After a mishap involve her office’sslick new printer , mature pencil - pusher Marlène gets called out byher oily untried boss . Perhaps , he suggests , if she ca n’t acquire with the technology , she should take herself out of the workforce entirely . Assci - fi shortSeniors 3000 reveals , there is another , far wilder way !
Shared byShort of the Week , this 16 - minute of arc smoothie from Julien David uses both 2D and 3D animation to weave a fantastical story that explores some real - world theme , include agism , the generation spread , corporate greed , and the solitariness of an empty - nester . Beyond the real world , Seniors 3000 also imagines what might encounter if elderly people embraced gamey - tech phylogeny a slight too much — and who might be standing by to greedily exploit them before moving on to an equally vulnerable , far jr. group of people .
That write up for certain escalated a good deal ! Like , to apocalyptic levels ! Two big takeaways from Marlène ’s story : never underestimate the king of organization , even when it ’s being done by a group of human - robot crossbreed designed for highly specific purposes — and mind any manager type who ’s still pat as a way of life to punctuate his prison term .
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