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“I just had hoped this time it would turn out differently”
In the age of tech giants, parasocial relationships, and AI over people, we have to sit back and wonder, “we have seen this story unfold before. Why does it never seem to end differently?” Time and time again, we make the same ethical quandaries with science and technology. From Frankenstein’s Monster to Oppenheimer, we have already explored divorcing ethics from technology and watching as inventors reckon with the consequences of their creations.
But despite knowing how the story ends, we keep following their paths, lockstep.
Dolly the Sheep is often the first time kids learn about the importance of ethical science. Before this point in your education, science, math, and technology are treated as rigid disciplines with right answers and wrong answers. Black and white, no shades of grey. Dolly, however, teaches us that science is grey, and humans’ meddling with the nature of the universe has consequences. When we try to play god, there is no right answer.
when i dreamed of electric sheep is an uncanny, comical exploration of the ridiculousness of continuing to try to change a story that has already been written.
Directed by Diana Kim (USA)