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The Net (2003)

The Net (2003)

Documentary
Release Date: 2003, October 1
Directors: Lutz Dammbeck
Countries: Germany
Production: ARTE, Lutz Dammbeck Filmproduktion, SWR
Cast: Norbert Wiener, Eva Mattes, Timothy Leary, Tom Vogt, Ken Kesey, Stewart Brand, Heinz von Foerster, Ted Kaczynski, John Brockman, Robert W. Taylor, Butch Gehring, Chris Waits

Overview:

Explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th century web of technology—a system that he grew to oppose. A marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, this insightful documentary combines speculative travelogue and investigative journalism to trace contrasting countercultural responses to the cybernetic revolution.

Keywords:

cybernetics central intelligence agency (cia) internet harvard university utopia lsd eco-terrorism art authoritarianism new world order computer technology technological singularity mk ultra unabomber metaphysics systems theory