Challenging Reality: Playing at God?

"Playing at God" is the fifth episode of my Challenging Reality TV series. The programme is all about the blurring boundaries between human beings and machines, and the impact of the convergence of technology and humanity on the future of ourselves and wider civilization.

The programme was first shown on Controversial TV (UK Sky Channel 200) on 12th January 2010. For more information, including a full transcript, please visit http://www.ExplainingTheFuture.com/reality or the forums at http://edgemediatv.com/forum

Except where otherwise credited and used with appropriate permissions, all video, audio and music materials in this programme were produced by and are copyright Christopher Barnatt 2009.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• genetic
• engineering
• nanotechnology
• transhumanity
• technology
• humanity
• industrial
• convergence
• artifical
• intelligence
• panopticon
• future
• studies
• Christopher
• Barnatt

[21centimetres]

I really like that he is always pinpointing that humane technology,in order to function,confronts the current capitalistic system.This cohesion makes absolute sense.

Brilliant man...

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@21centimetres I'm so glad somebody gets this too! :-) Look out for my forthcoming video called "Singulairty or Decline?" to be posted on this channel in February 2012.

[xeliosIII]

this is mind blowing, and took half an hour from writing my research paper, but half an hour well spent!

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@xeliosIII Many thanks. Good Luck with the paper! :-)

[TheDantan194]

come on Chris - get the google ads going!! 

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@TheDantan194 As a YouTube partner I've got the Google Ads going! :-)

[WorldCollections]

Define playing god... I fill godlike whenever I turn on my air conditioner...when I turn on lights on any dark place and even when I use my bicycle... Who is to say we haven't been playing at god since the dawn of life on earth??!!

[tenchidbz]

I love your intro music!

[lordjavathe3rd]

It irritates me when people repeat the blind notion that the Internet could become conscious. For the most part, this guy is in every way just a reporter. He clearly is no authority and his predictions are either made by more prominent names or collected from the Internet without judgment for what's good or bad.

[RaiusFly]

MATRIX

[xijnnijx]

I like what he says at the ending. One example of proof is one great thing we did in history, of getting to the moon. We wanted to do this, and we even made it a race and we focused on it greatly there was a lot of money wasted and errors, made because there we didn't set many limits for our selves. If we all WANTED to do some of the things stated in this video, it probably would not be long at all before we could see them achieved, we just have to have the same mindset as we did back then.

[danxiie]

this is gold.

[DevAndRev]

We seem to be handling the troubles of Pandoras box pretty good. That's a kind of technology...