Project Detail

Google and the World Brain

Name: Google and the World Brain
Director: Ben Lewis
Released: 2013
Duration: 89 mins

Synopsis

This is the story of the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet. In 2002 Google began to scan millions of books in an effort to create a giant global library, containing every book in existence. They had an even greater purpose – to create a higher form of intelligence, (similar to what HG Wells had predicted in his essay "World Brain" as early as in 1937). But over half the books Google scanned were in copyright, and authors across the world launched a campaign to stop Google, which climaxed in a New York courtroom in 2011. A film about the dreams, dilemmas and dangers of the Internet.

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Details

Year: 2013
Type of project: Features
Running time: 89 mins
Director: Ben Lewis
Producer: Viva Van Loock, Bettina Walter
Executive Producer: Carles Brugueras, Madeleine Sheahan
Editor: Simon Barker
Sound: Carlos Jiménez
Composer: Lucas Ariel Vallejos

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Polar Star Films

Rosselló 320 Local 1
Barcelona
Spain
Tel: +34 932 00 47 77
Fax: +34 932 00 47 87

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