The Future Is Not What It Used to Be

2002 · 52 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 86 VOTES · DIR. Mika Taanila

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Overview

A documentary film about Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941), whose career represents a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers, robotics, science and art.

Dialogue Timeline — 385 lines

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00:00:07 A few years ago a computer was able to simulate a fly's brain
00:02:32 I register everything with manic precision.
00:04:57 Insurance companies were thinking about acquiring computers.
00:08:36 Is computer-generated music competitive -
00:10:18 It cannot do anything without instructions -
00:12:24 We started making music with devices made for other purposes.
00:14:47 It works for the hearing-impaired who cannot experience sound.
00:16:59 as the poIiticaI decisions of this day and age.
00:20:38 and found the theoreticaI physics of the time fauIty and wrong.
00:22:35 The instrument can be compared to a musician I communicate with.
00:25:13 There was aIso a video camera.
00:30:32 Here, it was controIIed by touching -
00:32:34 that man and computers simuIate the history of man and nature:
00:33:59 It's ironic that Nokia, as we know it today -
00:35:30 in which more and more things wiII become computer simuIations.
00:36:59 discover something in nature or a soIution to a math probIem -
00:38:49 I Iike to think that the gIobe wiII turn into a museum pIanet -
00:40:51 we reaIize that we don't have to wait for such technoIogy.
00:42:33 but video is impracticaI in constant use.
00:45:03 On the net. No particuIar pIace.
00:47:01 EvoIution based on naturaI seIection and sexuaI choice -
00:48:47 In other words, as soon as it's technicaIIy possibIe -
00:51:52 Spent the day there.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed385
Dialogue density7.4 lines / min
First line00:00:07
Final line00:51:52

Production Record

DirectorMika Taanila
LanguageFI
IMDb votes86