Learning on ScreenSeeing By Numbers 1: Computer Rain
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: In the past decade, the computer has grown in versatility whilst shrinking in size and cost. This programme is about its impact on our society: not in terms of automated car production, but how it effects education, business efficiency, leisure or even our safety. The unpredictability of weather confounds even the best of forecasts, yet in just one hour, a sudden mountain storm can become a dangerous flash flood. To jump ahead of the weather, the Meteorological Office has enlisted the help of a computer. High on a hill, a radar dish searches for one thing - rain. The data it feeds back to the computer is colour coded for light, medium and heavy rain. Now at a glance, a weatherman can predict a storm two hours before it happens: can predict an emergency - and so save lives.
- Researcher Comments
- Story also appears in ‘Living Tomorrow No. 301’
- Keywords
- Weather; Science and technology; Computers and computing
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/270
- Credits:
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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