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4M Presents
Discussing the Impact of Technology on Society Through Films
RISE OF THE WARRIOR APES
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Join a film screening, discussion and dinner at Agora Space!
PLOT
At least since famous ethologist, Frans de Waal published books like Our Inner Ape and since zoologist Desmond Morris hosted the BBC series The Naked Ape we know that our primate cousins’ behavior mirrors our own. Director James Reed has turned the work of anthropologists, who have been for more than 20 years researching the social behavior of a chimpanzee clan in Uganda's Kibale National Park, into a breathtaking documentary, which shows that it is effectively not technology but eventually values which will save humanity from disaster.
In the light of an imminent military conflict between China and the United, which is the subject of many recent publications like The China Mirage by James Bradley, Asia’s Reckoning by Richard McGregor or the documentary Better Angels by director Malcolm Clark, the insights shown in the RISE OF THE WARRIOR APES about violence, brutal power struggles, rivalry, enmity, friendship and diplomacy teach an important lesson which does not need to be repeated by humanity.
Join us to watch this consternating, but enlightening piece of film work and discuss with us such things as the Thucydides Trap, the race for AI technology, Marshall Rosenberg’s non-violent communication, the role of oxytocin, the fundamental attribution error and how nation-states might be able to transform into an organizational structure of only one in-group.
AGENDA
18:30-19:30 Registration, networking, light dinner
MODERATOR & ORGANIZER
CO-ORGANIZER
Agora Space is an international co-working office located in Xuhui district, Shanghai. We are engineers, makers, traders, designers, and entrepreneurs working as freelance or running startup or business.