But over half those books were still in
copyright, and authors across the world launched a campaign to stop
them, climaxing in a New York courtroom in 2011. A film about the dreams, dilemmas and dangers of the Internet, set in spectacular locations in China, USA, Europe and Latin America…..
Google and the World Brain Online Live
Director:
Ben Lewis
Stars:
Brendan Price, Nicolas Chapman, Molly Malcolm |
Storyline
The story of the most ambitious project ever
conceived on the Internet, and the people who tried to stop it. In 1937
HG Wells predicted the creation of the “World Brain”, a giant global
library that contained all human knowledge which would lead to a new
form of higher intelligence. Seventy year later the realization of that
dream was underway, as Google scanned millions and millions of books for
its Google Books website.
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