Jeremy Irons's Anti-Technology Rant Is a Thing of Beauty

History is very short.

History is very short.

It's incredible. Very short.

[Krista] And getting shorter, right?

Okay.

Everything's got faster.

I think that we must be coming to the tipping point

where we realize that actually things can't get

any faster than now, we have to design lives that will be

slower, design lives which allow us more time to reflect

and to sit and to communicate face to face with people.

I think that will be the next big step,

to throw away some of the toys which have been sold to us

on the pretext that they will make our lives easier

and simpler and of course, they don't.

So I hope we go through this sort of

computer revolution, this laptop revolution,

this screen revolution and grow through it,

evolve through it because it can't get much faster.

Right, right.

Well, no one even has a land line anymore, it's like gotten

[Jeremy] I know.

It's like, I love the old school phone.

I know, and we've sort of seen an implosion

with, you know, with 2008 with people in the business

and banking world going faster and faster and faster

and finally not really understanding what they're doing

but just knowing how it works and then we've seen that

implosion, and now we're trying to build back to that.

It's extraordinary, we haven't learned anything.

I think there will be another and it will be

a deeper recession and it will make us, I hope so, actually,

and it will make us think about those people who earn

very little, who don't have work, how do we create a society

that's fair for them?

And stop focusing all our attention and all our wealth

towardS these big companies and these gamblers who work

in banks, you know, making money out of what?

Out of what, where should that money be?

When you make a million dollar deal,

where's that million come from?

It comes from someone.

So I hope we'll

we've got a bit of evolving to do, I think.

Well, there's some interesting the artists

will take it up first, there's some movies

that usually seems where they flex,

hold a mirror up to the society and we'll see what comes

I hope.

[Krista] We'll start there first.