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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Computers actually had a hardware failure that made it believe that it could geta message...

computers actually had a hardware failure that made it believe that it could get
a message to some place in negative time

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computers actually had a hardware failure
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that made it believe that it could get a message to some place in negative time.
Duration
10 seconds
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23
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:17
Uploaded
Nov 02, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Saville Productions

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Movie Summary

Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
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...