Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
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- TriviaHerzog says Elon Musk was very shy on camera, sometimes pausing for minutes at a time before replying to Werner Herzog's questions.
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Professor Leonard Kleinrock: [Recalling the first internet message] Now, what was that first message? Many people don't know this.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: All we wanted to do was log in from our computer to a computer 400 miles to the north up at Stanford Research Institute.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: To log in, you have to type "L O G" and that machine was smart enough to type the "I N".
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: To make sure this was happening properly, we had our programmer and the programmer up north connected by a telephone handset, just to make sure it was going correctly.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: So Charlie typed the "L"
[Mimicking the conversation over the telephone handset]
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: and said "You get the 'L'?"
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: Bill said, "Yup, got the L."
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: Typed 'O'.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: "You get the 'O'?"
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: "Yup, got the 'O'."
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: Typed in the 'G' and crash! The SRI computer crashed.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: So the first message ever on the internet was "LO", as in "lo and behold". We couldn't have asked for a more succinct, more powerful, more prophetic message than "LO".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Conan: Cobie Smulders/Werner Herzog/Lindsey Stirling (2016)
- SoundtracksDas Rheingold: Vorspiel
Composed by Richard Wagner
Performed by Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Simone Young
Courtesy of Naxos of America
Herzog approaches the internet as if he is a stranger to it, leading to some very naive questions to the highly educated people he is interviewing. They are made to answer different questions than they are used to, and this leads to different answers. You can see Elon Musk being pulled out of his element by Herzog volunteering to go to mars.
Herzog has a gift of finding the peculiar in people and situations. I am a bit worried that some of the people he is interviewing is not aware of how he will present them. I'm sure Herzog does it with love, but it's still obvious that he pick moments in the interviews where they are at their most goofy.
When it comes to the subject itself, and it's interesting (though disjointed) exploration of the future of the internet and the connected world, but like any essay, it doesn't really answer any questions.
- peefyn
- Jan 2, 2017
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- Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $594,912
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $114,273
- Aug 21, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $765,796
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1