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2030: Beyond the Film - Continuing Discussion About Our Future
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In "2030: Beyond the Film" Director Johnny Boston discusses the futurist FM-2030, the Coronavirus Pandemic, and a range of urgent issues in the medical, philosophical, longevity & futurist space with Transhumanists, philosophers, researchers, authors & more.
When We Can Live Forever: Should We?
2030, the feature film, is named for the extraordinarily prescient futurist FM-2030, who has been cryonically suspended since his untimely death in 2000. He challenged the world to embrace a technology driven leap towards non-biological bodies and an end to aging and death. FM believed that one of the main barriers to those goals was our collective reluctance to pursue those goals openly.
30 years after his body ceased to function, breakthroughs in neuroscience, genetics, life extension, artificial intelligence, robotics and other fields are blurring the lines between reality and the world that FM envisioned.
FM was filmmaker Johnny Boston’s real life dear friend. In 2030, Johnny interviews world acclaimed experts from a range of scientific and technological disciplines, uncovering the most pressing ethical and existential challenges we will confront in the coming decades. As the future FM envisioned draws near, 2030, the film explores what may lie just around the next bend.
Are You Ready?
A Nostalgia for the Future
One of FM-2030's most enduring quips was "I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future." FM was able to feel nostalgic for the future in part because he had imagined it in such detail:
When We Can Live Forever: Should We?
We may need to answer that question sooner than you'd expect...
Breakthroughs are being made every day in the fields of cancer research, artificial organs, intelligent prosthetics, organ preservation, genetic engineering, and other fields. Perhaps most strikingly, mainstream organizations are now flirting with declaring a war on aging itself.
Multi-Track: The stories put on pause when FM-2030 entered Cryonic Suspension
An Optimistic Light
When 2030 filmmaker Johnny Boston first met FM-2030 (then F.M. Esfandiary) Johnny was only ten years old. FM provided a supportive, stabilizing and optimistic hand as Johnny set out on his own path.
An Unusual Couple
When Flora Schnall, first met F.M. Esfandiary he was still known as a kafkaesque Iranian novelist. Their long romance paired a pioneering lawyer - one of the first women to break the glass ceilings of the existing world - with a radical futurist who envisioned the hierarchies of the present completely giving way to new values and new ways of life.
The World's First Superhero: An Origin Story
FM-2030 envisioned humans becoming posthuman, beings made of entirely replaceable bodies, with abilities well beyond that granted by our biology and DNA.
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Films Chronicling Compelling Visions of the Future
"I really believe that we will have an amazing world in the future. And technology is an integral part of it, as is humanity. Because either by itself is incomplete in today’s world."
Amit Singhal
“Today, you have a trend that is fully embracing individualism, and individual freedom, and I at the center of the universe. And you have a whole other strand that is going back in full force to ultimate rootedness. And the eradication of the I. And they are both extremisms.”
Esther Perel
"I would have loved to have been the first person on the moon, I would have gratefully gotten on that rocket knowing that there was a good chance that it would blow up. Because that is adventure. And that’s nothing compared to what we’re talking about."
Kenneth Hayworth
2030 : Launched 02/25/2020
"Plans such as I have outlined are sometimes called Futurist. But this is a misleading designation. Futurism evokes a sense of elusiveness as though the breakthroughs were always in the future, forever beyond reach. But the future is not beyond reach. The future has arrived. The future is Now. "
• FM-2030 / Optimism One