Episode 6

Overview

The magazine series about computers and digital communications. This week, reporter Benjamin Woolley offers viewers the chance to take interactive control, via the World Wide Web, of a robot called Nero which has been placed in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London. After the programme, viewers who have Internet access will be able to control Nero and see live video pictures from Madame Tussaud's. Nero is the forerunner of projects which will dispense with the importance of geography and provide a virtual presence in remote locations which are totally inhospitable to humans. From the United States, there is a special report on how the homeless and unemployed of San Francisco are getting online. Plus, Canadian guru Michael Strangelove gives advice on how to be a successful advertiser on the Internet. And, in the regular Hotlist spot, a cyber celebrity travels to his favourite places on the World Wide Web.