The Virtual Revolution - Homo Interneticus

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2010

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Dr Aleks Krotoski concludes her investigation of the internet twenty years on by asking whether our brains are being rewired by the net. Are Facebook and other social media infantilising and corrupting young minds, or will they encourage a new cooperative way of thinking?

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0:00.0	UBCWorldService.com slash podcasts.
0:04.0	And now the final part of the virtual revolution
0:07.0	our series about the World Wide Web
0:09.0	is the web changing our evolution as a species.
0:21.0	In the two short decades since the World Wide Web was created
0:24.0	the digital revolution has touched every aspect of our lines.
0:29.0	A quarter of the planet now enjoys this extraordinary new access to information and people.
0:35.0	But, caught up in our virtual landscapes and instant connections,
0:40.0	few of us pause to wonder what it's doing to us,
0:44.0	what's the effect on our relationships, on our education,
0:48.0	is the web even changing how we think.
0:52.0	It's a world that has no consequences.
0:54.0	So why do you need cognition, why do you need meaning, why do you need metaphor?
0:57.0	Would you be happy if your doctor never read anything in detail, how happy would you be?
1:03.0	You've started to get almost a new personality type
1:09.0	we're no longer nourished but consumed in some way by what we've created.
1:14.0	Are we, for better or worse, evolving from homo sapiens
1:18.0	into some sort of homo-interneticus?
1:24.0	I'm Dr. Alex Kratowski and for this,
1:27.0	the final part of the BBC's virtual revolution series,
1:31.0	I'm going to plunge into the fear and the hype
1:34.0	to find out whether the web really is trivializing our relationships
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