Hacker Cinema
Plurality
2012 · Film · short · 14 min
Directed by Dennis Liu
In the near future, instant DNA identification has created an information grid that makes crime extremely difficult, and anonymity impossible. But, suddenly, the same IDs start to appear in different locations. A pro-level and intelligent sci-fi piece about the genesis of a big brother state.
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I have a feeling it might be "Plurality" by DUST on YouTube, a 15min short film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pocEN5HprsM
DUST make a lot of cool sci-fi short films, worth checking some of their others too https://www.youtube.com/c/watchdust/videos e.g. Bleem, the number between 3 and 4, slightly remeniscent of the film Pi and the crazy mathematician trope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXnFr1d7B9w or Orbit Ever After, a love story in a dystopian Brazil style future of orbital habitats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpFXMIxlgPo
And just because, from another channel a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkBS4O3yvY a short about quantum suicide - One-Minute Time Machine | Sploid Short Film Festival.
You might like this video, too:
http://falkvinge.net/2012/10/05/plurality-an-amazing-short-film-about-surveillance-in-2023/
When you see the video below, it's easy to imagine how likely that future will be if citizens don't care about what their Government is doing and simply let them pass all the bad laws, without any major outrage:
http://falkvinge.net/2012/10/05/plurality-an-amazing-short-film-about-surveillance-in-2023/
We've already seen how advanced western Governments think about stuff like this (in UK, but also in US) - "when it's easy and cheap enough to apply mass-surveillance of all forms of communications, why not do it?". So they'll do it even if it's unconstitutional, once the technology becomes cheap enough and people still don't react to these moves en mass.
There will be new technologies in the future that will simply be irresistible to the Governments that can implement them nation-wide. It's the population's job to be very vigilant about it and make sure they don't abuse them (or use them at all).