Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Werner Herzog guides the film as its narrator and questioner. He starts at UCLA, where the first internet message was sent, and then visits labs, a hacker gathering, a West Virginia town without wireless signals, an internet addiction center, and places that study robots and space travel. The film follows the internet from its early days to a future shaped by artificial intelligence, Mars plans, and machines that may replace human contact. The main conflict is whether connection brings people closer or makes them more alone and less free. The tone is curious, funny, uneasy, and sometimes bleak.

The film's strongest human story follows the Catsouras family after cruel people spread photos of their dead daughter online. Other sections examine gaming addiction, privacy, hackers, surveillance, solar flares, self-driving cars, and the risk of a world that depends on the internet. Experts debate whether robots can think, whether the web can dream, and whether people should leave Earth for Mars. Herzog treats these questions as problems of technology, human behavior, and the future, with no single answer.