A Love Letter to Ourselves in the Future
A documentary film about Homo sapiens at the precipice of the great transition
There will come a time—perhaps only two or three decades into the future—when the kind of life we live today will be gone forever. Whether they are the same species as us or not, the AI-enhanced humanoids of tomorrow will look back on this present moment in history with a mix of curiosity, shock, and perhaps longing.
The objective of this film is to give them what they’re looking for: an unflinching glimpse into the odd behavior and deteriorating yet still viable habitat of Homo sapiens at the precipice of a new era of life on planet earth.
A time capsule, if you will.
But it’s not only for them.
There will also come a time when we, ourselves, will look back on this era with nostalgia or maybe shame and also amusement and awe. At things like single-use plastic, the existence of wild leopards, humans driving cars, an abundance of seafood, the addiction to smart phones and selfies, gas stations, jobs like writing, rainforests.
Then there will be things about today that are still a thing tomorrow. Like parks, dancing, rioting, maybe surfing, hopefully cherry blossoms and kissing. But they’ll be done differently.
In any event, we’re going to document as much of it as we can. And maybe, some day in the near or distant future, it will amuse people. Or computers. Or it will merely exist as a digital file collecting dust in a depopulated planet. Who knows. All we have is the present moment. The strange and wondrous year of 2023.