The film focuses on the various emerging technologies that Transhumanism has coalesced around and feature illuminating (or potentially terrifying) interviews with scientists working in these fields. It is a really smart look at humanity's quest for immortality through science. It gets into how this quest effects art and culture and how the whole mess intersects to form the very fabric of who we are.

The cinematographic execution of the film was in itself downright disappointing. The content on the other hand was mindblowing. I feel as scizophrenic about this film as Hugo de Garis said he feels about the artilect. The ideas presented here, the people being interviewed, the science being presented are awesome to say the least. If you are a self-respecting life form, you should get acquainted with the developments within science & technology and consider the possibility that your current biological form might soon become obsolete. "Technopolyps" is probably not the best place to start, though. The film is all over the place although Frank Theys is trying his best to keep a straight line. You'd be much better off reading the Wikipedia articles on transhumanism, Singularity, Kurzweil etc. However, the film could serve as a useful overview of the main actors & thinkers within the field of transhumanism.Considering that the III films are from 2006, many of the interviews seem outdated, as if they were not recorded recently nor specifically for this film. Especially part I uses old film footage as if it was scientific evidence.The film (narration) often becomes decidedly subjective, which undermines the credibility of the material. This is really lamentable considering that the theme is extremely exciting, interesting and worth being taken seriously. Conclusion: watch it anyway but try to be indulgent with the glitches and awkward moments and be prepared to cherry-pick inbetwixt the information.

If you step back and widen your lens as far as your imagination can stretch, you can find reason in the arguments that Theys is providing. Human interconnectedness via social networks, human bodies being augmented via surgery for the greater good, the XY generation of sex selection in certain countries such as India and China... you could go on and on, and Theys does just that and builds up a fine argument. I could see how some could see this as a skewed perspective. The rhetoric is strongly against technology as a controlling force and soon to be the dominating force. Didn't Wall-E already cover this ground in a nicer version and nobody seemed to complain. Adam Curtis added more rational to the debate in his series Machines of Loving Grace. Society is interconnected into the technologyworld to such a degree that we cant perceive life without it and continue to acknowledge it makes life better for us. So why stop, why not let technology continue to make that life better. You can debate and say that the facts are wrong and that the views are biased but i have a feeling that those who watched this and saw some resonance in it will think in 20-30 years time (after getting a new fake heart and hip), that movie did warn us... its a kinda "Told you so" moment!!!. this is all contained in the first two sections... the third one goes a bit off the wall...There are enough people who are progressive scientists who wish not to look back and only to the future in the hope that reason and rational will eventually bring that answer that faiths and religions. Theys tries to bring this perspective that we will find our own answers in the final part of the section but does so in a weak vague way. Any proper theologists would refute his position as being as narrow as any atheistic view out there. there was no debate or perspective from those from faith formations to see how they view this aspect.All in all, the arguments are thrown out there for you to consider. What Theys intended with this piece is to make people talk. Its not a vision of the future, its just a debate on how it may go unless we question some of these fundamental issues that surround our life. How can we question a mechanism and system that moves so fast, faster than our answers of human reason to find a place in the public, well thats another question....

I very highly recommend this film. Even though there is much conjecture about how technology might affect the future, there is also much that is discussed that is already true, and is actually affecting our lives today.The fact that the rate of speed of technological advancements is doubling is a fact.I won't say anymore, except that if you like to think, and you want to know what our future on this planet might hold very soon, and you want to have your mind blown, see this film immediately.I loved it.Robert R