Jerry van de Beek

Summer 1988. Dry lightning sparks a fire in the parched and drought ridden landscape of Yellowstone Park igniting a blaze that would scorch over 1.5 Million acres. That winter surviving Fauna exhausted from fire and weakened by hunger die in greater numbers than those claimed by the fire. The cosmos turns from one season to another and another and life in the park begins anew.

Within the coming decades we will be able to create AIs with greater than human intelligence, bio-engineer our species and re-design matter through nanotechnology. How will these technologies change what it means to be human? Director Doug Wolens speaks with leading futurists, computer scientists, artificial intelligence experts, and philosophers who turn over the question like a Rubik’s Cube. Ultimately, if we become more machine-like, and machines more like us, will we sacrifice our humanity to gain something greater? Or will we engineer our own demise? THE SINGULARITY is a comprehensive and insightful documentary film that examines technology’s accelerating rate, and deftly addresses the resulting moral questions.