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Internet Rising

2011 · 53 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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The internet's effect on human consciousness gets tested through a rapid-fire mashup of live webcam interviews, recorded between June and September 2011 with contributors scattered across the globe. Vinton Cerf, Google's chief internet evangelist, appears alongside Douglas Rushkoff, Kevin Kelly, Tiffany Shlain, Howard Rheingold, and Andrew Keen, plus hackers, gamers, activists, and a Second Life resident, each answering questions about how networked technology is reshaping economics, politics, geography, and philosophy. Roger Nelson of Princeton's Global Consciousness Project and Kabbalah scholar Michael Laitman push the conversation toward stranger territory, asking whether the internet is becoming something like a shared mind rather than just a tool. The interview format stays consistent throughout: a face on a webcam, a lower-third caption naming their role, a few minutes of unscripted opinion, then a cut to the next voice. Out of roughly thirty hours of recorded material, the film assembles its argument less as a thesis than as a chorus, pulling in contradictory answers about whether the network age counts as progress or a new kind of trouble.