VIDEO: The (Future) Friendship Machine

Invisibilia

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🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A special gift during this season of giving: An original animated video in two parts! Part 1 explores a small but strange study about a machine that could predict human friendships. Then, in collaboration with fictionalist Ian Chillag (Everything Is Alive), we ask, What would the machine have to say about all of this, if it could talk? If you are having trouble viewing the video, you can watch it at npr.org/invisibilia. And, if you want to reciprocate this little gift, don't forget to donate to your NPR station before the end of the year at donate.npr.org/invis.

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0:18.4	Hey guys, it's Hannah here.
0:20.7	It's the holiday season, so we have a little surprise for you, a video.
0:24.7	That's right.
0:25.5	We have an incredible animation for you to watch while you listen to the story.
0:29.3	So look down at your screen.
0:31.0	Now, look at it now.
0:32.9	We'll be back in the spring with our regular season.
0:35.0	But for now, enjoy this very special animated edition of Invisibility.
0:40.0	Here's Elise.
0:42.3	Let's start at the beginning.
0:44.1	It was around June 2014.
0:46.3	Harmony, Jeff.
0:47.9	And 20 young adults gathered for training.
0:50.6	So we're going to spend the next two months together,
0:53.1	working to organize Walmart employees.
0:55.8	And we were all asked to stand up and share
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