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Google and the World Brain

Technology Documentary hosted by Ben Lewis, published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Storyville series in 2013 - English narration





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Documentary which tells 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. 70 years later the realisation of that dream was under way, as Google scanned millions of books for its Google Books website. However, 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.

A Polar Star Films & B.L.T.V Ltd production.

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* Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4.1
* Video Bitrate: CRF 20
* Video Resolution: 1280x720
* Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
* Audio Codec: HE-AAC
* Audio Bitrate: 128 Kbps ABR 48KHz
* Audio Channels: 2
* Run-Time: 89 mins
* Framerate: 25FPS
* Number of Parts: 1
* Part Size: 1.56 GB
* Source: HDTV
* Encoded by: JungleBoy



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With little presence from Google it never amounts to a well-rounded and complete film. Attempts to jazz up the terribly boring transcript readings devolve into distractingly amateur animation. Director Ben Lewis attempts to establish Google as a Big Brother of villainy, with the starving author struggling to reach out from his heavy foot; but only succeeds in allowing Google to look like the levelheaded innovator being forced to deal with nagging behind-the-times intellectuals.

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Thank you for the upload.
jonda
Cheers
adamcom
Great Doc
Emerson2
There are three types of people in this world. Those that talk about PEOPLE, those the talk about EVENTS, and those that talk about ISSUES. Refreshing to see my torrent friends knowing that issues are what's important. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
kozykoala
skimmed through on vlc and all looks good.will let you know if there are any probs once ive watched fully.many thanks to the uploader
Antignor
Thanks.
It concerns me when so much information is gathered by a couple of organizations, they could easily abuse it. But what even more worries me is when governments that are not really friendly towards the people get (demand) access to all this information.
2013-03-05 21:48
voxu
you make a good point. Here's a nugget:
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass, 1857\n
The information gathered helps towards those ends, its the "find out" part of the quote. Govt's relationship with the governed is, by nature, adversarial. They will take as much as they are ALLOWED to.
2013-04-02 11:38
Antignor
Do not almost all people take as much as they're allowed to? Governments are people and in democracies they are supposed to represent "the people". What my concern is when a more totalitarian government grabs power who do not submit to the the limits set by the people, but have no limits. Many people use social media and post the most detailed private information there. It doesn't matter what they shield of from the public arena with privacy settings when a totalitarian regime gets hold of government and have access to everything.
voxu
A person taking from a person is a bit short sighted.They each have a perception of what's being given and taken.If someone takes exactly as much as I give them, that's my choice.If they ask for more, I can say "no".They don't have the right to take more than that under the aegis of some directive outside of some wrong I've committed and then they have to take me to court.Government has that right and can invoke it under any of a number of Acts. I remember the first time I heard "patriot act";it wasn't explained well at the time but the climate (immediately post 9/11)was such that everyone was scared and "patriotism" would get us through.I was scared; nobody knew what was going on. I went so far as to call my wife and told her to clean out the bank accounts for the cash.It didn't occur to me until about a week after TPA was passed (with record approval)how Orwellian it sounded. It was supposed to be temporary.It's not.It wasn't as broad as it is now.They can listen to phone calls, read email, bug your home, and let's not forget about possible drones.If a person takes something from you, you can get it back.When you GIVE a standing Gov't power, wresting it back from them is a near impossibility.They don't GIVE rights or power back to the governed.Another small point: Totalitarianism is not a matter of degrees.You're right about social media, it's a feast of info to the point that it can become a predictor of intent.I haven't even mentioned corporate involvement.Here's a book:
Antignor
I don't mean stealing but when the laws allows to take, then many people (though there will always be exceptions) will take what is allowed. See the extravagant "wages" and bonuses in modern day business.
And totalitarianism is not black and white I think. It can creep into societies and governments, that's how people don't see it coming in many cases, TPA being an example of that. But big-corporations can be pretty totalitarian as well when they decide and "buy" politicians and create the laws. Just see what the big media corpses are doing with copyright laws, the food industry with their junk food and Monsanto with genetic manipulated crops or big pharma that owns the cures for diseases and genetic mutations in your DNA.They own the world because they have the money and they're not all there just for our good, they only want more money and with more money comes more power.
2013-04-03 17:15
voxu
