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  • This 1972 Documentary Predicted We’d Choose Our Own Skin Colours

    This 1972 Documentary Predicted We’d Choose Our Own Skin Colours

    Will it be commonplace for people of the future to get their skin colour artificially changed? Not just black or white or brown, but also orange and blue and grey? The 1972 documentary Future Shock, hosted by legendary director Orson Welles, imagined just such a world. “What happens to race?” Welles asks, when people can…