Abstract
“A New Order in a New World: The Titan Economic Model” is a brief news-styled film report depicting a radical, albeit fictional, accounting of only one possible future-history for economic development of humanity. Speculating on the future-history of global economic structures raises noteworthy concerns while simultaneously setting the stage for rather radical new ideals.
A small group of NSU Honors students set about this very task of speculation on future-history in Dr. Brodman’s fall 2012 Honors course History of Economic Development. The time-frame of the film is set in December of 2012 amidst total collapse of the globalized economic structure on planet Earth after nuclear war erupted among most of the world’s developed nations. In order to escape inevitable doom, a courageous and revolutionary band of only six hundred pioneers, dedicated to beginning life anew and elsewhere under a more equitable economic model, managed to flee the global conflagration with a spacecraft, supplies, and equipment stolen from the United States arsenal at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Labs; destination – Titan – the only one of Saturn’s 62 moons known to sustain environmental conditions well-equipped to support human habitation.
This fictional film report describes in striking detail the nature of this radically new and equitable economic model and how the basic institutions therein could ultimately function for the betterment of humanity. The film was produced and directed by Linea Cutter, Nathaniel Dolan, William Kotkin, Elizabeth Mortazavi, and Amrish Ramnarine; technical direction was provided by Nathaniel Dolan; cinematography and post-production editing were provided by Amrish Ramnarine.
Faculty Sponsors
Dr. Barbara Brodman, Dr. Chetachi Egwu, Dr. Weylin Sternglanz
Project Type
Event
Location
Alvin Sherman Library
Start Date
4-12-2013 1:00 PM
End Date
4-12-2013 5:30 PM
A New Order in a New World: The Titan Economic Model
Alvin Sherman Library
“A New Order in a New World: The Titan Economic Model” is a brief news-styled film report depicting a radical, albeit fictional, accounting of only one possible future-history for economic development of humanity. Speculating on the future-history of global economic structures raises noteworthy concerns while simultaneously setting the stage for rather radical new ideals.
A small group of NSU Honors students set about this very task of speculation on future-history in Dr. Brodman’s fall 2012 Honors course History of Economic Development. The time-frame of the film is set in December of 2012 amidst total collapse of the globalized economic structure on planet Earth after nuclear war erupted among most of the world’s developed nations. In order to escape inevitable doom, a courageous and revolutionary band of only six hundred pioneers, dedicated to beginning life anew and elsewhere under a more equitable economic model, managed to flee the global conflagration with a spacecraft, supplies, and equipment stolen from the United States arsenal at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Labs; destination – Titan – the only one of Saturn’s 62 moons known to sustain environmental conditions well-equipped to support human habitation.
This fictional film report describes in striking detail the nature of this radically new and equitable economic model and how the basic institutions therein could ultimately function for the betterment of humanity. The film was produced and directed by Linea Cutter, Nathaniel Dolan, William Kotkin, Elizabeth Mortazavi, and Amrish Ramnarine; technical direction was provided by Nathaniel Dolan; cinematography and post-production editing were provided by Amrish Ramnarine.
