Multimedia Collection
The World at Your Fingertips
(The Machine That Changed The World series)
VHS
58 minutes
QA76.17 .M341 1992 no.5
This program looks at the social revolution wrought by computers, and at what price: the disappearance of place as an attribute, the loss of privacy, the pollution of information - and the transmission, sharing and replication of polluted information; and the near-catastrophies that can occur when (as happened in the October 1987 stock market plunge) computer networks take on a life of their own.
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