Dream Machine (5 Parts)

Producer

Fiona Holmes; Jon Palfreman; Nancy Linde; Robert Hone

Contributor

Cast

Andrew Sachs
Lesley Judd

Title: Giant brains
Synopsis: 1 (producer Fiona Holmes): Englishman Charles Babbage conceived the basic idea of a computer about 150 years ago, as a machine that would relieve the humans of the tedium of calculations. But not until 1946, when the American produced the INIAC, did the c
Title: Inventing the future
Synopsis: 2 (producer Nancy Linde): J Presper Eckert and John Mauchley struggled to make a commercial success of their ENIAC computer. Meanwhile in Britain, the J Lyons company decided to build its own computer to improve efficiency.
Title: Paperback computer,The
Synopsis: 3 (producers Robert Hone and John Palfreman): Among the advances in computer technology in the 1970s, the single silicon chip suitable for mass production incorporated the vast amounts of computer circuitry.
Title: Thinking machine, The
Synopsis: 4 (producer Jon Palfreman): Although computers could do calculus and play chess by the 1960s, they were still unable to simulte human thought.
Title: Passing of remoteness, The
Synopsis: 5 (producer Robert Hone): Looking into a digital future with world-wide computer networks, issues of error and privacy become increasingly more worrying.

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