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Establishing shot of study/lab
Pop Quiz! What invention is this historical quote referring to?
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Study
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The radio? TV? Video games? The smartphone?
Wrong. Who guessed the Teddy Bear!?
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Study
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CU jof hologram projector
While it might seem silly to fret over a quote “fuzzy, stupid stuffed animal”, it’s not out of the norm at all.
New inventions are a continual source of fear.
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Hologram
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CU of hologram projector - bike
What about perfectly innocent inventions like bicycles?
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Hologram
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Photos of bikes on wall.
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Bike immersive
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Immersive bike sequence consisting of footage and stills
“The bicycle is the devil’s advance agent morally and physically in thousands of instances.”
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Bike immersive
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CU of hologram projector - car
Wow, bicycles were the work of the devil! Wonder what people thought about the invention of cars?
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Hologram
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CU of study wall showing diagrams and photos of different cars.
“Motoring is one of the most contemptible soul-destroying and devitalizing pursuits.”
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Car immersive
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Full screen of one of the photos which comes to “life”
In England, these “horseless carriages” were limited to going , and were required to be led by someone waving a red flag, to warn bystanders.
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Car immersive
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CU on projector as it cycles through a large variety of objects and ends on a book
Every significant invention caused a moral panic in its time: trains, radio, electricity, TV, internet, smartphones, and, yes, even books. Socrates was not a fan.
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Hologram
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CU of another wall featuring books and photos moving in on a painting of Socrates until it fills the screen.
books will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories
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Books immersive
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CU on projector - ai
So it’s normal and natural to see AI and fear how it might change society.
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Hologram
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Cut to a high tech computer room from the 80s. Lights are blinking and one screens is the focus.
However, if history is any guide we have little hope
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AI immersive
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of accurately predicting anything about its impact.
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AI immersive
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A browser scrolling through a long list of articles dealing with job loss due to ai.
You might say, forget the moral panic, what about jobs?
Shouldn’t we be scared of being replaced by AI?
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Jobs immersive
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CU on projector - knocker upper
Ever heard of the job: Knocker Upper?
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Knocker upper immersive
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Immersive
It’s not what it sounds like.
During the Industrial Revolution, it was someone’s job to go door to door and wake people up.
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CU on projector - knocker upper
So roosters were replaced by Knocker uppers, who were replaced by alarm clocks, which were replaced by cellphones, which will probably eventually be replaced by something else.
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Hologram
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As each voice introduces itself we get its short biog: eg
Joe 7 - Middle-aged Male with American accent.
A voice as lively as a dance party in a data center. Need to narrate a documentary about sloths or rap about rocket science? Spark's got your back with energy to spare. Warning: may cause unexpected outbreaks of interpretive dance.
Many of the voices you’ve heard in this video aren’t people, but AI generated.
Don’t worry, I’m a real human and still have a job.
For now!
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VO immersive
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But Knocker Upper is one job – what does the data say about the overall trends in job loss
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Jobs immersive
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Here’s the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in the United States since 1930.
Despite all the technological advancements of the past century, labor force participation has remained steady, and unemployment hasn’t shot up.
Why?
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Jobs immersive
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List of new jobs - or, tons of images of people working these jobs populate the screen
Technology destroys, but it also creates! Knocker uppers might be out of a job, but there were plenty of new jobs created for designing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing alarm clocks.
Think of all the jobs that didn’t exist just five years ago.
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Jobs immersive
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Split screen
Title: Job Loss
Individual and Society on each half
Individual side
Cross out Knocker Upper and then Voiceover Actor
So, should we be worried about technology?
At the individual level, maybe. Depending on your job, you could be the next knocker upper or voiceover actor.
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Jobs immersive
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Screen freezes and is glitchy
(We hear the narrator turn away from the mic)
Wait what? Seriously?
(Another voice) “Cut”
At the societal level though, the statistics suggest we won’t see mass job displacement.
(AI voice) But could this time be different?
Great question and one we’ll explore in other videos.
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Start on dark room with glowing red eye showing. Light comes on and reveals the teddy
But if history is any guide, the Terminators we fear turn out to be Teddy Bears.
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Kid's bedroom
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