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What's the most fascinating documentary you've ever watched and why did it captivate you? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 7 months ago by merari42 to c/asklemmy

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For me it's gotta be something from ARTE (the French/German culture television channel). Either it's the one about Chodorowskis weird Dune project or the three-part series about the history of racism. Both were extremely well-made documentaries.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Probably Tony Seba clean disruption.

I'm not sure if this quite fits. He looked into the past and extrapolated into the future.

Now it's hard to think back 10 but no one really thought solar panels were going to go anywhere and everyone thought electric vehicles were a gimic. Many, many experts made predictions of linear or linear with some jumps. But I remember Tony Seba talking about exponentials and improvements in costs and manufacturing. He was the only one and everyone made fun of him. But he turned out to be right.

Everything he said made so much sense to me, what I knew about physics, economics and manufacturing. All of it resonated with me and I was sure that guy was on to something. But no one else was.

I'm really surprised he isn't more famous. I really need to go back and rewatch a video from 10 years ago just to see how close he got.