Google and the World Brain

Google and the World Brain

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-01-18

Languages:

English, Spanish, Catalan, Japanese, German, French

Countries:

Spain, UK, Germany

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (476 Reviews)

Director:

Ben Lewis

Fullplot:

The story of the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet, and the people who tried to stop it. In 1937 HG Wells predicted the creation of the "World Brain", a giant global library that contained all human knowledge which would lead to a new form of higher intelligence. Seventy year later the realization of that dream was underway, as Google scanned millions and millions of books for its Google Books website. But over half those books were still in copyright, and authors across the world launched a campaign to stop them, climaxing in a New York courtroom in 2011. A film about the dreams, dilemmas and dangers of the Internet, set in spectacular locations in China, USA, Europe and Latin America.

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