Sundance 2013: Trailer for Documentary GOOGLE AND THE WORLD BRAIN
We're gearing up for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, which begins next week in Park City, Utah. I'd put Sundance as my single favorite film-related event of the year, and GeekTyrant is going to be there in full force this year bringing you written and video reviews, video blogs, and all sorts of coverage of the best the fest has to offer.
One of the movies that is playing there is a documentary called Google and the World Brain, and it's about Google's quest to archive every piece of learned information that humanity has achieved. They began scanning millions of books, but copyright issues forced this quiet attempt into the limelight. Check it out below:
Here's the official synopsis, from the Sundance 2013 website:
The goal of accumulating all human knowledge in one repository has been a dream since ancient times. Only recently, however, has that dream become a reality. Quietly and behind closed doors, Google has been executing a project to scan and digitize every printed word on the planet. Working with the world’s most prestigious libraries, the webmasters