A world transformed

摘要

On 29 October 1969, the internet woke up. Scientists in a room at the University of California, Los Angeles, tried to send the word "login" to colleagues at the Stanford Research Institute. But they were only able to transmit two letters before the system crashed: "lo". That haphazard genesis story is where Werner Herzog finds the name for his documentary about how the internet has changed humankind -Lo and Behold. Curiously, the film has been paid for by a US cybersecurity company, and the project, like its subject, is a little bizarre. Herzog, who does not commonly carry a cellphone or have a Facebook account, is described in the press notes as being like "an alien visiting from another planet".