Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
It was a trip to watch this in 2020, at a time when we are all so excessively and desperately reliant on the Internet! The experts that <PERSON> talks to make it sound like, really, the worst thing that could happen in the middle of a pandemic would be for the Internet to stop working. One of them even wonders whether we would “remember” how to live without the web — I hadn’t thought about it from that horrifying perspective.
The experts also point out the problems that we are facing more directly today - surveillance of people through metadata, the impossibility of regulating a system that was first built on the idea that its users would be respectful, <PERSON> pretending to know anything about science.
<PERSON> brings his typical lyricism to make this a true historical document of our new digital era. 419