Die gesamte USA wird von einem bisher unvorstellbaren Akt des Terrorismus bedroht, der sich innovativster Techniken bedient und mittels Computerkraft das Land ins Chaos zu stürzen vermag. Die IT-Infrastruktur des Landes wird komplett außer Kraft gesetzt, Kommunikation und Bankwesen liegen lahm und die überraschten Behörden wissen zunächst nichts entgegen zu setzen. Nur ein Mann kann den Terror aufhalten: Der New Yorker Polizist John McClane hält nichts von modernem Schnickschnack und macht sich auf seine eigene Art auf die Jagd nach dem Drahtzieher des spektakulären Coups. Unterstützt wird er dabei von dem jungen Greg, den McClane eigentlich nur von New Jersey nach Washington bringen sollte. Doch mal wieder ist der alte Haudegen zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort.
This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
A very human tech doc, uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of workers from around the world for companies including Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo. From delivering food and driving ride shares to tagging images for AI, millions of people around the world are finding work task by task online. The gig economy is worth over 5 trillion USD globally, and growing. And yet the stories of the workers behind this tech revolution have gone largely neglected. Who are the people in this shadow workforce? It brings their stories into the light. Lured by the promise of flexible work hours, independence, and control over time and money, workers from around the world have found a very different reality. Work conditions are often dangerous, pay often changes without notice, and workers can effectively be fired through deactivation or a bad rating. Through an engaging global cast of characters, it reveals how the magic of technology we are being sold might not be magic at all.
1194D is originally a tweak of 115C8, one of the “Algorithmic Creature” series based on recursive triangle subdivision. The idea and complexity of the work started to go beyond the initial expectation after it was decided to experiment with multiple “creatures” co-existing within the environment.