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• 19 min
• Kinolab
• 1954

Once ships start mysteriously disappearing off the coast of Odo Island in post-WWII Japan, both scientists and villagers are confounded. Eventually, the culprit of these attacks is revealed to be Godzilla, a massive kaiju thought to be from the Jurassic era who has returned from the deep sea in order to wreak havoc and destruction on humanity. Scientists explain to government officials their theory that Hydrogen-bomb testing in the deep sea disrupted Godzilla’s natural habitat and provoked the attacks on Odo island. After debates over whether Godzilla should be killed or studied for contributions to science, the monster attacks Tokyo with flame breath. Emiko and Ogata implore Serizawa to deploy his new Oxygen Destroyer technology against this monster. This lethal device suffocates any living things before splitting oxygen molecules and liquefying anything organic in the range. While the technologies on display here are not necessarily digital in nature, this narrative nonetheless provides a non-American voice on the dangers of technology and innovation, especially as they are deployed in wars.

• Global Impact of Technology
• Scientific Innovation

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• 14 min
• Kinolab
• 2008

After his family home is destroyed and his father is killed, Memo must become a part of the global economy. He is expected to do this at the Sleep Dealer Factory, where citizens of Mexico who are implanted with “nodes” connect to a brain-computer interface which they use to remotely control robots in the United States. This was meant to be a solution to the “migrant problem” to the United States in this imagined future, allowing the United States to contract labor from immigrants without actually having people cross the border. However, the wages payed by the Sleep Dealers for the exhaustive labor are incredibly low, thus most laborers there live in unlivable conditions. The technology is shown to not only be exhausting due to the menial labor, but also dangerous if someone is connected during a short-circuit.

• Technology Based Economic Disruption
• Digital Divides and Inequality
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Robots

• 
• 7 min
• Kinolab
• 2008

Under threat of eviction, Luz must find a quick way to make some money to pay rent. Thankfully, through the company TruNode, she can digitize her memories and sell them on the internet for anyone who may wish to access and stream them. While this seems convenient, the downsides are shown when the repository of her memories are used to help ruthless drone pilot Rudy Ramirez hunt down an innocent laborer who is a supposedly dangerous criminal. After Luz reveals this means of making money to Memo, the aforementioned innocent laborer, he is less than enthused with the system.

• Data Privacy
• Civil Surveillance
• Technology Based Economic Disruption
• Data Mining
• Brain-Computer Interfaces

• 
• 5 min
• Kinolab
• 2008

Memo lives in a small Mexican rural village with his father. This narrative reveals that access to water in the area surrounding their village is limited; one company oversees a watering hole where people pay to replenish their supply. This business, Del Rio Water Company, builds dams and other means of controlling the water supply, and uses drones to protect these against suspected aqua-terrorists who might seek to take back control of it.

• Civil Surveillance
• Technology Based Environmental Impact
• Data Streaming
• Drones

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• 16 min
• Kinolab
• 2004

Joel Barish recently broke up with Clementine, his girlfriend of two years, in a brutal argument. After discovering that she has used a procedure known as Lacuna to erase him from her memories, Joel decides to undergo the same procedure to forget that he ever knew Clementine. The procedure uses a brain-computer interface to map the areas of Joel’s brain that are active whenever he has a memory of Clementine, first when he is awake and using associated objects to perform active recall and then when he is asleep and subconsciously remembering her. Despite Joel’s eventual regrets and desperate attempts to remember Clementine, the procedure is successful, and he forgets her. However, Joel and Clementine reunite in the real world after their respective procedures, and as they have a fresh start, they end up listening to Clementine’s tape from before the procedure where she dissects all of the flaws of Joel and their relationship.

• Digital Censorship
• Edited Humans
• Computer Vision
• Brain-Computer Interfaces

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• 11 min
• Kinolab
• 2017

Rick Deckard was a former “Blade Runner,” or specialized police officer who would track down and kill humanoid robots, or “replicants,” which were meant to be submissive laborers in space colonies. K is one such of these robots, working in the same business. After finding out that Deckard had a relationship and child with Rachael, one of the first ever robots with the capability to mirror organic human reproduction, K tracks him down in an attempt to find the child. Deckard reveals that he was estranged from the child, abandoning them in an act of love to avoid trackers from finding them. Eventually, K deduces the identity of the child, and takes Deckard to meet her.

• AI Emotions and Rights
• Singularity
• Robots