Closing out season 3 of Enter The Void, Renan and Bill consider Don Hertzfeldt's Oscar-nominated animated short WORLD OF TOMORROW, which asks more brilliant and terrifying questions in its 17 minutes than many feature length sci-fi movies put together. For Emily, the 4-year-old central protagonist, and the viewer alike, it's a head-spinning tour of the medium-near future where cloning and life extension, virtual reality, autonomous robots, "discount" time travel, and even living on the moon are all part of the same tedious experience as our own smartphones and instant communications. Also discussed: what happens when our memories become art, or commodity?; in this Netflix-YouTube age, why aren't more short films being made?; what themes from this resonate with Hertzfeldt's earlier work?; and how close are we to virtual reality with the Oculus Rift and the 2016 procedurally generated adventure game No Man's Sky?

Film links:

• World of Tomorrow on IMDb
• World of Tomorrow on Wikipedia
• Rent World of Tomorrow on Vimeo
• Hertzfeldt interview on NPR
• Hertzfelt interview with The Dissolve
• Hertzfeldt Simpsons couch gag
• The Atlantic on World of Tomorrow
• AV Club on World of Tomorrow
• Simulation hypothesis on Wikipedia
• The Playlist Best Sci Fi Films of 21C
• No Man's Sky on Wikipedia
• Trailer for It's Such a Beautiful Day
• High Maintenance on Vimeo
• Grantland on short films

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