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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

When you read a sentence that says, "There are two elephantswalking across the savanna," a...

When you read a sentence that says, "There are two elephants
walking across the savanna," a computer program can tell that the same
thought is going on in your brain, whether you're watching the video
or reading the sentence

Full Transcript

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When you read a sentence that says,
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"There are two elephants walking across the savanna,"
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a computer program can tell that the same thought is going on in your brain,
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whether you're watching the video or reading the sentence.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
01:27:43
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.
There's a universality of the alphabet of human thoughts - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:14
There's a universality of the alphabet of human thought...
The brain has a vocabulary and we're beginning to discover it. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:05
The brain has a vocabulary and we're beginning to disco...
Right now, we need this $2 million machine that weighs 1 6,000lb, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:16
Right now, we need this $2 million machine that weighs 1 6,0...
The energy, the electromagnetic energy, is just sitting there, it's sitting there. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
The energy, the electromagnetic energy, is just sitting ther...
Telepathy is. . .communication across a distance. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
Telepathy is. . .communication across a distance.
Well, we can already go a few millimetres - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
Well, we can already go a few millimetres
You could, essentially, in the not-too-distant future, tweet thoughts. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
You could, essentially, in the not-too-distant future, tweet...
So not type your little tweet, but think it, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:11
So not type your little tweet, but think it,
Could you detect that this woman who is passing by and spots you - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
Could you detect that this woman who is passing by and spots...
Now, that would be an innovation. That would be the. . . - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:05
Now, that would be an innovation. That would be the. . .
Well, l try not to make predictions about anything less than - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
Well, l try not to make predictions about anything less than
But one of the wonderful things about the future - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:10
But one of the wonderful things about the future
Lf you think about predictions about the future as done in the past, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:07
Lf you think about predictions about the future as done in t...
Lt used to be, that when you communicated with someone, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:08
Lt used to be, that when you communicated with someone,
Lt was developed, so that scientists could communicate, scientists like me, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:11
Lt was developed, so that scientists could communicate, scie...
There's a famous cartoon from The New Yorker, - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:12
There's a famous cartoon from The New Yorker,
And it won't matter, but becoming your own filter - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
And it won't matter, but becoming your own filter
The filter isn't provided with you. There's no controls on the internet. - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:06
The filter isn't provided with you. There's no con...
. .the internet is gonna propagate. . . out of control - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
. .the internet is gonna propagate. . . out of control
L think, in the future, one next step from computation to communication - Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 00:09
L think, in the future, one next step from computation to co...