The Virtual Revolution
Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives.
Joined by some of the web’s biggest names – including the founders of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, and the web’s inventor – she explores how far the web has lived up to its early promise.
The founding father of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, believed his invention would remain an open frontier that nobody could own, and that it would take power from the few and give it to the many.
Now, in a provocative, strongly authored argument, presenter Aleks Krotoski will re-assess utopian claims like these, made over many years by the digital revolution's key innovators - and test them against the hard realities of the emerging Web today, exploring how the possibilities of the pure technology have been constrained, even distorted by the limitations of human nature.
The Great Levelling? In the first in this four-part series, Aleks charts the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube, and traces an ongoing clash between the freedom the technology offers us, and our innate human desire to control and profit.
Enemy of the State? With contributions from Al Gore, Martha Lane Fox, Stephen Fry and Bill Gates, Aleks explores how interactive, unmediated sites like Twitter and YouTube have encouraged direct action and politicised young people in unprecedented numbers.
The Cost of Free. She tells the inside story of the gold rush years of the dotcom bubble and reveals how retailers such as Amazon learned the lessons. She also charts how, out of the ashes, Google forged the business model that has come to dominate today's web, offering a plethora of highly attractive, overtly free web services, including search, maps and video, that are in fact funded through a sophisticated and highly lucrative advertising system which trades on what we users look for.
Homo Interneticus? Joined by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Al Gore and the neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, Aleks examines the popularity of social networks such as Facebook and asks how they are changing our relationships. And, in a ground-breaking test at University College London, Aleks investigates how the Web may be distracting and overloading our brains.
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Do you realize HOW much more one has gained and still has access to, knowledge wise, due to the world wide web/internet.........Larry
I'm at the beginning then came upon commentary by Al Gore and Stephen Fry. I've seen enough of this one, next!
Drinking game: have a very small sip of any drink of your liking everytime she says "revolution". If you're still alive at the end, you win.
why do men who are journalist, or presenters in these travel programs always wear blue shirts and white trousers?
lol....this is the story of "nbc" discovery.lol....yoU people are a trip.....
It's surprising that google earns 200 dollers per second!
lamest most generic doc evarr!!
I would love to get my hands on "The Distracted Mind with Dr. Adam Gazzaley". It's really similar to this but I can't find it anywhere! Any ideas?
If ICANN has no affiliation with any political entity, why did they shut down wikileaks?
this woman is hot! and she likes using her laptop in exotic locations. I wonder where she is walking all the time?
episodes still going...
stop it!
Ms K'-using concepts of irony-and words such as 'paradox'-'do not a clever person make.
Nor does it disguise -a woman's need to be seen as 'attractive' . ms K-is still doing the 'head flicks-the pouting-as she types with preternatural nails or talons perhaps-on possibly the most expensive looking laptop in the western world. More 'sex in the city'-than an insightful doc.
NB-has anyone -ever asked the very obvious question...?
It might be interpreted as mysogynistic by some idiots--but the question is taboo.....
Notwithstanding their excuse of historical handicaps---
what have 'the ladies' ever invented-or more importantly produced?
And -don't say -people via gestation!!!!
Not even the manufacture of sanitary pads and tampons.
Adverts for decades condescend to them-... without their notice.
Curiously-as I write-I hear Ms K say-'wings beneath my....
-beneath something
...plus the silly visual metaphors. Episodes stating the obvious-even for lame brains in 2008----yada yada yada
I'm outta here
end!
oh-almost forgot-
Maybe the hive of bees -is due to..........
the ubiquitous S Fry-or the stupid person's clever person-'if you will'(a phrase so enchanting to his type)-
this uber example of today's 'luvee' culture.
so what has made me so 'exercised'? I guess having the latest x gen person telling 'us' the obvious1
It's all so commonsense. Free? Never thought so!
twitter? facebook? what ? Whover signs up for this/them-are as unaware of their stupidty-as Ms KI.
still watching interminable episodes of 'ugly duckling to- ugly larger bird--swanning around the globe -striving to 'look '---and be clever;and sliding up to much cleverer folk-and possibly rich and powerful (note to Alexs)
So-Alexs-are you fulfilled-as you finish a BBC junket-to make further career progress-as Sigmund might say -are you making you Daddy happy'
NB -I don't know her-nor have any professional rivalry. It' s just the inanity of it all- Suckciety-Society looking at itself-
viewing this-several years after broadcast
latest brief comment on final episodes. K -in a underground carpark-saying secrecy is paramount(my words)-interviewing a guy fully captioned ie Scmitt
very secret!
also location -one can hear the BBC luvies saying 'so Watergate'-just silly!!!!!
apart from all that-presenter Kratoski-or whoever-seemingly has the corpus collosum and limbic sytem working overtime-in a 'please-look at me-I am beautiful-NOW'-it took 20 years but -I am ---please look at me-!!!
very intersting
@ so.necessary...lmao your a sick person
Dr. Aleks Krotoski is hot!!! She made watching this worthwhile.
Must admit, I enjoyed that a lot more than I thought. I usually watch science and travel documentaries to get away from bloody computers but I definitely learned something here. I get the feeling that 10 years from now we'll look back at how liberal people are today withtheir opinions and think, 'back in the good ol' days' :)
A very good documentary. its good to now how the internet is evolving. Its the fasting growing phenomina with people all over the world are interacting. Theres so much you can already do. people spend hours on a regular basis on it. Peoples lives now depend on it. It will be interesting to know what the people in charge of the worlds servers will do with all our data. The internet is the best thing to interact with any part of the world in a instant. Fantastic!
Those who like this, also bought THIS.
I watched this series on tv awhile ago & its actually very good
Dont listen to the "hate machines" arrogant response above
No shit sherlock, the internet & its processes are of course not free but the ability to converse with people around the globe about various issues typed/filmed by your own self, making your life a little easier being able to pay a bill at 10.30 at night, finding items you want & wont find at your local shopping center, & much more, is & i also belive if you want to own a book you have to pay for it too, Mr genius
This doucumentary gives the common person & small insight into how the web has/is evoulving & an insight into potential issues (social, political, economical etc) arrising from it