English - Director | May 2, 1961 -
I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it's neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.
Beeban Kidron
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The Internet has crept up on us, and we need to know what it is and start looking at it. We have to decide which bits we want, which bits we don't, and how we're going to use them - and how we're going to put pressure on the people who deliver these goods to deliver what we really want.
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Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.
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I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.
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On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
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I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!
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If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
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The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.
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I'm in the communications business.
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I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.
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The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.
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Sometimes you have to put back in the community.
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