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Offline is the New Luxury

Click above to watch Offline is The New Luxury, a documentary directed by Bregtje van der Haak for Dutch television (English-language voiceover has been substituted in the above version). The documentary explores the sometimes startling extent to which governments and tech companies are going to get every corner of the globe “connected,” i.e., reachable by wifi or wireless data signals. The show also explores “unwired landscapes”—those remote places that are as yet inaccessible to the web.