Interview with filmmaker Maxim Pozdorøvkin about his new HBO documentary “The Truth About Killer Robots”
The Truth about Killer Robots” considers the ethical dimension of using robots in our everyday life, as well as side effects from doing so in this technological age.
“The Truth about Killer Robots” talks about employment displacement, mentioning a case at Rapoo, where 3,200 workers dropped down to 800, with several earnings losses. How much is our economy going to suffer (or benefit) as automation becomes more popular and makes companies more efficient?
I wanted to make a labor panorama, make a movie about structural economics that wouldn’t feel like you are getting homework. So to use the guise of this sci-fi premise, which is traditionally how these kinds of stories are presented — as freak accidents. For me it was a combination of Studs Terkel meets true crime.
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
