Yesterday America’s renowned independent film festival, Sundance announced that Google and the World Brain competes in the Official Selection for its coming edition in January 2013!

The documentary is a daring and critical analysis of the story of Google’s most ambitious project, Google Books, in which Google set out to scan all books ever written by mankind. Their intention was to unite all the world’s knowledge with the final goal of creating a form of higher intelligence. Google and the World Brain is a film about the dreams, the dilemmas and the dangers of the Internet. It was shot in world’s most amazing libraries in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

With Google and the World Brain Ben Lewis unites theorists, critics and the key players in the realm of the Internet and new technologies. including Jaron Lanier, Evgeny Morozov, Clay Shirky and Laurence Lessig, opening a polemical dialogue about the future of knowledge and information-sharing on the Internet. Lewis also interviewed some of today’s most outstanding librarians – Robert Darnton (Harvard) and Jean-Noel Jeanneney (National Library of France) and he reveals the extraordinary stories of the writers that struggled against Google’s book scanning.

Official web of the film www.worldbrainthefilm.com