The Real Big Brother
Civil liberties advocates have warned against government surveillance for decades. Today, corporations use technology to monitor employees and customers. Is big business the new big brother? This program addresses the growing debate about our “sur...
Digital Dark Age? Gambling with Humankind’s Knowledge
Compact and portable, digitized information is an attractive alternative to bulky books, analog media, and emulsion-based photographs—but can it stand the test of time? In this program, Stewart Brand, co-inventor of the TCP/IP Internet protocol, a...
Disconnected: A Month Without Computers
No email, no Facebook, no blogging. No Google for researching term papers, even. From here on out it’s pencils, spiral notebooks, typewriters, and good old-fashioned library books. What twenty-something in his or her right mind would partake of su...