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  • Lo And Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

    Behold: the fallacy of “techo-inevitabilism”

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on July 16, 2021 by William Manson (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Jul 19, 2021)

    Director Werner Herzog’s documentary ‘Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World’ (2016) begins with “Internet pioneer” Leonard Kleinrock, who welcomes us into the, yes, actual laboratory where it was “born”! To Wagnerian strains in the soundtrack, Kleinrock complacently calls the place “a holy shrine”–quite a revealing phrase for this acolyte of possibly the last of the false religions.