Archive for the ‘Digital Revolution’ Category
Download: The True Story of the Internet
Download: The True Story of the Internet is about a revolution — the technological, cultural, commercial and social revolution that has radically changed our lives. And for the first time on television, we hear how it happened from the men and women who made it possible. From the founders of eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, Netscape, Google [...]
The Global Brain
This fascinating documentary was released in 1983 just as the personal computer revolution was beginning. Is the Internet part of humanity’s evolution to higher consciousness? The Global Brain is a metaphor for the worldwide intelligent network formed by people together with the information and communication technologies that connect them into an “organic” whole. As the [...]
The Virtual Revolution: The Cost Of Free
Twenty years on from its invention, Dr Aleks Krotoski continues her investigation of how the World Wide Web is transforming almost every aspect of our lives. She gives the lowdown on how, for better and for worse, commerce has colonised the web – and reveals how web users are paying for what appear to be [...]
Web 3.0: The Semantic Web
A short story about the Semantic Web. Some Internet experts believe the next generation of the Web – Web 3.0 – will make tasks like your search for movies and food faster and easier. Instead of multiple searches, you might type a complex sentence or two in your Web 3.0 browser, and the Web will [...]
The Truth According To Wikipedia
Google or Wikipedia? Those of us who search online — and who doesn’t? — are getting referred more and more to Wikipedia. For the past two years, this free online “encyclopedia of the people” has been topping the lists of the world’s most popular websites. But do we really know what we’re using? Backlight plunges [...]
Google Me
A documentary about a guy, Jim Killeen, who Googled himself and then went all over the world meeting others with his name.
The Ipod Revolution
The iPod Revolution goes behind the scenes and gives the inside story of how Steve Jobs gave Apple new life and paved the way for iPod to takeover the mp3 market and redefine the music industry. The digital music revolution has been bigger than anyone could have imagined, well almost anyone. It seems one company, [...]
Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier
Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world [...]








