Jaron Lanier

Conceived as an electronic road movie, this documentary investigates cutting edge technologies and their influence on our culture as we approach the 21st century. It takes off from the idea that mankind's effort to tap the power of Nature has been so successful that a new world is suddenly emerging,an artificial reality. Virtual Reality, digital and biotechnology, plastic surgery and mood-altering drugs promise seemingly unlimited powers to our bodies, and our selves...

Filmmakers Scott Glosserman and Nic Hill engagingly explore the history and cultural implications of one of the most traveled and referenced sites on the Internet, Wikipedia. (indb)

The most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet: Google's master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop them. Google say they are building a library for mankind, but they also have other intentions.

This documentary talks about the potential dangers of the application, man, some of our current and future technologies. The human being he will merge with machines? The tension between, on the one hand, various incentives that lead some to desire a merger with the machine and, secondly, the resistance that such a merger may create. (neohumanitas.org)

The filmmaker engages futurists, scientists, scholars, anti-technology advocates and even Ted Kaczynski, aka the 'Unabomber,' to uncover a big-picture view of our ongoing relationship to technology. These interviews explore issues like: What is the origin of technology? Is technology 'neutral' or does is have an 'intent?' In a world of high technology, what is value of living things? (welcometothemachinemovie.com)

This documentary presents a few individuals for whom the Internet has become a way to connect with like-minded souls in surprising ways: a cyber punk based on an anti-aircraft rig in the English Channel who operates a rogue Web server, a monk developing "wireless prayer technology," a "gamer" who re-creates himself in an online game, a retired couple living in an Internet-controlled seniors' complex and a divorcée who exchanges vows online with a man she's never met. (nfb)

Never before have a handful of tech designers had such control over the way billions of us think, act, and live. Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media platforms are reprogramming society by exposing the other side of your screen. (imdb)