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].
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"SuperPower: Exploring the Extraordinary Power Of The Internet"
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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].
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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.
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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"
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