This 4-part film was amazing! Of course, the portrayal of this story sells itself, but Oliver Ziegenbalg, Robert Thalheim and the main actors each deserve an A+. The knowledge, understand and conceptual elements necessary to bring together deep aspects of the team's 2 main characters is mind-blowing.
Normal human thought processes could never have designed the algorithms necessary to create such a human-interfaced mapping system possible. If it could, the brilliant minds of Silicon Valley would have done so themselves during the '90s.
Carsten Schlüter's unique vision of integrating art with computer imagery, coupled with Juri Müller's idiosyncratic thought process and perspectives, synchronized a shared vision. Juri with his coding/programming expertise and Carsten persuasive social prowess (along with an unlikely crew of hacker geeks) journeyed uncharted technological territory.
Sadly, credit for the grueling masterpiece landed in the hands of a corporate giant.
P.S. I am a poor widow in America ($819 USD monthly) and use Google regularly -- right now! This has been happening by greedy ppl since the beginning of time, but that doesn't make it right. And this isn't the only intellectual property Google "owns" that doesn't actually belong to them.