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Technology (32)

Technological Perspectives (4)

  • The Age of Invention
    The Age of Invention
    Albert Kish 1984 10 min
    This short film serves as a poem-on-film about the coming of the machine age on the eve of World War I. Images and sounds combine to recreate a bygone era of scratchy phonograph records, faded photographs, hand-cranked movie cameras, staccato Morse telegraph messages, and rhythmic steam pumps. Machines of every description were shaping peoples' lives and changing them more rapidly than at any other time in history.
  • Mirrors of Time
    Mirrors of Time
    Jean-Jacques Leduc 1990 23 min
    This short animated film delves into the mysteries of time: how calendars came to be; why the seasons change; why the year is divided into days, etc. From Babylon to 16th-century Europe, this film presents the history of the measurement of time.
  • The Refrigerator
    The Refrigerator
    Sylvain Charbonneau 2001 1 min
    What makes a fridge cool? A clip from the Science Please! collection.
  • Surviving Progress
    Surviving Progress
    Mathieu Roy  &  Harold Crooks 2011 1 h 26 min
    This feature documentary connects the financial collapse, growing inequity and the Wall Street oligarchy with future technology, sustainability, and the fate of civilization itself. Inspired by Ronald Wright's bestseller A Short History of Progress, Surviving Progress digs deep into human nature and patterns of history to challenge and redefine the very idea of progress.

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