The Virtual Revolution: How 20 Years Of The Web Has Reshaped Our Lives
- BBC series.
Unfortunately "BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only" but those outside of the UK can access interview excerpts. In one, Sherry Turkle talks of declaring "e-mail bankruptcy", the "hyperdrive of connectivity" and describes young people as "a generation in retreat, they'll text but they won't talk." In another, Dave Weinberger describes hyperlinking as a "new type of punctuation"
giving us access to a "linked world, abundant beyond imagining" and that "the biggest revelation of the Internet is that the world is way more interesting than anyone told us."
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