The Mission
Finding a sustainable relationship with technology is the most significant and urgent issue of our time, as it impacts all the other existential problems we face as individuals, societies, nations, and species.
Our mission with this film is to distill this complex problem into digestible truths that convey the costs of internet platforms and make them as widely understood in the canon of common knowledge as the benefits.
The first step to solving any problem is to identify it. This film serves as a public service announcement to inform global citizens, protect our children, and preserve human values. It was financed independently to stay true to this mission and does not represent the interest of political or corporate organizations.
— Featured Cast —
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Roger McNamee
Early Facebook Investor
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Dr Safiya Noble
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression”
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Carrissa Veliz
Assc. Prof., The Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford University
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Susie Alegre
International Human Rights Lawyer
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Julie Albright
Author, “Left to Their Own Devices”
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Dr Hilarie Cash
Co-Founder, RESTART
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Shelia Hayman
Director's Fellow, MIT Media Lab
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Robert Greene
Author, “The Laws of Human Nature”
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Tommy Sobel
Founder, Brick
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Quddus
Former MTV Host
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Dr Ella McPherson
Prof., Sociology of New Media & Digital Tech, Cambridge
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Dr John Hutton
Director, Reading and Literacy Discovery Center
The Score
The Cost of Convenience marks the second collaboration between composer Michael Csanyi-Wills and director David Donnelly. Watch the clip for a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process. You can stream and download the phenomenal score here.
-The Filmmakers-
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David Donnelly
Director
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James Thomas
Producer
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Sanaz Abravani
Executive Producer
A message from the Director
“I am the last of the analogs. That feels strange to write, but it’s true. I was born in 1981. I had to memorize the phone numbers of friends and family, research with actual encyclopedias, order food with humans, and have awkward conversations with people at airports and in elevators. A lot has changed in my lifetime. The most important change I noticed is the transfer of trust. We used to be more trusting of each other and cautious of technology. Now, we are more cautious of each other and more trusting of technology.” -David Donnelly from “The Last of the Analogs”
