'Voyager' animated short warns against a tech-obsessed future
 

'Voyager' animated short warns against a tech-obsessed future
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The best science fiction mixes unlikely events with reality in ways that make us ask big questions, and in the case of Voyager, the film brought a tear to my eye. Yes, really.

Written and directed by France-based Loïc Magar and Roman Veiga, the short 3D animation-meets-stop motion film tells a story in which the real Voyager space probe returns to a future, dystopian Earth.*

NASA sent the real Voyager 1 and 2 probes into space back in 1977. They carried 12-inch golden records containing sounds and images from Earth as documents in case the probes were discovered by a**ther civilization.

In the film, one probe lands back on Earth and is discovered by a 7-year-old girl of the future who has embedded tech**logy as a central part of her life. After playing the record, the character goes through a transformation that is best seen rather than described.* Read more...

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