Takumi: A 60,000 Hour Story on the Survival of Human Craft · 2019

Overview

There is a popular theory that it takes at least 10,000 hours of focused practice for a human to become expert in any field. In Japan, there are craftspeople who go far beyond this to reach a special kind of mastery. These people are called Takumi and they devote 60,000 hours to their craft. That's 8 hours a day, 240 days a year, for over 30 years. It's an almost superhuman level of dedication to a life of repetition and no shortcuts. This film asks the question: Will human craft disappear as artificial intelligence reaches beyond our limits?

Cast

Nora Atkinson, Jon Bruner, Martin Ford, Shigeo Kiuchi, Nahoko Kojima, Neil MacGregor, Hisato Nakahigashi, Katsuaki Suganuma

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