One to watch: The Virtual Revolution

[Clippy]

The Virtual Revolution

Starts Saturday 30 January 2010, 20:30 on BBC Two

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.

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.

[NickFitz]

I saw Aleks Krotoski speak at a web dev conference the other year. Though she is undoubtedly an accomplished presenter and a very intelligent person, I came away from her talk without any clear idea of what point she was trying to make whatsoever

[xoggoth]

I am still waiting for a computer virus to "jump the species barrier" and infect a human. It is only a matter of time.

As is well known, all previous cases of jumping the species barrier have been due to humans bonking animals and I expect porn sites to provide the first infection.

[VectraMan]

I am still waiting for a computer virus to "jump the species barrier" and infect a human. It is only a matter of time.

As is well known, all previous cases of jumping the species barrier have been due to humans bonking animals and I expect porn sites to provide the first infection.

First infection will be to Apple products. There must be lots of fanbois getting sexual with their iMacs, iPods, iTablets, etc...