The Second Modern Times

Presentation

The Second Modern Times is an audio-visual production that aims to describe and interpret the reality of the current world taking the following affirmation as a starting point:

 

We are the involuntary and accidental protagonists of a singular moment of the human adventure, a time of deep changes that justify the proposal to inaugurate a new stage in the chronology of the history: the Second Modern Times.

 

The production is constructed as a series of six 55-minute documentary films in which we develope the previous affirmation and we analyze the main transformations that characterize the new period.
They are the following ones :

 

Chapter 1: A Singular Time


The singularity of the moment is justified by the evolution of the human capacities of communication: appearance of the language, writing, printing press, mass media and today network communications.

 

Chapter 2: The Ignorance Society


We analyze the effect of new forms of communication in our way of life. Are we going towards a knowledge society or rather towards the Ignorance Society?

 

Chapter 3: The Exponential Function


The dynamics of our time is characterized by exponential growth, from annual production of soybean to the quantity of accumulated information. Does limit exist? Where is it.

 

Chapter 4: About Human Nature


In the new age our power will be able to modify our own nature. Life expectancy grows continuously, million of people control their feelings by drugs and shortly we will be able to manipulate our genes or to live in almost perfect virtual worlds. Being a human being will be a different thing

 

Chapter 5: The Unexpected Vitality of Religion


In spite of living in a technological and scientific world, religion has come to our days in a good form. Now we know that religion has biological bases and maybe it will be always with us.

 

Chapter 6: The Great Challenge


The previous chapters have raised more questions than answers. The uncertainty characterizes the beginning of the Second Modern Age. And from uncertainties to challenges there is only a small step.

 

 

 

Each chapter constitutes an independent unit. The structure is sustained on interviews to relevant experts in every field, in dialog with a narrator which connects the ideas and provides continuity. Also it will include some histories, fictitious or not, that help to illustrate some aspects of the story and to provide proximity to the spectator.