Check out The Virtual Revolution - 1. The Great Levelling?
Quoted from the BBC (accessed 1.40pm 1/2/2010) 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.
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A key question posed in this programme is whether the web has replicated the hierarchies and elites of the world or whether power has transferred to the hands of those who use the medium. The "flattening" of knowledge is considered with a discussion on the emergence of wikipaedia and how it has had to transform from establishing the "truth" by consensus to one where the system has to be policed. Includes interviews with Sir Tim Berners Lee and Sir Stephen Fry. What? He's not a knight? You sure?
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