I can agree with you on many points.A totalitarian gov't doesn't just "happen".Its a lot like water, in that it moves along the path of LEAST resistance.Every gain it makes is a loss to the whole.Any standing gov't has ONE TASK, only one: To protect the rights and freedoms of its constituents.You have probably heard the quote:"The price of freedom is vigilance".I still,12 years later,shudder when I think how easily TPA passed and how it seemed like a warm blanket.It was reactionary legislation that the electorate called for in the wake of 9/11.The gov't answered the call;then twisted it.We fell asleep.It's been around long enough now as to be inured in our mindset.My son was 8 yrs old when it passed.He doesn't know a world w/o it.I've taken pains to make sure he "listens" what policy makers say, but also "hears" what they're not.He's a better person than me.That is something I take any pride I have, in.If he sees an issue important to him he takes a stand.Example: He helped stop his school district from enacting school uniforms.Only b/c the clothing doesn't change a kid's "want" to learn.If the want isn't there they won't learn in a shirt and tie any better than they will in baggy jeans.I digress; I defined what a gov'ts job is.Our problem is that our legislators have sought to protect themselves and their machinery.Then couch those designs as necessary to protect the people.
Corporate wages, where to start.That's actually pretty simple.In the past companies were co-owned by the suits and the workers.There was no 4000% wage disparity b/w CEO and janitor.Co's recognized the value of all employees, as people who had needs to fulfill.The shift came when suits decided that the employees were assets that had intrinsic value replaceable by something(one)who would work for less.Free-market capitalism at work.The suits,whose job it was to fatten the bottom-line then overvalued their own work b/c they made those decisions.They had no hand in the product or service that defined that line.Only the path to get there.Workers familiar with the atmosphere of creating and delivering the product, not completely divorced from it in sanitized offices are clearly (from a moral AND ethical standpoint)better equipped.The problem is that all companies have to make that decision at once.Those that don't will die on the vine because they can't compete.It's ugly man.Beyond plastic surgery.Change comes from the bottom, always has.The irony hasn't escaped me that I don't suffer.I mean I'm answering through my computer connected to a 50' TV,my fridge is full, and I'm planning a vacation to Yosemite this summer.I'm an example of the problem,and worse;I know it.\n
Another piece of reading The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (saw it coming).or a satire of our form of gov't and corporate thinking: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (absolutely hilarious).
2013-04-03 20:59
Antignor
Freedom also comes with responsibility, that's what many people in all ranks of society forget. Power hungry people will use fear to restrict freedoms for others so they gain more freedom for themselves. I think it isn't that people fell asleep, quite contrary, but the fear-hormones took over from rational thinking. That alongside with rhetorical references to "patriotism" and such and this way it was not that hard to frame the people to lure them into the Iraq war and accept TPA. It's quite ironic that by making people believe they will loose their freedoms they accept policies that harm their freedoms.
I'm in favor of the capitalist system. It encourages innovation. But there need to be rules, so the current free-market way of capitalism is really dangerous. Business is a game that needs rules just like any other game in order to keep it fair. But it's hard to make up rules that will restrict they greedy bunch from grabbing whatever they can as they will always find mazes or ways around the rules. Legislation is always made in hindsight and no law is perfect when it involves complex systems like business and economics. I don't know of any other way to get out of it than that the CEO's start to realize that they can make a very nice living off $500.000 annually as well and tat they actually don't need 10 million, especially when they do not own the company themselves and do not put their own or their families money at risk. The only thing they might be sensitive for is when the majority of the people start to name and shame them, in stead of actually encouraging such greedy attitudes by seeing the greedy bunch as heroes of "The American Way".\n
And I don't think everybody having computer and internet connection, owning a TV (even when it's larger than you'd actually need) and enjoying a holiday every year is to blame for any economic or any moral wrongdoing (as long as you eat most of what you put in your fridge). Actually you are spending your money, which is what keeps economies running. The ones to blame are those that accumulate way more money than they will ever spend or what would be necessary for normal savings or buying a decent house and have a decent life and do everything to get more and manipulate legislators into accepting the laws they propose by bribes and threats only to be able to grab ever more and more. It's the accumulation of money that makes economies grind to a squeaking halt, not the spending of it.
2013-04-05 17:33
voxu
Wow, been a minute.
I apologize for the delay.CEO's making $10mil, like you said, totally ridiculous.The cure: FLAT TAX, or better yet Hall–Rabushka flat tax (a tax system based on consumption as opposed to accumulation, or some hybrid of the two. Oh yeah,and no lobbyists. L8r
2013-05-17 00:27
wooter80
If you think America is A democracy you are wrong. The government is mostly here to support business agenda's anymore. The American government uses google to "spy" on Americans, but not to catch bad guys. They are looking for marketing info for advertisement and news media. They are using our info to keep us ignorant of what is really going on. It's not hard to figure it out if you follow the money.