After 3 years of attempting to have a kid, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider and his other half Alexandra attempted IVF and right away conceived, with triplets. In grappling with this life-altering experience, it appeared that technology was having a genuine effect on Avi’s life; his children were conceived by means of a technical process, born in a modern neo-natal intensive care system and kept alive inside a series of makers. In other words, Avi’s children came into this world and were made feasible thanks to technology. However beyond that, the way in which Avi found himself connecting to his newborn kids, even this was colored by a relationship to technology. Therefore, much bigger concerns, ones hard to even create, loomed big as the triplets got back. In seeking to clarify these questions, and deal with his brand-new and difficult reality, the filmmaker engages futurists, scientists, scholars, anti-technology supporters and even Ted Kaczynski, aka the ‘Unabomber,’ to discover a big-picture view of our ongoing relationship to technology. These interviews explore problems like: What is the origin of innovation? Is innovation ‘neutral’ or does is have an ‘intent?’ In a world of high technology, what is the worth of living things? Linked with these interviews are 2 stories that check out how technology is literally changing our worldviews and physical reach. In one, the audience gets up near to United States Army pilots training to from another location command unmanned aerial automobiles – ‘drones’– by sitting for long stretches inside a machine. In the 2nd story we satisfy Dean Lloyd, who at age 68, is one of just a handful of people implanted with the Argus II artificial retina. Blinded at age 24, Dean now has a microchip directly connected to his optic nerve and can once again ‘see’ the world with the aid of a maker within him. Constantly circling around back to his own story, the filmmaker leads the audience through what is, in essence, a ‘doctrinal’ conversation of technology. Utilizing his own life as a focal point, Avi Zev Weider weaves ‘Welcome to The Maker’ into an experience that starts as an abstract intellectual discussion about innovation, but ends up being a very human and psychological journey for himself along with the audience.
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