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

2019·54m9.0Documentary

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?

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Nora Atkinson

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Jon Bruner

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Martin Ford

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Shigeo Kiuchi

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Nahoko Kojima

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Neil MacGregor

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Hisato Nakahigashi

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Katsuaki Suganuma

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