Almost Human

Notes on the human condition by 10 scientists and a robot

The filmmaker Jeppe Rønde has invited 10 of the world's foremost researchers - and a robot! - to rethink our relationship with technology and its dilemmas from the outside. Philosophers, anthropologists, archaeologists and programmers show us through their thought experiments that our relationship with technology is just as much about our relationship with ourselves.

2019

1h 31min

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Stephen Fry
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Hiroshi Ishiguro
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Jeffrey S. Hangst
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Kirsten Hastrup
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Rubina Raja
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Vincent F. Hendricks
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Jens-Christian Svenning
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Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo
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Jacob Friis Sherson
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Johanna Seibt
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Andreas Roepstorff
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