An excerpt from Jay Bhattacharya's conversation with Nick Hudson. Professor Bhattacharya is a member of PANDA's Scientific Advisory Board. www.pandata.org | Telegram: https://t.me/pandata19​ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qob23E3qYkU

We all know that have we a problem! What do real solutions look like? And why we need to start believing in silver bullets. In March 2020 preproduction on Simon's film, Apophis, was stalled due to the pandemic. The film explores how utilitarian ideology would destroy humanity in the face of a devastating asteroid impact that is predicted by a computer simulation. The opening lines of Apophis are a voice over: “We named it with our fear. Defied it with our hope. In the end, it was an idea that destroyed us.” As an early adopter of the digital film process, Simon became expert in CGI. He has acted as Visual Effects Supervisor on numerous Hollywood films. He worked on District 9 and Chronicle, both of which blended found footage or mock-umentary footage with cutting edge CGI enhancement to produce a novel, heightened reality in cinema. Simon helped prototype and field test the first RAW cinema camera which was used on Slumdog Millionaire, which won the Oscar for cinematography 2008. Being ahead of the techno trend empowered him as an author of near-fi and Sci-fi. screenplays. But philosophically he has always had an obsession with where humanity is ultimately headed. Simon will touch on a range of themes in his presentation from propaganda and divide and rule in the algorithmic era, to the living revolution concealed beneath the canopy of lies we have been trained to believe. “There is a silver bullet and I know how to find it.” Mick Houston. The Covid event has revealed that it was about more than just public health and the political, economic and societal aspects of the response are of far greater significance than the virus itself. There remains a continued drive toward the transformation of our societies in ways that threaten democracy and our existing ways of life. Open Society Sessions aim to examine the political, societal and economic dimensions of our recent experience and analyse developments in the future. Support our work: https://www.pandata.org/donate ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xYNAd2879Y

An excerpt from Jay Bhattacharya's conversation with Nick Hudson. Professor Bhattacharya is a member of PANDA's Scientific Advisory Board. www.pandata.org Telegram: https://t.me/pandata19 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gTXpYEeY0

"Centralization is the concentration of means for a lesser amount of ends than private people would pursue independently." Open Session Snippet from his presentation "The Economics of Financial Centralization" Watch his full presentation here: https://youtu.be/ilY8g5PjOnw ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oapUX0qQ9rA