{"id":236981,"date":"2026-05-12T10:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/qatsi-director-godfrey-reggio-we-are-in-the-cyborg-state"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:05:12","slug":"qatsi-director-godfrey-reggio-we-are-in-the-cyborg-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/qatsi-director-godfrey-reggio-we-are-in-the-cyborg-state","title":{"rendered":"Qatsi Director Godfrey Reggio: We Are in the Cyborg State!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U_xsraT6ums?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thirteen years ago, I sat down with a filmmaker who had spent his life warning us about a future we are now living inside.<\/p>\n<p>Godfrey Reggio is the director of Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi, the Qatsi trilogy. Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi word. It means life out of balance.<\/p>\n<p>In our conversation, he said something I have never been able to shake:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s our behavior that determines the content of our mind. We become what we do. We become what we see. We become the routine that we are a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read that again. Slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Now look at your phone. Look at your feed. Look at the average screen time of the people around you, including yourself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/qatsi-director-godfrey-reggio-we-are-in-the-cyborg-state\">Continue reading \u201cQatsi Director Godfrey Reggio: We Are in the Cyborg State!\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen years ago, I sat down with a filmmaker who had spent his life warning us about a future we are now living inside. Godfrey Reggio is the director of Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi, the Qatsi trilogy. Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi word. It means life out of balance. In our conversation, he said something I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1509,42,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-entertainment","category-media-arts","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}