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PressPausePlay: Art and Creativity in the Digital Age

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunites.
But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity?
This is [...]

January 15, 2012 Digital Revolution, Featured Slider 0 Comments

On The Brink Of A Networked Society

In On The Brink we discuss the past, present and future of connectivity with a mix of people including David Rowan, chief editor of Wired UK; Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr; and Eric Wahlforss, the co-founder of Soundcloud. Each of the interviewees discusses the emerging opportunities being enabled by technology as we enter the Networked [...]

November 5, 2011 Digital Revolution 0 Comments

Butterflies: A Documentary About YouTube

Butterflies is a feature documentary film following the lives of six young people that are prominent ‘weblebrities’ on the video site YouTube. The film explores the new media, its power and its future. Will the Internet overcome traditional media? Will new media and traditional media merge?

September 14, 2011 Digital Revolution 0 Comments

Us Now: Social Media and Mass Collaboration

In a world in which information is like air, what happens to power?
Us Now is a social media documentary about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet. New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organization. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this [...]

February 5, 2011 Digital Revolution 1 Comment

Steve Jobs of Apple Featured on Bloomberg Game Changers

The name Steve Jobs is synonymous with innovation and technology. Bloomberg profiles this enigmatic and secretive character and how he co-founded Apple Computer, got fired by the company’s corporate board in 1985 and then returned in 1996 to transform the company.
Today, Apple is the biggest technology company in the world by stock market valuation and [...]

November 26, 2010 Digital Revolution 0 Comments

Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google Featured on Bloomberg Game Changers

The inside story of how two Stanford Ph.d students Sergey Brin and Larry Page created the search engine empire Google.

November 26, 2010 Digital Revolution 0 Comments

RIP: A Remix Manifesto

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl [...]

October 3, 2010 Digital Revolution 0 Comments

The World According To Google

What if all the world’s information would be available and easy to find? What if all the news, all books, all texts, photographs and videos would be collected in one place, and made available, always and everywhere?
This is the goal of Google, and the company seems to be realising its core mission at an amazing [...]

August 15, 2010 Digital Revolution 1 Comment

Download: The True Story of the Internet

Download: The True Story of the Internet is about a revolution — the technological, cultural, commercial and social revolution that has radically changed our lives. And for the first time on television, we hear how it happened from the men and women who made it possible.
From the founders of eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, Netscape, Google and [...]

July 24, 2010 Digital Revolution 0 Comments

The Global Brain

This fascinating documentary was released in 1983 just as the personal computer revolution was beginning. Is the Internet part of humanity’s evolution to higher consciousness?
The Global Brain is a metaphor for the worldwide intelligent network formed by people together with the information and communication technologies that connect them into an “organic” whole. As the Internet [...]

June 28, 2010 Digital Revolution 0 Comments

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