11 Best Tech Documentaries Streaming on Netflix

8. Surviving Progress

Site Rank: 4; IMdB Rank: 7; Total Rank: 11

Directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks

The progress of human civilization has brought, among many wonderful things, an existential threat to our species. The pace at which we are using our natural resources can’t be sustained for much longer and we already feel the consequences of our overconsumption. Based on the best-selling book Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright, the movie explores how the development of new technologies can lead entire civilizations into traps that are very hard, if not outright impossible, to get out from. The quintessential question Surviving Progress asks is our evolution essentially a dead-end? Can we, as a species, develop in a way that won’t end with a planetary disaster that will make humans extinct?