Episode 8

Overview

The final programme in the current series of the magazine show about computers and digital communications. Exploring how our ideas of community and national identity are being challenged by the Internet, Martin Jacques of the Independent travels both to Brussels and to Paddy Net on the World Wide Web. Plus, a report on how virtual worlds are far more imaginative, and far more fun, than the real world. And regular presenter Benjamin Woolley introduces Virtual Reality Modelling Language, which promises to transform the look of the Internet as it brings to it the possibility of fully interactive three-dimensional environments. In the final Hotlist feature, Sadie Plant reflects on how, in the on-line world, you can choose to be whoever you want. And the programme pays tribute to its distinguished predecessor, the BBC TV series about computers, Micro Live.