I’m Paul Giamatti and I am directing and
doing the interviewing in an episode of
breakthrough called more than human it
was out of left field for me I mean I’ve
obviously never done anything like this
but the guy that I know was helping
produce it david jacobson came to me and
told me what the whole project was and
then they said these are the subjects
and which one interests you and they
were all interesting to me but the human
engineering one I don’t know that just
really interests me I suppose it’s got
something to do with being sort of
interested in human beings I mean it’s
what I do for a living and I’m just
interested in how the body works and
things like that it was just intriguing
to me I’d never seen any of this stuff I
hadn’t even really heard much about any
of this stuff I think I thought it was
gonna be different than it turned out to
be the suits even were different I mean
I had kind of real sort of crude
robocopy ideas about what everything was
going to look like and then everything
turned out to be much more sort of
subtle and kind of internal and much
more about the brain it’s definitely
been something I mean it’s been a hugely
eye-opening thing I hadn’t realized how
much of this stuff was going on one guy
we talked to was talking about a suit
that you can stream information into and
so that you could have a kind of global
knowledge of the stock market through
this machine that will just feed stuff
into your spine people will be able to
interface directly in the machines as a
guy talking about genetically
engineering people to survive longer in
space there’s a guy we talked to who is
joining brains into a kind of organic
computer so that people can think
simultaneously the community who knows
what that’s going to be able to do we
talked to a guy in Sweden I mean he can
disembody you right now and you can be
convincingly put into the body of an
inanimate object or any number of things
I mean this stuff has been really wild
it’s kind of limitless the whole idea
with a lot of this stuff was that at
some point you don’t just feel like you
have a tool that’s been put on your body
it is your body there’s no difference
between you and
the mechanical piece one of the most
amazing things is to see these people
wearing these things and how effective
it is and you know this kind of
incredible joining of body and machine
that’s really beautiful
this stuff will change my life I mean it
will change my kid’s life that’s pretty
extraordinary
doing the interviewing in an episode of
breakthrough called more than human it
was out of left field for me I mean I’ve
obviously never done anything like this
but the guy that I know was helping
produce it david jacobson came to me and
told me what the whole project was and
then they said these are the subjects
and which one interests you and they
were all interesting to me but the human
engineering one I don’t know that just
really interests me I suppose it’s got
something to do with being sort of
interested in human beings I mean it’s
what I do for a living and I’m just
interested in how the body works and
things like that it was just intriguing
to me I’d never seen any of this stuff I
hadn’t even really heard much about any
of this stuff I think I thought it was
gonna be different than it turned out to
be the suits even were different I mean
I had kind of real sort of crude
robocopy ideas about what everything was
going to look like and then everything
turned out to be much more sort of
subtle and kind of internal and much
more about the brain it’s definitely
been something I mean it’s been a hugely
eye-opening thing I hadn’t realized how
much of this stuff was going on one guy
we talked to was talking about a suit
that you can stream information into and
so that you could have a kind of global
knowledge of the stock market through
this machine that will just feed stuff
into your spine people will be able to
interface directly in the machines as a
guy talking about genetically
engineering people to survive longer in
space there’s a guy we talked to who is
joining brains into a kind of organic
computer so that people can think
simultaneously the community who knows
what that’s going to be able to do we
talked to a guy in Sweden I mean he can
disembody you right now and you can be
convincingly put into the body of an
inanimate object or any number of things
I mean this stuff has been really wild
it’s kind of limitless the whole idea
with a lot of this stuff was that at
some point you don’t just feel like you
have a tool that’s been put on your body
it is your body there’s no difference
between you and
the mechanical piece one of the most
amazing things is to see these people
wearing these things and how effective
it is and you know this kind of
incredible joining of body and machine
that’s really beautiful
this stuff will change my life I mean it
will change my kid’s life that’s pretty
extraordinary
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