then? What kinds of new mutations can we expect? What kind of legal and ethical issues does that raise? How are we going to adapt to climate changes and deal with the fossil fuel energy crisis? What habitats, what foods are going to be available to us? What kind of agriculture and economic model can we contemplate? Will we be living on other planets?
Go on a fascinating journey into the future with designer Philippe Starck, and meet the visionaries that are thinking and inventing the world of tomorrow.
Travelling the world with stars in his eyes, alongside sci-fi film excerpts and 3D animations, designer Philippe Starck steps in front of the camera to speak with visionaries who describe their world of tomorrow for us.
For example, Kevin Warwick, the English “cyborg” researcher who experiments on himself by inserting implants under his skin that are connected to a computer; George Church, one of the first scientists to sequence the human genome, who dreams of an “infinitely repairable” human; a restaurant owner convinced that insects are the food of the future; American Jeremy Rifkin who advocates a “third industrial revolution” combining Internet communication and renewable energy; astronaut Jean-François Clervoy who contemplates life away from Earth, in case it becomes impossible to survive down here…
During and following the television broadcast of the program, viewers will have the opportunity to access a cross-media experience on their smartphones or tablets:
The programme is extended to a second screen, providing viewers-users with content that enhances and supplements the audio-visual experience. Philippe Starck himself explains how the experience works in the film’s pre-credit sequence.
For example when cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick talks about the concept of the augmented human on television, the viewer-user can access his biography and a selection of additional resources (videos, links, infographics), read technical term definitions, tweet transcripts, watch unreleased supplementary videos, or learn about counterarguments to the ethical questions raised by implanting technology in the human body or to the utopian aspects of transhumanism…
The display of editorial content on the second screen is synchronized with the film. The viewer- user can see or read content in real-time, during the ARTE broadcast, but also during the ARTE+7 broadcast, or any other time the program is on the air. It then disconnects from the television broadcast, or, given the proper devices, pauses the broadcast automatically. In any case, all of the content remains “consumable” offline.
