Wall Street, 1979. A documentary filmmaker, David Hoffman, roams the streets of New York collecting opinions, impressions, and associations about the new normality that was then underway. About the “information age”.
Computers had just taken their first steps in a few specific workplaces; the internet was still the ARPANET of the American Department of Defense, relatively unknown. Telecommunications consisted of landline phones and the first emerging first-generation 1G mobile phones, analog signal devices that launched that year in Japan. A camera on the street was something like a UFO—you can see it in the expressions of passersby.
A society that was changing, making its first contacts with the wonderful world of new technologies; unable to hide its awkwardness. A primitive wonder was accompanied by doubts and concerns, as the old made way for the new.
Forty years later, everything is data, but not determinated yet.