Multimedia Collection
Selling the Future
(Information Technology and the Future: Visions of Heaven and Hell series)
VHS
52 minutes
1995
T58.5 .V58 1995 v.1
This program looks at the electronic, technological, and conceptual world growing around us. With the ever-accelerating speed of work, a technological environment that replaces the office workspace with cyberspace, and interpersonal relationships with virtual community, what does it mean to be human? What once took 100,000 hours of work to accomplish in the mid 20th century, can now be completed in just 10,000 hours thanks to technology. And in the next generation, that work will be completed in a mere 1,000 hours. While this growing new virtual community can provide support and information, not everyone is enamored of cyberspace and its development. Will the technology set us free to build a new and better world - or will it isolate individuals behind virtual walls and create ever-increasing pressure as more and more information becomes available and what we know and the tools we use to manipulate that information are constantly becoming obsolete?
Distributed by Films for the Humanities & Sciences.
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