In the 1995 film The Net, fifteen years before Mark Zuckerberg would complain about not having enough friends in The Social Network, computer analyst “Angela Bennett” races against the clock to stop a (different) megalomaniac from amassing all the world’s personal information. All of it, even the pizza you order at Pizza.net.
As we learn in the trailer above: “Every trace of our existence is computerized. Everything about us in encoded somewhere on a complex network of information.” And “Angela Bennett” is going to do something about it!
92YTribeca screens The Netthis Friday, February 11, part of the Beer Goggles series. Before the screening there will be trivia and prizes too, so get there early!
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