Google and The World Brain

Ben Lewis' Google and The World Brain (US, 2012) - The story of the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet. In 2002 Google began to scan millions of books in an effort to create a giant global library, containing every book in existence. They had an even greater purpose - to create a higher form of intelligence, something that HG Wells had predicted in his 1937 essay "World Brain". But over half the books Google scanned were in copyright, and authors across the world launched a campaign to stop Google, which climaxed in a New York courtroom in 2011. A film about the dreams, dilemmas and dangers of the Internet. / AW: When Google try to digitize all books ever existed in the world to create the world brain, many people from around the world starts to weigh in the positive and the negative aspect of it. 2013SANF, 2013SUN. RATING: 7