If you could build anything on Mars, what would it be? ๐๐ซ
PROJECT MARS follows five 15-year-old visionaries who win a global referendum to design humanityโs new home on the planet Mars. ๐
ABOUT THE FILM
In the AI-partnership era, humanity must decide what the first city on Mars should look like. On the red plains, robotic construction fleets sit in silent rows, waiting for a plan. The world votes between the sterile, but safe, grey fortress of Darius Draco's Titans and the Vanguard: five teenage dreamers whose design weaves rivers, painted skies, and living architecture.
The kids win. Partnered with ORION, a beloved super-intelligence who lives across a satellite constellation, they work from a moon base beside the ARK, the seed-ship that will carry the first pioneers to Mars. Their mission: command the autonomous robot army and build the city before the pioneers arrive.
But Darius Draco, the bitter mogul who lost that same vote, controls the very satellite network ORION lives on, and he is willing to burn down the sky to prove the world chose wrong.
More film clips here: https://t.co/i0E138DWE8
A PERSONAL NOTE
I am the mother of a six-year-old boy, and this film began with him. Our children will inherit tools more powerful than any generation has ever held, and the stories we tell them now will shape whether they meet that future with dread or with wonder.
That is why my heroes are children, my AI is a friend worth grieving, and my villain is not a machine: he is a man who thrives on fear and control. The technologies are real: fusion, orbital solar, tunnel-boring, regolith printing, vertical farms, robots sent ahead to build. None of it is magic. It is homework. It can be started.
My dream is simple: children walking out of the theater arguing about how they would design a city on Mars, certain the future is something they get to build, together, with the remarkable minds we are creating.
Made by one person with AI tools, nights and weekends, for the #FutureVisionXPRIZE @launchmoonshots - a global competition from @XPRIZE and @Google and Range Media Partners.
@emmanuel_2m@LEGO_Group Oh my goodness, this was on my to-do list to build, and you beat me to it! We are a house that is FULL of Lego! Will absolutely be trying this out over the coming weeks. Thank you @emmanuel_2m
George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in LA opens to public on September 22.
Cost $1.5 billion and covers 300,000 square feet with 35 galleries (tons Star Wars memorabilia) and 2 (apparently insane) movie theatres.
Took decade to build and first walk throughs look incredible.
My kid is bored out of his mind at school most days. He is 7. I would much rather he be working on Group projects, supervised by an AI champion to build out complex robots and systems. Instead, he is tracing letters over and over and over again, and doing super simple math problems. All of that will catch up. Why not teach them to love learning right now, and show them that they have access to incredible minds to help them build whatever they want?
Iโm on a mission to let kids (affordably!) launch a keepsake into the stars and track it live from their phones. ๐ The fun side effect of this is imagining what an alien would make of whatโs inside. ๐ฝ This little video I made a while back still makes me smile.
But you may ask: why send keepsakes to space when thereโs so much junk up there already? Because a kid who can track a piece of themselves orbiting Earth is a kid who starts asking what else is up there, and just might grow up trying to find out. โญ๏ธ๐ญ๐ฉโ๐
introducing the world's first fully ai video streaming service!
built using minimax h3 max turbo, you can now watch entire movies and easily create your own ones
Ryan Reynolds didnโt come of age in the 80s and he grew up in Canada. ๐คก
So allow me to explain:
The 80s isnโt a decade. Itโs an American cultural phenomenon that began in 1983 and ended on September 24, 1991, when Nevermind was released.
It was a period of unbridled optimism and glorious excess. Just look at the music, movies, fashion, cars. It was a vibe.
Of course bad things happened. Bad things always happen.
But nobody walked around talking about โsocio-political issues.โ Algorithms didnโt feed us rage bait 24/7.
There was enough technology, but not too much.
There were no cell phones. (I have no idea how we got around.)
We listened to radio and bought albums on cassettes. We read newspapers.
Kids disappeared on their bikes all day.
โจMalls were packed and local economies thrived.
It was the high-water mark for human civilization.
I'm delighted to share that Physical Superintelligence PBC (PSI), which I co-founded with @matthew_pines and @AKlokus, has raised a $58M seed round to build the world's most advanced research lab for discovering and commercializing transformative physics breakthroughs at scale with AI, safely, verifiably, and for broad public benefit.
Huge respect to everyone who poured their heart into the #FutureVisionXPRIZE! But this wasnโt just a film contest - it was embraced as a movement to show humanity thriving alongside tech. Elevating dark, dystopian tropes validates public fears about AI and misses a critical chance to showcase a future actually worth building. What gets highlighted matters deeply. Letโs keep holding the bar high for optimistic, grounded sci-fi. ๐
Maybe, but what this actually does is make AMC more useful. The big studios already get the all the big budget screenings they want. What they donโt want is AMCโs debt and their ~1000 leases. The better/cleaner play is AMC staying independent and booking the smaller, low-budget films that the majors wonโt touch, but the public wants access to.