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Time Travel & The Superorganism: A Movie Idea | Frankly 81

Time Travel & The Superorganism: A Movie Idea | Frankly 81

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(Recorded December 16, 2024)

 

As we wrap up another year of thought-provoking discussions on The Great Simplification, Nate takes us on an imaginative journey in this week’s Frankly - exploring a potential movie script idea that blends systems, science and fiction. What if someone who deeply understood the challenges of today's global economic Superorganism could travel back in time? Armed with the knowledge of our current ecological and economic trajectory, what would they change? What could they change?

Hollywood media could serve as a powerful tool to educate and inspire a wider audience on the systems science of our current predicament. Unpacking his movie idea, Nate shows us how the interventions highlighted - even if sci-fi -  could educate audiences about the complex dynamics which have shaped the issues we now face. Through key character developments, we explore the constraints imposed by the path dependency of the Superorganism, realities about aggregate human behavior, and where degrees of freedom might exist to shift the trajectory of the future - in service of life.

If you could travel back through time to the 1970s (or to any date), how would YOU intervene to shape the future? Could education, regenerative ecology, or “Superorganism-free zones” alter the trajectory of civilization? And more broadly, how might Hollywood still play a role in translating the systems science towards providing agency to the general public?

 

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Ádám Szabó

I would have the protagonist(s) start a bit further into the future, where a break (instead of a bend) obviously happened, travel back in time to 2030ish, do all the preventive measures they can, only to fail and realize that had they started 5ish years earlier (i.e. now) they could've actually prevented the worst outcomes. That would leave me as a viewer with a feeling that what I do today matters and there is no time to waste!

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Time Travel & The Superorganism: A Movie Idea | Frankly 81

Time Travel & The Superorganism: A Movie Idea | Frankly 81