The Digital Revolution....

Great programme called The Digital Revolution running on BBC Four. Last night's programme, presented by the rather dishy Aleks Krotoski, was all about how big names like Twitter, You Tube and Facebook have revolutonized people-reporting in the last five years. Not very long ago, although light years in cyber time, it would have been impossible for this blog, and an estimate 60 million like it, to exist and for all of us to instantaneously share views with like minded folk on the other side of the globe. Incredible if you stop to think about it, and yet, here we are taking it all for granted! There are a number of real experts on the programme, not just the usual array of academics which everyone trawls out, but the likes of Bill Gates and Tim Berners Lee (the founding father of the internet. By the way how cool must that be if someone asks "What do you do then?" and to be able to reply "Oh yes I er invented the internet!") Ms Krotoski, actually I think it's Dr. Krotoski, apart from being dishy, holds the whole thing together superbly as she pops up in London, then a second later in San Francisco, then Tokyo, then Shanghai and so on. She listens to these boffin internet pioneers intensely and you're always left with the impression that she could quite easily hold her own amongst them. Great programme. Click on the link to the beeb site to get a flavour of it....