I've seen many science fiction movies and countless documentaries about the future of humanity. Nothing I've ever seen was as inspiring and beautiful as this extraordinary short film by Erik Wernquist, narrated by Carl Sagan. It is not hyperbole. Turn off the lights, pump the volume, and get ready for goosebumps.
Here's the original text narrated by Sagan, from his book The Pale Blue Dot—a book that, if you haven't yet, you must read.
For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game—none of them lasts forever. It is beyond our powers to predict the future. Catastrophic events have a way of sneaking up on us, of catching us unaware. Your own life, or your band's, or even your species' might be owed to a restless few—drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds.
Seriolusly, this is so amazing that I couldn't resist opening my computer at 2:40AM—when Gawker's J.K. Trotter sent it to me in the middle of the night—to share it with you all as soon as possible.
Someone at some big studio or Amazon or Netflix or whoever should hire Erik Wernquist to turn all of Pale Blue Dot into full-length animation film with Carl Sagan narrating it. I would watch it on repeat forever.
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