Des millions de personnes disséminées de par le monde et déçues de la manière dont celui-ci évolue décident de s'unir. Toutes guidées par le même désir d'améliorer les choses, de ne plus subir l'actualité sans pouvoir réagir. Par le biais d'Internet, elles créent le premier Pays virtuel : 8th Wonderland. Chaque semaine, tous ses habitants votent par référendum une motion différente... Mais que se passerait-il si les motions de 8th Wonderland devenaient petit à petit plus réactionnaires ? Si sa manière d'agir se rapprochait lentement mais sûrement d'un comportement terroriste ? De nombreuses personnes et Nations pourraient chercher à faire disparaître ce pays qui n'est pas comme les autres. Une décision qui pourrait être complexe à mettre en œuvre, car ce pays n'est pas un territoire géographique ni une nation homogène.
A man walks over to a trash can, puts a 1980s-era television by it, and leaves. A few seconds go by, then the TV turns on and shows colored bars. An 8-bit picture of a bomb shows up and the simulated fuse runs out, causing the TV screen to shatter, releasing a cloud of pixels (illustrated as voxels because of the three-dimensionality of the scene). The pixels fly over to New York City and head in various directions.
Computer experts around the world strive towards the development of intelligent robots. Pioneers like Raymond Kurzweil and Hiroshi Ishiguro dream of fashioning intelligent machines that will equal their human creators. In this potential reality, man and machine merge as a single unity. Rejecting evolution's biological shackles tantalisingly dangles the promise of eternal life for those bold enough to seize it. But others, like Joseph Weizenbaum, counterattack against society's limitless faith in the redemptive powers of technology, questioning the prevailing discourses on new technologies and their ethical relationships to human life. The film delves into a world where computer technology, robotics, biology, neuroscience, and developmental psychology merge, and features roboticists in their laboratories in Japan, the USA, Italy and Germany.
The movie opens with a scene of a young woman running from pursuers in the streets of Istanbul. She is captured and imprisoned, accused of various crimes, and questioned by a doctor. Desperate to save herself, she starts her story in a series of flashbacks.
Steal This Film est une série de films documentant le mouvement contre la propriété intellectuelle. La première partie, produite en Suède et sortie en 2006, tient compte d'acteurs de la culture suédoise du piratage tels The Pirate Bay, Parti pirate suédois et Piratbyrån.
In the 1980s, video games were synonymous with arcades, and games were bringing in enough quarters to fill the Rose Bowl. This led Iowa entrepreneur Walter Day (with the support of various game manufacturers) to declare himself the sole authority on high scores. In 1982, Day launched his Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard. Teenage superstars came from all over North America to join Walter in a Life magazine feature spread, which recognized them as video game world champions. This led to the nationally televised 1982 Video Game World Championships, a touring National Video Game Team, and the promise of fame, fortune and groupies.
Former witch-hunter Abner Lundberg (Lance Henriksen) is forced to come back to fight his old nemesis, a century-old dangerous witch out on the prowl again. This time, Lundberg joins forces with Edward Carnby (Rick Yune), who attempt to track down the dangerous witch Elisabeth Dexter (Allison Lange).
An alien artifact, identified as a possible "second Marker", is discovered on the planet Aegis VII. The Church of Unitology uses its influence to send the mining ship USG Ishimura to retrieve this holy relic.