H+: The Digital Series

H+: The Digital Series. Stewart Hendler, director. Warner Premiere, 2012-2013. <http://www.youtube.com/user/HplusDigitalSeries>.[1][2]

Reviewed by Ritch Calvin, SFRA Review #303 (Winter 2013): pp. 18-19.[3]

The viewer must actively put together the disparate storylines and characters because they are all connected. The HPlus chip is designed to make “everyone connected, all the time.” The series requires the viewer to make those connections within the narrative framework.

The company HPlus Nano Teoranta (http://www.hplusnanoteoranta.com/index.html) [...]has worked toward the ideal of transhumanism. HPlus stands for “a set of ideologies, a set of technologies” that works toward the enhancement of the capabilities of the human body. They created a suite of medical technologies that monitors twenty-five key processes within the body and an early warning system for many diseases. [...] The company pioneers its technology though its youth outreach program in Africa and elsewhere. Eventually, it creates an implant that can interface directly with the web. (Calvin, p. 18) * * *

H+ takes a somewhat dismal view of the Singularity, though it is somewhat skeptical of the neo-Luddites as well. (p. 19)

The Wikipedia entry classifies H+ as dystopian work, set in a "near future brought about by a technological singularity holocaust from the perspective of differing transhumanism factions [...]."[4] See Wikipedia for list of episodes.[5]

At least into 2021, H+ its own Fandom wiki, q.v..[6]

++++++++++++++++++++ Also reviewed by Tania Darlington, SFRA Review #316 (Spring 2016): pp. 35-36.[7]

H+: The Digital Series. Prod. Bryan Singer and Jason Taylor. Bad Hat Harry Productions and Warner Premiere Digital Dolphin Entertainment, 2012 H+: The Digital Series. Web. 25 April 2016.

Darlington's formulation:

As its name indicates, H+: The Digital Series (H+) is largely concerned with the impact of transhumanism. In fact, the imminent danger of transhumanism is such an essential component of H+ that the series opens with its own simplistic definition of the philosophy: “Transhumanism N. An international movement that supports the transforming of the human body. This movement is often abbreviated as H+.” The show’s basic premise turns on the ramifications of a nanotechnology implant, developed by the company HPlus Nano, which allows humans to network, compute, and surf the internet independent of any wired connection or physical computer sysystem – the seamless merging of man and machine. (p. 35)

Definitely see for its place among works featuring implants[8] and nanotechnology.[9]

RDE, finishing, 3Jul21, 24Aug21