If all the data transmitted online for only one day was burned on to CDs, the pile would stretched to Mars and back. If a directory of people on the internet – like the one that existed when it was in its nascent form – was to be published, it would be 72 miles thick. There’s a young scientist who’s trying to create a robot that’s better at football than Christiano Ronaldo or Leo Messi.
These are just a few of the things Werner Herzog fixes his critical eye upon during Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, a quizzical look into the seemingly arcane worlds of the web and tech.
Funded by cybersecurity firm NetScout, it’s expansive and ambitious, which is probably why Herzog decided to break it up into 10 chapters, each on a facet of the online and tech world. Via a coterie of charming, if sometimes awkward boffins and geeks interviewed in labs or their own garages, Herzog weaves a fantastical tale that tries to explain the online world inhabited by about 3 billion people.
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