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Networked Society: On the Brink
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Networked Society: On the Brink

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Global connectivity is the subject, traced through interviews with people who helped build it. David Rowan, editor of Wired UK, talks about borderless opportunity and where innovation is heading next. Caterina Fake, who founded Flickr, discusses open business models that let individuals compete without the capital or infrastructure older industries required. Eric Wahlforss, co-founder of SoundCloud, takes the more skeptical position, questioning whether a society this networked is actually getting smarter or just louder, and raising the possibility of a collective "dumbness" hiding behind constant connection. The film moves between these three viewpoints rather than settling on one, using each speaker's own business experience as evidence for their claim. It covers the same ground from multiple angles: how digital tools erase geographic barriers, how they reshape who gets to start a company, and what gets lost when everyone is reachable all the time. The interviews carry the film; there is no narrator smoothing the disagreements between them.