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BBC "Virtual Revolution: The Cost of Free"

ianf [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, March 20, 2010
14 years ago3,102 views

As part of their "Superpower" month of TV programmes, devoted to "Exploring the Extraordinary Power Of The Internet", the BBC is rerunning original BBC2-series "Virtual Revolution" on the BBC World cable channel. The extremely well done episodes are written, performed and presented by the newest brainy British IT-pinup grrl, and a doctor no less!, dr. Alex Krotoski [doctor of something networking-sociological-or-other; Alex short for Alexandra, one has to presume].
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/assets/images/2010/03/11/100311205231_aleks_krotoski_226.jpg
"SuperPower: Exploring the Extraordinary Power Of The Internet"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specialreports/superpower.shtml

This week's episode, #3 in order, called "The Cost of Free," contains the most comprehensive, pedagogical explanation known to me to date of Google's key to success – how they managed to make us complicit in the unholy exchange of free services for willingly becoming the commodities that they are selling [because that's what they do].
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/assets/images/2010/03/05/100305121324_buy_now_226.jpg
The doctor also brings up the hitherto little-discussed implication of people, especially young ones, engaging in social networks and leaving personal trails on the web effectively for ever – there to be discovered years hence by prospective mates and employers alike. Once it's on the web, it becomes impossible to remove/ cancel/ delete. Google's own brainy IT-pinup grrl makes an appearance, talking much too fast for my liking, as if she was paid to exhale some sizeable minimum of syllables per time unit. In all a rather well done piece of social documentary of what is mere 20-year phenomenon, the World Wide Web.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/2010/02/virtual-revolution-episode-thr.shtml

Don't miss it tomorrow on BBC World cable
channel at 10:10-11:00 and 23:10-00 [GMT +1]

Online schedule: "The Virtual Revolution: How and when to listen"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2010/03/100311_virtual_revolution_how_and_when.shtml

BBC-search for "Krotoski":
http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Krotoski
[or] http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Krotoski&uri=%2Fworldservice%2Fspecialreports%2Fsuperpower.shtml&go=toolbar

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