Future in Films Screening and Discussion

The mind-bending science fiction film Sleep Dealer provides a window into a dystopian future on the U.S.-Mexico border. The desert is parched and water is ruthlessly hoarded by private interests. Drones streak across the desert skies, hunting for dissidents. The border is sealed. In Mexico, workers toil in digital factories where they remotely control robots working in the United States, building skyscrapers and tending to the elderly. Sleep Dealer was awarded both the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and the Alfred P. Sloan prize for the best science or technology film at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.

Join the School for the Future of Innovation and Society for a screening of Sleep Dealer and conversation—and free nachos and drinks—featuring experts on technology and society, risk innovation, immigration, labor, and the past, present, and future of national borders.

RSVP to [email protected] by noon Fri. 11/6

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