In the past few years I’ve seen an increase of documentaries that sit down their audience to demystify how computers work. Dylan Reibling’s The End of the Internet is largely about decentralization efforts around the globe, but chants ‘cloud computing’ to illustrate its obfuscation of reality. That in spite of graceful terms, the information largely flows through a bunch of cables, susceptible to government valves and hungry sharks alike. Amanda Kramer’s So Unreal is more focused on the psychic imprint of technology and its negative feedback loop. How the public’s understanding of cyberspace is overwhelmingly informed by fantasies of The
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