Monday, February 29, 2016

Water privatization and the sci-fi future

I just wanted to share with you all an indie sci-fi film, Sleep Dealer (http://www.sleepdealer.com/), because there are some themes here that relate to water privatization. This is a sci-fi film centered on the perspective from the other side of the technological divide. In this proposed future, the U.S. imports Mexican labor via robots in the U.S. that are operated within virtual control centers in Tijuana, thereby attaining the ideal of “labor without the laborers” in the "Cybracero program". The protagonist of the film comes from a rural town in Oaxaca where the local river has been dammed up and privatized by an American company. The dream of regaining common access to the river becomes a significant part of the storyline (and I’ll stop there to avoid giving any spoilers!)

1 comment:

  1. Sounds cool! It also brings to mind turking (performing rote tasks via computer, which is often outsourced and very unfairly compensated) as a form of cybertariat labor.

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