How The Conversation Predicted Our Surveillance Society 50 Years Ago
Episode 58 min 48s

How The Conversation Predicted Our Surveillance Society 50 Years Ago

Perhaps no film captures the paranoia and anxiety of the 1970s better than The Conversation, Francis Ford Copolla's masterpiece about reclusive surveillance expert Harry Caul, a man who it's safe to say has some demons. Decades before we all agreed to carry tracking and recording devices in our pockets, The Conversation shows us just how invasive and damaging technology can be.

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