For the course ‘Multimedia Systems’ a motion picture had to be concocted expressing some inspired vision of the expected technological blessings of the future. Our pick: Ambient Intelligence; hidden, ubiquitous technology registering all human behaviour around and responding to it intelligently and adequately. We took the naive and playful approach.

Borrowed a camera, studio lights and a living room, bought some fishing wire and edited the whole thing in Adobe Premiere. Starring Karel van den Aarsen as Karel van den Aarsen (the future version of him).