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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

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Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
Director
Werner Herzog
Year
2016
Genre
documentary
Box Office
$594,912
Production
Saville Productions
Awards
2 wins & 1 nomination
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WERNER HERZOG: This is the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
WERNER HERZOG: This is the campus of the University of Calif...
Today, no one of the students is aware that this is ground zero - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:12
Today, no one of the students is aware that this is ground z...
One of the science buildings here is considered - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
One of the science buildings here is considered
This picture of some of the scientists involved was taken at this very moment. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
This picture of some of the scientists involved was taken at...
The corridors here look repulsive - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:13
The corridors here look repulsive
Let's enter this very special place - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:04
Let's enter this very special place
Lt's a holy place, and we've just come back to 1 969, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
Lt's a holy place, and we've just come back to 1 9...
That machine over there is the first piece - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
That machine over there is the first piece
Lt's a mini computer, which we now call "a packet switch". This is a. . . - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
Lt's a mini computer, which we now call "a packet ...
You can't break it - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
You can't break it
This particular machine is so ugly on the inside - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
This particular machine is so ugly on the inside
Lt has a unique odour. (Sniffs) - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
Lt has a unique odour. (Sniffs)
. .CPU, logic units, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
. .CPU, logic units,
This machine served as the first node of the internet for decades. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
This machine served as the first node of the internet for de...
And it was from here that the first message was sent - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
And it was from here that the first message was sent
On October 29th, 1 969, at 1 0:30 at night, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:13
On October 29th, 1 969, at 1 0:30 at night,
Lt's very much like when, on Columbus's ship, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
Lt's very much like when, on Columbus's ship,
. .he noticed it was and he basically made an entry saying, "We spotted land." - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:11
. .he noticed it was and he basically made an entry saying, ...
All we wanted to do was log in from our computer - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:10
All we wanted to do was log in from our computer
Now, to make sure this was happening properly, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:12
Now, to make sure this was happening properly,
So, Charlie typed the "L" and he said, "You get the L?" - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:12
So, Charlie typed the "L" and he said, "You g...
L've been involved with the internet, really, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
L've been involved with the internet, really,
There are a number of things that would characterise that involvement. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
There are a number of things that would characterise that in...
Essentially, the system designer of the ARPANET, the very first packet net. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
Essentially, the system designer of the ARPANET, the very fi...
L joined DARPA in the early 1 970s and started two other networking programs, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:14
L joined DARPA in the early 1 970s and started two other net...
And, uh, the essential elements there - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:13
And, uh, the essential elements there
WERNER: Vint Cerf, here in 1973, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:12
WERNER: Vint Cerf, here in 1973,
For this, they received - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
For this, they received
Lmagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
Lmagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee,
1 7 storeys up, in his fashionable North Beach apartment, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
1 7 storeys up, in his fashionable North Beach apartment,
Meanwhile, across town, in this less-than-fashionable cubby-hole - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:10
Meanwhile, across town, in this less-than-fashionable cubby-...
When the telephone connection between these two terminals is made, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:11
When the telephone connection between these two terminals is...
Of the estimated 2,000 to 3,000 home-computer owners in the Bay Area, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
Of the estimated 2,000 to 3,000 home-computer owners in the ...
WERNER: This report, considering the numbers of internet users today, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
WERNER: This report, considering the numbers of internet use...
No-one at that time had a clue about the explosion of information technology. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
No-one at that time had a clue about the explosion of inform...
Today, if you were to burn CDs of the worldwide data flow for one single day - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:14
Today, if you were to burn CDs of the worldwide data flow fo...
The internet is already permeating everything. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
The internet is already permeating everything.
Even on the lnternational Space Station - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
Even on the lnternational Space Station
L still have a copy of the phone directory from the late 1 970s - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:15
L still have a copy of the phone directory from the late 1 9...
Actually, it had it twice, because it had it once sorted by their email address - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
Actually, it had it twice, because it had it once sorted by ...
So, if you had a problem with anybody, you could look them up, you could find them. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
So, if you had a problem with anybody, you could look them u...
You could find who the actual person was associated with that email address. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
You could find who the actual person was associated with tha...
And, still today, l thumb through that - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
And, still today, l thumb through that
For example, there were two other Dannys on the internet - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
For example, there were two other Dannys on the internet
Of course, now, you can't even comprehend the idea - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
Of course, now, you can't even comprehend the idea
The directory might be some 72 miles thick. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:05
The directory might be some 72 miles thick.
