Kino Rudolfinum III
XGalerie Rudolfinum
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Reveries of the Connected World (Werner Herzog)
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The last of Werner Herzog’s films explores the existential level of the impact of the Internet, AI, advanced robotics and the Internet of Things on our lived experience.
The documentary film Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, is a tangle of interviews by leading technology developers pointing to a disorientation in a software-oriented world. Herzog explores how the future will look alongside fast-evolving and adapting programmes and devices, within a perspective on the technology development and its past. The film includes interviews with leaders from the world of new technologies, such as Bob Kahn, Elon Musk, Sebastian Thrun, and Ted Nelson.
Jonathan Ledgard
is a leading thinker on risk, nature, and technology in near future Africa, journalist (since 1998, frontline foreign and war correspondent for The Economist) and novelist. He is founder of the new Rossums studio and director of a future Africa initiative at EPFL in Switzerland. He was a long-time Africa correspondent of The Economist. He leads the Redline group which seeks to build droneports and cargo drone lines in Africa. His second novel, Submergence, is presently being adapted for Hollywood by Wim Wenders. He has been involved in art collaborations with Olafur Eliasson, Tomas Saraceno, Wim Wenders, Design Museum, Foster & Partners, The Norman Foster Foundation, Art Basel, Engadin Art Talks, and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
