In this episode of Film3 OG, Jordan sits down with filmmaker, futurist, writer, and creative technologist Taryn O’Neill for a deep conversation about storytelling, AI, science, world-building, and our responsibility to imagine better futures.
They explore Taryn’s idea of protopia — futures made incrementally better through human agency — and why storytelling can help us process rapid technological and cultural change. For Taryn, story is infrastructure: a way humans have always made sense of uncertainty, crisis, possibility, and transformation.
They also talk about the democratization of filmmaking, AI as a creative resource rather than an end in itself, lived experience, non-human intelligence, climate storytelling, and why creators must participate in shaping the systems that will define the next era.
At its heart, this is a conversation about agency: the future is not something we simply wait for. It is something we imagine, build, question, and help shape.
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