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Reporter Rohan Silva looks at the workplaces using new technology and asks whether we should feel threatened by it, or whether it will benefit all of us
Britain is on the brink of a technological revolution. Machines and artificial intelligence are beginning to replace jobs like never before. Reporter Rohan Silva looks at the workplaces already using this new technology and asks whether we should feel threatened by it, or whether it will benefit all of us. Are we ready for one of the biggest changes the world of work has ever seen?
First broadcast: 14th September 2015
Duration 28:51
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A compilation of short-form videos which give students studying computer science an insight into how computers actually work
A compilation of short-form videos which give students studying computer science an insight into how computers actually work. Filmed in real-life work settings, the videos look closely at what a computer consists of, how the various components work, how it processes data, and how it is used in robotics and software development.
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Evan Davis decodes the formula that took Apple from suburban Californian garage to global supremacy, telling the story of Steve Jobs's rise, fall and triumphant rise again
Broadly considered a brand that inspires fervour and defines cool consumerism, Apple has become one of the biggest corporations in the world, fuelled by game-changing products that tap into modern desires. Its leader, Steve Jobs, was a long-haired college dropout with infinite ambition, and an inspirational perfectionist with a bully’s temper. A man of contradictions, he fused a Californian counterculture attitude and a mastery of the art of hype with explosive advances in computer technology.
Insiders including Apple co-founder … Ler mais
Documentary looking at Gordon Welchman, a codebreaker crucial to the allies defeating the Nazis in World War II
Gordon Welchman was one of the original elite codebreakers crucial to the allies defeating the Nazis in World War II. He is the forgotten genius of Bletchley Park.
Filmed extensively at Bletchley Park, the centre for codebreaking operations during World War II, this documentary features the abandoned buildings where thousands of people worked tirelessly trying to crack the codes; Hut 6, where Welchman pioneered his groundbreaking work; and the machines that Welchman helped design.
Post-war, Welchman moved … Ler mais
Documentary revealing the secret story of how two men hacked into Hitler's personal super-code machine
Documentary that reveals the secret story behind one of the greatest intellectual feats of World War II, a feat that gave birth to the digital age. In 1943, a 24-year-old maths student and a GPO engineer combined to hack into Hitler’s personal super-code machine – not Enigma but an even tougher system, which he called his ‘secrets writer’.
Their break turned the Battle of Kursk, powered the D-day landings and orchestrated the end of the conflict in Europe. … Ler mais
A compilation of Tomorrow's World features first broadcast in the 1960s, looking at how computers started to be used in homes, schools and offices
Derek Cooper examines innovations in mechanical design engineering (Digital Drawing Board 16/04/1969), as well as a new system to help deal with business correspondence (Auto Secretary 20/09/1967).
Europe’s first home computer system makes an appearance (Home Computer Terminal 20/09/1967), and the impact of information technology on education is looked at with the help of Forest Grammar School, Berks (Nellie: School Computer 05/02/1969).
Finally, James Burke reports on a new type of office desk which moves automatically, allowing … Ler mais
A state-of-the-art view of the Universe
Cosmic Eye is a short film and iOS app, developed by astrophysicist Danail Obreschkow. It shows the largest and smallest well known scales of the universe by gradually zooming out from and then back into the face of a young lady called “Louise”. According to the developer, the film and app were inspired by the essay Cosmic View (1957) and the short films Cosmic Zoom (1968) and Powers of Ten (1977), but use state-of-the-art know-how and new scientific … Ler mais
Offers a state of the art, computer generated journey through the universe, and tries to pinpoint the role of human beings cohabitating within its vastness
Cosmic Voyage is a 1996 short documentary film produced in the IMAX format, directed by Bayley Silleck, produced by Jeffrey Marvin, and narrated by Morgan Freeman. The film was presented by the Smithsonian Institution‘s National Air and Space Museum, and played in IMAX theaters worldwide. The film is available in the DVD format.
Cosmic Voyage has a format similar to Eva Szasz’s Cosmic Zoom, and Charles and Ray Eames‘s classic Powers of Ten educational … Ler mais
This short animation transports us from the farthest conceivable point of the universe to the tiniest particle of existence, an atom of a living human cell
Cosmic Zoom is a 1968 short film directed by Eva Szasz and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It depicts the relative size of everything in the universe in an 8-minute sequence using animation and animation camera shots.
The film starts with an aerial image of a boy rowing with his dog in a boat on the Ottawa River. The movement then freezes and the view slowly zooms out, revealing more of the landscape all the … Ler mais
This unique book takes you on a graphic journey through the universe, to the edge of infinity in one direction and to the nucleus of the atom in the other
Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps is a 1957 book by Dutch educator Kees Boeke that combines writing and graphics to explore many levels of size and structure, from the astronomically vast to the atomically tiny. The book begins with a photograph of a Dutch girl sitting outside a school and holding a cat. The text backs up from the original photo, with graphics that include more and more of the vast reaches of space in which the girl … Ler mais
A special programme marking a decade of the BBC Computer Literacy Project
A special programme in 1992 looks back ten years to the 1980s BBC Computer Literacy Project.
1 programmeFirst broadcast: 5th April 1992
Retrospective on the Project
BBC1 Series 1 Episode 1First broadcast 5th…
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About computers in society
A series of ten programmes about computers in society, with Fred Harris.
2 series, 15 programmesFirst broadcast: 24th October 1988
Electric Avenue – Series 1
1. The
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A Schools Television series
A Schools Television series presented by Carol Vorderman.
This encouraged schools to experiment in various specific ways.
1 series, 10 programmesFirst broadcast: 9th May 1988
1. Desktop Publishing: The Problem
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Six programmes on how micro-technology can help disabled people to live more independent lives
Six programmes looking at the way computer based technology helped people with various kinds of disability.
1 series, 6 programmesFirst broadcast: 30th August 1985
1. Christopher’s Magic Cupboard
BBC2 Series 1 …
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