A 50Y Short Film - Fifty Years News
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We made a short film.
Why did we make a short film? Storytelling is everywhere in tech. Slickly produced videos with A24 quality aesthetics announcing yet another massive round. Carefully crafted narratives designed to make companies feel inevitable. Increasingly, these videos are being used to sell things that just don't matter. Or worse, shouldn't exist. "Prediction markets" that are really just online casinos. AI fake-influencer startups built to deceive people. What civilization really needs are cures for disease, abundant clean energy, new scientific tools, and technologies that genuinely expand human…
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