Yesterday’s Tomorrow Today
Claim This Podcastby Carmichael Centre at The Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work
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<p>Science fiction films unpacked to explore the impact of technology on workers and society today.</p>
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9/30/2022
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December 15, 2022
Minority Report
<p>This week<strong>*</strong>, Duncan and Mark review 2002's Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise along with Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow (a regular on this podcast) and Neal McDonough. This is a film loosely based on Isaac Asimov's short story The Minority Report. Seriously, by loosely we mean that the film's treatment of problems with techno-authoritarianism in the hands of the police competes for screentime with Steven Spielberg's focus on slapstick-comedy action sequences and often the latter wins out. Kind of a metaphor for the post-9/11 world really. But for all its faults, Minority Report shows us a future in which Elon Musk is still the biggest loser ever, hahahaha. In one sentence: Minority Report has aged waaaay faster than its main star Tom Cruise has in the last 20 years (he still looks 40). Seriously, please don't watch it.</p> <p>Yesterday's Tomorrow Today is sponsored by the Carmichael Centre within the Centre for Future Work at The Australia Institute.</p> <p><strong>*A note from your podcasters: </strong>between covid and dogs eating laptops, it's been a challenge to get episodes out regularly the past couple of months. We also lost an episode which may or may not be recovered - hopefully we find it, it's a good one.</p> <p>So this may be the final episode of Season 1 and we're grateful to all our listeners for the support! We've gone truly global (we've got listeners in 4 countries). So we hope we can keep doing more podcasts in 2023. Until then, stay safe, enjoy the holidays and always treat technology as political.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
December 15, 2022
Predator
<p>US military imperialism, meet your biggest threat: a full-scale Soviet invasion force on your Latin-American doorstep. This film also features a highly advanced extra-terrestrial lifeform hunting humans for sport. Only one man, and his crack special forces team of muslce-bound misogynists, can put an end to both.</p> <p>Yesterday's Tomorrow Today is sponsored by the Carmichael Centre within the Centre for Future Work at The Australia Institute.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
November 25, 2022
Wall-E
<p>What happens when your pet dog has a disagreement with your laptop? You can't publish this week's episode last week like you were supposed to!</p> <p>Despite the delay (we're very sorry, comrades), it's Wall-E time! And what perfect timing given recent events - Wall-E depicts an idiotic future that only someone like Elon Musk could genius us into, and which only solidarity can get us out of. I still can't believe Musk bought Twitter just so internet losers would like him. An update for those not keeping tabs: it's gone so bad that it could hilariously mean the end of Musk's various vanity projects (like Mars, Tunnels and Exploding Cars).</p> <p>What you'll learn from this podcast is that Wall-E is the opposite of Elon Musk - funny, cool, and capable of inspiring a revolutionary mindset amongst his fellow worker-bots, proving we can have free frozen yoghurt AND unions.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
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