[SIGCIS-Members] Lo and Behold, new movie

[Yarden Katz]

Thanks to Paul for pointing out this film. I watched it and wrote my
thoughts to Paul off-list (briefly, didn't regret watching it, but thought
it had many issues and that Gibney's "Zero Days" did a better job of
covering similar questions.) I'm happy to discuss it further with anyone
who's interested.

On a loosely related note, are there good documentary films you'd recommend
about the origin and influence of cybernetics? There are good books on
this, like Eden Medina's book that was discussed here before, or David
Mindell's. Are there great documentaries too?

Yarden

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Ceruzzi, Paul <CeruzziP at si.edu> wrote:

> There have been a lot of movies or television shows about computing
> history lately: "The Imitation Game," "The Social Network," et al. I found
> most of them disappointing. Last week I saw "Lo and Behold," a documentary
> about the Internet by Werner Herzog.  I recommend it. I have quibbles about
> some of the history in it, including the origin of the movie's title, but
> it is well worth seeing. If anyone wants to discuss it, we can do that
> off-line, unless you think a discussion is of general interest.
>
> Paul Ceruzzi
> ceruzzip at si.edu
> 202-633-2414
>
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