It’s Seattle International Film Festival week at the moment and one of the movies doing the rounds is We Live in Public, a documentary about Social Media and how things get out of control. Here’s the lowdown.
“Ondi Timoner is the first and only two time Grand Jury Prize winner in Sundance history, and her latest-winning film is called We Live In Public, the story of the Internet’s revolutionary impact on human interaction as told through the eyes of internet pioneer and visionary Josh Harris. As far back as the early 90s, Harris predicted a future dominated by life online and created the companies that were direct predecessors to MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. The tale turns ugly when his underground NYC bunker housing dozens of permanent “citizens” and outfitted with hundreds of surveillance cameras is busted by FEMA as a millennial cult — Harris decides to take the experiment a step further and in doing so becomes a media casualty.”
In the future, will we sacrifice privacy for our longing to be connected and have recognition? Inevitably there will be those who will and those who won’t what is more clear is that privacy - and a user’s ability to configure who sees what about their personal information – is soon to become a killer app for the social web.
Check out the movie’s website: http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/