Past - today = Only a song? In the Year 2525
Here's a music video I cut together with footage from the classic apocalyptic sci-fi film Metropolis, combined with sci-fi folk song In The Year 2525 by Zager & Evans. I really found them fitting together in a dystopian transhumanist meets Aldous Huxley's Brave New World kind of way. What awaits humanity after the intense technological and biological developments set in motion? If we ever get there?
Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA&feature=emb_err_woyt
Makers of Sophia the robot plan mass rollout amid pandemic
By Michelle Hennessy
JANUARY 24, 2021
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Social robots like me can take care of the sick or elderly, Sophia says as she conducts a tour of her lab in Hong Kong. I can help communicate, give therapy and provide social stimulation, even in difficult situations.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-robot-idUSKBN29U03X