Bits, Atoms, Neurons & Genes a cyberdocumentary on converging technologies
* 73 minutes * 2005-2008 from idea to edition
2026: watching the film from inside its central hypothesis. The convergence of technologies: to describe mind, life and the world as informational machines, then to become "as masters and possessors" of those machines. AI, health data, connected objects and surveillance systems now give this hypothesis an everyday presence.
The action takes place on the screen of a computer connected to the network. A navigation through cyberspace reveals what nanotechnologies cover as a program.
From link to link, site to site, download to download, the film uncovers the history of these emerging technologies, the visions and dreams from which they arise and which they generate. The questions are not new: our relation to technology, development and progress. But in front of the announced technological revolution, they become urgent.
This is therefore not a scientific or technical documentary illustrating current research. It is a reflective film on emerging technologies, a critical yet rational questioning of scientific activity and technological development from an anthropological point of view.
"Science does not think," wrote Heidegger. He added that philosophy does not think either. "Not yet." But science dreams; and that is what this film is about.