New Trailer for Werner Herzog Sundance Doc 'Connected World' Both Ominous and Euphoric

Want to compose tweets with your mind alone? It’s going to be possible — and sooner than you’d think. A new film by renowned documentarian Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) explores our quickly evolving interconnected lives. Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World premieres Monday at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. And the new trailer (above) offers more hints at what’s in store, including the idea that artificial intelligence could already be spontaneously evolving on the Internet undetected.

Through Herzog’s trademark narration, the film presents a fresh vantage point on both impending doom and astonishing discoveries resulting from our online linkage. The filmmaker speaks with victims of Internet harassment, addiction, and wireless radiation, while also gaining the perspective of top robotics experts and intellectuals — all to offer a complex picture of our advancing Internet age that promises to be both playful and chilling.