The 'dangerous' promise of a techno-utopian future

Jesse Eisenberg says community theater saved his life. Without it, we might not know him as Mark Zuckerberg and the social network. We might not have the zombie land as we know it now. But even Jesse Eisenberg knows that a lot of people just don't get musical theater. Musical theater is inherently very silly.

There's something so ridiculously earnest about it. On Cue with Tom Power, Jesse talks about his new film The Debut, starring Julianne Moore as a shy housewife-turned actor, and Paul Giamatti as a theater director who pushes her to her limits and beyond. Hear that conversation now on Cue with me, Tom Power. This is a CBC podcast. Welcome to Ideas.

I'm Nala Ayed. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? So we become post-human, then we spread into space, colonize the universe, and create this sprawling multi-galactic civilization where there are trillions and trillions of super happy people who basically live forever. It's the techno-utopia of the far future and is just beyond our grasp. The leap to this wondrous existence, this vast and glorious future among the stars, will only be possible with the creation of superintelligence.

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