Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 2016


Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

Buy Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




'Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World' is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. In it, Herzog ponders the existential impact of the Internet, robotics, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and more on human life. The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and was sponsored by the company NetScout. The film contains interviews with Bob Kahn, Elon Musk, Sebastian Thrun, Ted Nelson, and other leaders of the technology world.

Chapters



*I. The Early Days

*II. The Glory of the Net

*III. The Dark Side

*IV. Life Without the Net

*V. The End of the Net

*VI. Earthly Invaders

*VII. Internet on Mars

*VIII. Artificial Intelligence

*IX. The Internet of Me

*X. The Future

Synopsis



Herzog narrates over footage of the University of California at Los Angeles, "the birthplace of the Internet," then comes to the first piece of Internet equipment ever to be installed. From here, the film explores the beneficial opportunities the Internet has afforded humans.

Herzog interviews a family that has been harassed online after the death of their daughter. They express their grief.

An institute where no electronic equipment is allowed within a 3-mile radius is examined and the society of people living in this area expresses their experience. Eventually, the film comes to a group of people that are afflicted with an electromagnetism sensitivity condition who begrudgingly have to live in this area. Then the film comes to Elon Musk and his quest to send humans to Mars. Artificial intelligence is touched upon and the film comes to focus on how robots could become replacements for human interaction in the future.

At the end of the film, Herzog poses the question to multiple interviewees, "Can the Internet dream of itself?"

Interviews



* Joydeep Biswas

* Shawn Carpenter

* Hilarie Cash

* Family of Nicole Catsouras

* Chloe

* Sam Curry

* Danny Hillis

* Marcel Just

* Robert Kahn

* Leonard Kleinrock

* Lawrence M Krauss

* Felix Jay Lockman

* Tom M. Mitchell

* Kevin Mitnick

* Elon Musk

* Theodor Holm Nelson

* Raj Rajkumar

* Diane Schou

* Sebastian Thrun

* Tom

* Adrien Treuille

* J Michael Vandeweghe

* Lucianne Walkowicz

* Jennifer Wood

* Jonathan L Zittrain

Themes



When asked by TechCrunch.com what effect could the film have on the audience, Herzog replied:

Reception



'Lo and Behold' has received generally favorable reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 93% approval rating based on 141 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5 out of 10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 76 out of 100 based on 28 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

References




Buy Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 2016



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1108654544.