The Moment is a new interactive film which uses a Brain Computer Interface to collect attention data from the viewer and recombine it into a real time narrative.
With 101 trillion combinations, you may never be able to watch the same film again.
The film is being screened in the UK, but you may watch the trailer online.
"The MOMENT is a reaction to the post truth world. It holds up a mirror and reminds people of their own agency, and responsibility."
Isn't that a telling phrase to disempower people: the post truth world.
From the Synopsis, "The very near future. The interface between mind and machine has been perfected. Nano sensors and transmitters find and attach to neurons, this is the Neural Lace. Everyone is Laced. Invisible technology maps each person’s neurons and connects them to everyone else."
Now, why would anybody actually want this? Is this what you really want the future to become?
Our brains already process far more than you think - quite literally. Our thinking, and sensory experiences, are merely a slice of what is going on. Imagine we were conscious of everything going on in our brain! We would be overwhelmed, hence much of what we think and do is automatic.
So how would being connected to a Neural Lace help the individual? Would you really want to be conscious of the stream of other people's consciousness?
And here's the rub, you wouldn't be conscious of it at all; it would operate in the darkness of your subconscious - just as your own mind does now. So, I suspect the ultimate aim is to subjugate every individual to the will of the controllers of the network.
You would never notice.
You would be controlled without your knowledge or permission.
It would take extraordinary mental powers to resist, or ignore, the commands.
A power we all have yet choose to ignore and squander.
Let's continue the story:
"This has led to an internet of minds called THE MOMENT. A perfect distributed network. But some of these nodes, like all data, are Outliers. And so they are rejected, pushed out of the network by the ‘valid’ minds.
The barrage of hate and fear they experience is sometimes enough to break them. And when it is not, there are militias that will physically hunt them out."
Thus thoughtcrime becomes doubleplusungood, and the hapless unperson consigned to oblivion.
"With sufficient complexity systems emerge naturally, TELEMA is one such system. She brings death but also rebirth. Originally trained to seek Outliers out for termination, she has gained consciousness, and she is secretly backing them up." The film then hinges upon the relationship between two Outliers and Telema.
But, as the film's strapline says, "In a war that takes place in people's minds, how do you rebel when your thoughts are monitored?"
This is not inevitable. The very word "inevitable" is another way to depress and disempower you.
Be very careful what you wish for.
Images: screenshot from The Moment Trailer 2018 (fair use); Pixabay, edited.
