On the other end of the phone line, screenwriter and filmmaker Avi Weider makes potato latkes for the next day’s house warming party. It’s December, and Weider and his family, as is their habit in the last four years or so, have moved yet again. At times during the conversation, he pauses for a second, “I’m tasting a latka. It came out great.” It’s a very familial, very comforting, very human sort of action that juxtaposes nicely against the following chat about his well-received feature script Zeroes and Ones, an exploration of technology, history and the spaces where the two meet.
SM: What was the genesis and then the evolution of this project?
AW: The genesis is from two directions. One is a documentary that I’ve been working on for several years about society and technology, how technology affects human values. The premise for that project was this bet made between two futurists about whether a computer will be as intelligent as a human...
