Genre
Technology / Documentary
Producer by
Russell Barnes / Dominic Crossley-Holland / Emma De'ath / Julian Philips / Tilly Cowan / Francis Hanly / Dan Kendall / Rajan Malhotra / Molly Milton / Susanna Posnett / Philip Smith / Jo Wade
Directed by
Francis Hanly / Dan Kendall / Molly Milton / Philip Smith
Presented by
Aleks Krotoski
Cast
Aleks Krotoski / Tim Berners-Lee / Stephen Fry / Bill Gates / Jeff Bezos / Al Gore / Chad Hurley / Andrew Keen / Steve Wozniak / Martha Lane Fox / Charlie Leadbeater / David Runciman / Douglas Rushkoff / Clay Shirky / Lee Siegel / Biz Stone / Mark Zuckerberg / Kudjo Agbevi / Chris Anderson / Ross Anderson / John Perry Barlow / John Battelle / Dana Boyd / Stewart Brand / Nicholas Carr / Vinton G. Cerf / Shami Chakrabarti / Greg Conti / Chris Cox / Robin Dunbar / Shawn Fanning / Bob Finch / David Gallagher / Frank Gardner / Kenneth Geers / Seth Goldstein / Konstantin Goloskokov / Susan Greenfield / Reed Hastings / Austin Heap / Arianna Huffington / Chris Hughes / Ishtiaq Hussain / Toomas Hendrik Ilves / Steven Johnson / Mitch Kapor / Lina Khatib / Einar Kvaran / James Marcus / Marissa Mayer / Paul Meijer / Leo Murray / David Nicholas / Ory Okolloh / Rainer Ottis / Ben Parr / Jonah Peretti / Macon Phillips / Xio Qiang / Steve Schiff / Eric Schmidt / Daniel Schmitt
Production company
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Open University, The
Original channel
BBC Two, BBC HD
Original language
English
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Broadcast dates
30 January 2010 (UK)
Original runing time
30 January 2010 – 20 February 2010
Episode duration
60 minutes
Picture format
16:9 HDTV 1080i
Guest stars
Robin Dunbar / Shawn Fanning / Bob Finch / David Gallagher / Frank Gardner / Kenneth Geers / Seth Goldstein / Konstantin Goloskokov / Susan Greenfield / Reed Hastings / Austin Heap / Arianna Huffington / Chris Hughes / Ishtiaq Hussain / Toomas Hendrik Ilves / Steven Johnson / Mitch Kapor / Lina Khatib / Einar Kvaran / James Marcus / Marissa Mayer / Paul Meijer / Leo Murray / David Nicholas / Ory Okolloh / Rainer Ottis / Ben Parr / Jonah Peretti / Macon Phillips / Xio Qiang / Steve Schiff / Eric Schmidt / Daniel Schmitt / Nigel Shadbolt / Master Shortie / Wen Yunchao / Koh Young-Sam / Hu Yong / Terry Winograd / Evan Williams / Jimmy Wales / Lars Ulrich
Offical website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n4j0r
episode summary
Twenty years on from the invention of the world wide web, this major new series takes stock of its profound impact on how, for better and for worse, the digital revolution is reshaping our lives. Over four themed episodes that criss-cross the globe, journalist and academic Dr. Aleks Krotoski explores the meaning of a phenomenon that is transforming everything, from how we learn to how we shop, vote and make friends. With a quarter of the planet connected so far, this series examines what is in store for the remaining 75 per cent of the world's population as they come online. The first episode, The Great Leveling?, encounters some of the biggest names associated with the web today, including Bill Gates, Al Gore, Arianna Huffington, Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales, YouTube CEO Chad Hurley and the inventor of the web himself, Tim Berners-Lee. Aleks discusses with them whether the web has lived up to the early dream of its pioneers to help empower people by providing equal access to global, instant and free information. Tracing the libertarian values and outlook of the early web back to the counterculture of the Sixties, Aleks explores just how far the web is overturning old notions of ownership, expertise and creative freedom. But rather than a simple "leveling" of humanity, she identifies a more complex cycle of revolutions at play in the web on a continuing clash between technological possibility and our desire to control and profit. It is this tension, she argues, that makes the web the extraordinarily diverse, fast-moving and powerful phenomenon that now has a grip on our lives.
fun and viewer review
I thought up some interesting ideas we could do with the upcoming technology of lets say 2060. Take a sphere of cameras all facing toward the centre of the sphere and with cameras on top of those cameras facing out of the camera (like a flys eye) but of course within the inner directions too then record. Have as many spheres as you want, maybe spheres making up a bigger sphere then turn this info digital, with neurotech have chips on the subjects brain and let this info enter their brain.
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