Turning into Gods - teaser.mp4

Original video: http://vimeo.com/10939144

"First we build the tools, then they build us"
- Marshall McLuhan

TURNING INTO GODS is a new feature length documentary exploring mankind's journey to 'play jazz with the universe'... it is a story of our ultimate potential, the reach of our intelligence, the scope of our scientific and engineering abilities and the transcendent quality of our heroic and noble calling.

Thinking, feeling, striving, man is what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called "the ascending arrow of the great biological synthesis."... today we walk a tight-rope between ape and Nietzsche's Overman... how will we make it through, and what is the texture and color of our next refined and designed evolutionary leap?

"Design is becoming immanent to being," says the website Next Nature.. Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, and Artificial Intelligence will allow us to become what philosopher David Pearce calls: 'Paradise Engineers'

Tomorrow, collaboration between biologists, electrical engineers and designers, a hitherto inconceivable proposition, will be something we take for granted.

Featuring interviews with the world's most interesting minds, these luminaries will paint for us a picture of the world beyond the looking glass. The world we are creating.

"We are as gods," says Stewart Brand, "and we might as well get good at it."
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Film Concept by Jason Silva
Concept teaser edited by Jason Silva and Sean Puglisi

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[mehigh2marsiansky]

who is he, on the B&W footage about the potential energy inside one`s head, first seen at 0:54. ? thx

[FutureChronicles]

@mehigh2marsiansky Dr. Timothy Leary of 1960's (LSD)

[hmspinaforethisisspa]

anybody know when this is coming out??

[gbCerberus37]

@muslimah871 Satan doesn't exist.

[mortald]

Unsold on the idea. Sorry. Time to get over your fear of the dark.

World's already beyond carrying capacity at 7 billion. Also can't imagine a fulfilling 10 years under the tutelage of Timothy Leary, much less a couple hundred.

[tangerine714]

I don't know why anyone would be against finding a cure for aging, we be far from the generation to kill death...it would still come in many ways. But imagine all the craftsmen, scientists, etc returned to the peak of their physical condition and mental elasticity! Then the endless refinement on those skills, the achievements of the first millennials will be astounding! And death is a quick end in an adventure of choice not a stalker that drags you away slowly bit by bit!

[GnosisMan50]

would be nice if we put our house in order first, you know like getting rid of the monetary system, the inept political process and our endless wars just to name a few....

[keith3d]

I'd like to hear the entire argument at 0:54 -- for it seems to me that denying that the contrast of death gives life its meaning and value is based entirely off of fear. They just want to be plugged into machines and never experience any form of pain or discomfort for the rest of eternity, because that would be such a satisfying and fulfilling life...

"They shout about love but when push comes to shove, they live for things they're afraid of."

[Keim4ever]

@EACH0NETEACH0NE I've read his book he wrote with Terry Grossman about life extension. And I'm beginning to read the Singularity is Near. I just think that radical conspiracy therorists give him a hard time with their eugenics and working for the ellite crap, I honestly think what he is doing is for the good of man kind.

[EACH0NETEACH0NE]

there is something very creepy about ray krazwiel perhaps it's the fact he was employed by the department of defense .. Not someone I would trust with my soul..

[vachief]

......"they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise....they became fools..." Romans 1: 21-22

[KazemaruYukawaBacon]

@FutureChronicles I agree... LSD! Not that i ever tried...but this is how all the psychadelic's seem to express reality! Conversations that has survived the hippie era/

[cynicalnihilist]

Timothy Leary's dead. No, no, no, he's outside looking in