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ACMI presents

The Future History of the World in 7 On-Screen Objects

Unclassified (All Ages)
Lecture

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Full

$20

Concession

$16

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$14

When

Sat 15 Feb 2025

1pm

Ever wondered what movies, videogames and TV shows get right – and hilariously wrong – about the future?

Join author, game developer and critic Adrian Hon as he takes you on a thrilling tour through seven iconic objects from speculative screen worlds. From Minority Report’s gesture-based tech to Death Stranding’s exoskeleton and Paprika’s DC Mini dream machine, each item opens a window into our shared hopes, fears and curiosities about tomorrow. Discover how these on-screen creations are both fantastic and oddly familiar, reflecting our evolving relationship with technology and what it reveals about us all.

Event duration

60 mins

Rating

Unclassified (All Ages)

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Cinema 2, Level 2
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Presented by Adrian Hon

Adrian Hon is a game designer, author, and former CEO and founder of Six to Start, co-creator of the world's bestselling smartphone fitness game Zombies, Run! with ten million players. He wrote a critique of gamification called, You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All and the sci-fi novel A History of the Future in 100 Objects. Adrian’s work has been featured at MOMA and the V&A, and he’s consulted for Disney Imagineering and The British Museum. Before becoming a game designer, Adrian was a neuroscientist and experimental psychologist at Cambridge, UCSD and Oxford.

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Exhibition | 28 Nov 2024 – 27 Apr 2025

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