Google și creierul mondial
Ben Lewis / Spania / 2013 / 98 min
The documentary speaks about the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet, and about the dilemmas and dangers involved. In 2002, Google Inc. has started scanning millions of books with the intention of creating a gigantic virtual library, which would contain every book in the world. However, over half of the scanned books were protected by copyright, and authors across the world launched a campaign to stop the project, which culminated in a trial in New York. The representatives of Google claim that the purpose of the project is to create a superior form of intelligence, predicted by H.G.Wells in his 1937 essay " World Brain ", however, the sceptics believe that, their real intentions entirely different.
Despre film
The documentary speaks about the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet, and about the dilemmas and dangers involved. In 2002, Google Inc. has started scanning millions of books with the intention of creating a gigantic virtual library, which would contain every book in the world. However, over half of the scanned books were protected by copyright, and authors across the world launched a campaign to stop the project, which culminated in a trial in New York. The representatives of Google claim that the purpose of the project is to create a superior form of intelligence, predicted by H.G.Wells in his 1937 essay " World Brain ", however, the sceptics believe that, their real intentions entirely different.