| The Future of Work and Death | |
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| Directed by | Sean Blacknell & Wayne Walsh |
| Written by | Sean Blacknell & Wayne Walsh |
| Produced by | Sean Blacknell & Wayne Walsh |
| Narrated by | Dudley Sutton |
| Edited by | Wayne Walsh |
| Music by | Sean Blacknell |
Production company | Gadfly Productions |
| Distributed by | First Run FeaturesJourneyman Pictures |
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Running time | 88 mins |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
The Future of Work and Death is a 2016 documentary by Sean Blacknell and Wayne Walsh about the exponential growth of technology.
The film showed at several film festivals includingRaindance Film Festival,International Film Festival Rotterdam,Academia Film Olomouc andCPH:DOX.[1][2][3]
In May 2017 it received an official screening at theEuropean Commission.[4] It was distributed byFirst Run Features andJourneyman Pictures and was released on iTunes, Amazon Prime and On-demand on 9 May 2017.[5] The film was made available onSundance Now on 27 November 2017.[6] A companion piece to the film,The Cost of Living, a documentary concerninguniversal basic income in Britain, was released on Amazon Prime on 8 October 2020.[7][8]
World experts in the fields of futurology, anthropology, neuroscience, and philosophy consider the impact of technological advances on the two 'certainties' of human life; work and death. Charting human developments fromHomo habilis, past the Industrial Revolution, to the digital age and beyond, the film looks at the shocking exponential rate at which mankind has managed to create technologies to ease the process of living.
As we embark on the next phase of our adaptation, withautomation and artificial intelligence signifying the complete move from man to machine, the film asks what the implications are for human fulfilment in an approaching era ofjob obsolescence and extreme longevity.