THE VIRTUAL REVOLUTION
UK / BBC Two / 4x60 minute episodes / Broadcast Saturday 1st January 2010 -Executive Producer: Dominic Crossley-Holland / Producer: Russell Barnes / Director: Philip Smith
In this intriguing four part documentary Dr Aleks Krotoski explores the massive impact that the digital revolution has had on our world and in a prime example of that the series itself was put together partly utilising input from UK viewers via a special BBC website.
Each episode tackled a different theme with the first episode focused on the development of the web with interviews with some of the leading proponents of the internet and computing including Bill gates, internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee, Al Gore, Jimmy Wales the creator of Wikipedia, founder of YouTube Chad Hurley etc. Krotoski, who is a likeable and knowledgable presenter, has a theory that todays web with the way it empowering people and information actually harks back to the counter-culture years of the late 1960's. Not hard to see where she is coming from but it does seem that of the quarter of the Earth's population that is connected 99% of them are either on Facebook or watching clips on YouTube!
Produced in association with The Open University.
THE EPISODE TITLES
1. THE GREAT LEVELLING (Saturday 1 January 2010 @ 8.30pm)
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