Just four years later, with “The Circle” film adaptation hitting theaters Friday and Congress rolling back protections against ISPs selling users’ web histories, his darkly humorous vision of the future doesn’t seem so far off. When asked if the relentless march of technological progress should be seen as good or bad for humanity at a Tribeca Film Festival screening Wednesday, Emma Watson, who plays new Circle employee Mae in the film, felt the answer was complicated. Really, I’ve taken him to a room and have been like, ‘Tell me what we do! “It was a very vulnerable experience for me to be in this movie,” Watson explained earlier in the Q&A session. Getting to play Mae and put that on screen was really hard for me, and really meaningful.”

Source: Huffington Post April 27, 2017 15:11 UTC