. .should be the traffic on the ith channel over the speed of the ith channel, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
. .should be the traffic on the ith channel over the speed o...
And you split it, according to the square root of the traffic on that channel, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:11
And you split it, according to the square root of the traffi...
DANNY HlLLlS: The way that the internet works, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
DANNY HlLLlS: The way that the internet works,
Ln the early days of the protocol, there was a kind of a bug and one of the. . . - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
Ln the early days of the protocol, there was a kind of a bug...
Computers actually had a hardware failure - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:10
Computers actually had a hardware failure
So, of course, every message in the internet - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:10
So, of course, every message in the internet
. .required to send the message and so all the messages in the internet - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:10
. .required to send the message and so all the messages in t...
The mean response time now will look like this. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:05
The mean response time now will look like this.
Lt will be equal to the average path length - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:14
Lt will be equal to the average path length
Whatever that equation means, it tells you what the minimum response time will be - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
Whatever that equation means, it tells you what the minimum ...
The computer was claiming that it could deliver the message - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
The computer was claiming that it could deliver the message
So, if you had a Post Office like that, of course you would use it. Right? - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
So, if you had a Post Office like that, of course you would ...
This was a simplified, but exact model, at the time. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:05
This was a simplified, but exact model, at the time.
Now we have other aspects of it, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
Now we have other aspects of it,
And one of the things we found, surprisingly, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
And one of the things we found, surprisingly,
WERNER: Like a gambling casino - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
WERNER: Like a gambling casino
Very much so. You've articulated what we call "the law of large numbers". - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
Very much so. You've articulated what we call "the...
The law of large numbers says that a large population of unpredictable players - - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:13
The law of large numbers says that a large population of unp...
And, therefore, we can predict the performance of a network when it's large. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
And, therefore, we can predict the performance of a network ...
The underlying technology has scaled by a factor of a million - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:14
The underlying technology has scaled by a factor of a millio...
Nothing in the history of mankind has ever worked - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
Nothing in the history of mankind has ever worked
WERNER: Back to the very early times, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
WERNER: Back to the very early times,
Ln the early '60s, many years before the first Apple personal computer, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:13
Ln the early '60s, many years before the first Apple pe...
The web, as we know it, took a different route, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
The web, as we know it, took a different route,
TED NELSON: lt was an experience of water and interconnection. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:05
TED NELSON: lt was an experience of water and interconnectio...
So l must have been five years old and l was trailing my hand in the water. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
So l must have been five years old and l was trailing my han...
And l thought about how the water was moving around my fingers, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
And l thought about how the water was moving around my finge...
And that changing system of relationships, where everything was kind of similar, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:14
And that changing system of relationships, where everything ...
And just generalising that to the entire universe, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:14
And just generalising that to the entire universe,
And. . . So, interconnection and expressing that interconnection - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
And. . . So, interconnection and expressing that interconnec...
And all my computer work has been about expressing and representing - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:10
And all my computer work has been about expressing and repre...
And writing is the process of reducing - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
And writing is the process of reducing
This is a wrongful compression of what should spread out. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
This is a wrongful compression of what should spread out.
Ln today's computers, they betrayed that, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
Ln today's computers, they betrayed that,
They changed the meanings of the words "cut" and "paste" - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
They changed the meanings of the words "cut" and &...
So a guy named Larry Tessler, whom l consider to be a good friend, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
So a guy named Larry Tessler, whom l consider to be a good f...
L consider that a crime against humanity, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
L consider that a crime against humanity,
Ln any case, this is the problem of interconnection and representation - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
Ln any case, this is the problem of interconnection and repr...
So here we have a parallel presentation, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
So here we have a parallel presentation,
"ln the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." And where is that from? - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:05
"ln the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth...
"Adam and Lilith immediately began to fight." - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
"Adam and Lilith immediately began to fight."
And so, as we pull back, we can see successive pages coming up - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:11
And so, as we pull back, we can see successive pages coming ...
WERNER: His vision of links never materialised. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:05
WERNER: His vision of links never materialised.
By some, he was labelled insane for clinging on. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:05
By some, he was labelled insane for clinging on.
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Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.

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Director: Werner Herzog
Writer: Werner Herzog
Production: Saville Productions
Genre: documentary
Year: 2016
MetaScore: 76/100
ImdbRating: 7.0
BoxOffice: $594,912
Released: 19 Aug 2016
Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination
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