Natural Connection

 




This is an experimental short that explores...digital DNA, natural selection, and other questions.




What is the fundamental relationship between our computer code and our genetic code?


If technology extends our minds, what does it amputate?


Does the umbilical cord hardwire our desire to be wired?


Where does the brain end and the mind begin?


Is the next evolutionary step to connect our minds through a network?


What are the consequences and benefits of distributing intelligence over a network from one to many?


Why do we initially struggle so much with new technologies and then so quickly become unable to imagine life without them?


When will we learn the importance of both connection and disconnection?


Why do we need to think of technology as separate from us, separate from nature? Aren’t silicon chips made from sand?


Is technology nature?


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Directed, co-edited by Tiffany Shlain (2001)


5 mins


Premiered at the San Francisco Opera House for the 2001 Webby Awards