Inspiration wanted: help us name the series #bbcnamestorm

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• 1. At 11:16am on 06 Oct 2009, joffday wrote:

  Alt Ctrl Del

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• 2. At 11:17am on 06 Oct 2009, RachaelC32 wrote:

  Wel.com

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• 3. At 11:22am on 06 Oct 2009, rtwhitespace wrote:

  Evolving_Clicks

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• 4. At 11:24am on 06 Oct 2009, Digital Knave wrote:

  Here's a couple:
  
  From links to life: How the the web changed everything
  
  Fabricating the Future: Weaving the threads of the World Wide Web
  
  

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• 5. At 11:25am on 06 Oct 2009, Gee4orce wrote:

  Civilisation 2.0

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• 6. At 11:27am on 06 Oct 2009, NatFGuest wrote:

  E-volution

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• 7. At 11:29am on 06 Oct 2009, PatrickFletcher wrote:

  Life 2.0

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• 8. At 11:32am on 06 Oct 2009, grayseeroly wrote:

  Unclogging the tubes (from the internet meme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes)
  
  or Revolution.net

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• 9. At 11:35am on 06 Oct 2009, laurentdupin wrote:

  Great idea! So here are my first proposals, due to a specialization on IT matters, media 2.0 & an interest in SF topics.
  - The Matrice
  - Enter
  - ITstory
  - 3W
  - TechLand
  - DigitAll
  - Big Browser

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• 10. At 11:36am on 06 Oct 2009, follystone wrote:

  net gains

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• 11. At 11:36am on 06 Oct 2009, Ryu wrote:

  The Information Age

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• 12. At 11:41am on 06 Oct 2009, lintonatlas wrote:

  The Digital Us

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• 13. At 11:42am on 06 Oct 2009, ShamVanDamn wrote:

  I would simply name it WWW.
  
  (dubbelyoudubbelyoudubbelyoudot :))

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• 14. At 11:45am on 06 Oct 2009, allistonmedia wrote:

  Wired World

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• 15. At 11:49am on 06 Oct 2009, Catchingthewaves wrote:

  Wibble

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• 16. At 11:53am on 06 Oct 2009, evenstar6q wrote:

  call it Is Stephen Fry In This?

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• 17. At 11:54am on 06 Oct 2009, daviesem wrote:

  Earth (Abridged)

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• 18. At 11:54am on 06 Oct 2009, Catchingthewaves wrote:

  The Webolution

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• 19. At 11:57am on 06 Oct 2009, DonMackay wrote:

  20 Years of Information Innovation

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• 20. At 11:57am on 06 Oct 2009, Joe_Librarian wrote:

  I've spent some time of late wandering around parts of Birmingham where the Industrial Revolution kicked off so astonishingly quickly. The Boulton and Watt steam engine, cotton spinning machines, easier methods of iron founding, the refinement of concrete, discoveries such as oxygen. These and many, many more happened in just a few decades, often with one discovery becoming an enabler for another. Industrial technology quickly spread and much of society lurched from an agrarian state to an industrial one.
  
  Therefore, "Digital Revolution" seems most appropriate, as that's what it is. Society - globally - has very quickly leapt up to another level of what it can do because of a rapidly emerging set of new, or greatly improved, inter-related technologies. Just like the late 18th century, but with digital data instead of steam and iron.

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• 21. At 12:03pm on 06 Oct 2009, nannaov2 wrote:

  .com commands

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• 22. At 12:06pm on 06 Oct 2009, DAVID JOHNSTON wrote:

  How about
  
  Surfer's Paradise
  
  or is that too loose a phrase? I like it though, hope u do too
  
  :)

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• 23. At 12:08pm on 06 Oct 2009, Dajmin wrote:

  I'd go with something simple and catchy. My favourite is:
  
  .Life (or .LifeStyle)
  
  But that may have been used somewhere already. I have a couple of others that aren't quite as immediate or cool.
  
  OnLife (because it's like 'online', but as a lifestyle!)
  W3 (That 3 should be superscript though, so that it's like www!)
  
  Any others I had in mind seem to have gone walkabout, so that'll have to do you!

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• 24. At 12:11pm on 06 Oct 2009, Seraphim99 wrote:

  How the World Was Shrunk
  
  Wiring the World
  
  Connecting Continents - How the Web shrunk the world
  

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• 25. At 12:11pm on 06 Oct 2009, Mersonwastheperson wrote:

  OurSpace

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• 26. At 12:14pm on 06 Oct 2009, AGNaylor wrote:

  Here's a few suggestions:
  
  The Human Techsperience
  Technosapien
  The Digitage
  Humanity: Integrated

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• 27. At 12:17pm on 06 Oct 2009, Mersonwastheperson wrote:

  OurSpace: Twenty Years in the Making

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• 28. At 12:18pm on 06 Oct 2009, akacawsand wrote:

  Our Digital Domain
  
  or
  
  Digital Domain

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• 29. At 12:19pm on 06 Oct 2009, MurtazaK wrote:

  21st Century: A Web Odyssey

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• 30. At 12:21pm on 06 Oct 2009, stuhigh wrote:

  Web World

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• 31. At 12:23pm on 06 Oct 2009, almostfamousagain wrote:

  Dawn Of The Digital Age
  Birth Of The Information Superhighway
  GUI: Global User Interface
  Technobabble
  A Geeks World
  The Speed Of Science
  Interacting With The World
  How The World Became A Smaller Place
  Bringing Down Borders
  

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• 32. At 12:32pm on 06 Oct 2009, Cydream wrote:

  The Daisy Chain Game
  The Web Defined
  The Web Refined

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• 33. At 12:41pm on 06 Oct 2009, NatFGuest wrote:

  A Series of Tubes

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• 34. At 12:41pm on 06 Oct 2009, earthgecko wrote:

  1. Digitalisation - Our new colonies
  2. Netamorphisis

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• 35. At 12:43pm on 06 Oct 2009, Mersonwastheperson wrote:

  The Silk Road: Twenty Years of the World Wide Web

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• 36. At 12:46pm on 06 Oct 2009, MurtazaK wrote:

  To web or not to web?

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• 37. At 12:47pm on 06 Oct 2009, nannaov2 wrote:

  When We Went .Com
  
  Inside the Net
  
  The Digital Diversion

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• 38. At 12:49pm on 06 Oct 2009, TitanicCabby wrote:

  And on the Eighth day God created the www

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• 39. At 12:55pm on 06 Oct 2009, Musiferase wrote:

  Either:
  
  Digitality
  The Birth of Digitality
  From Reality to Digitality
  
  A tiny explanation: the 20 years you are trying to document here have witnessed not just the birth & growth of the Web, but the wide dissemination of heaps of digitized version of many aspects of our lives: the DVD, cheap, accessible cell phones, mp3s, etc. We are now essentially interfacing with 2 versions of reality on a daily basis: IRL & what I've been calling Digitality.

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• 40. At 1:00pm on 06 Oct 2009, TitanicCabby wrote:

  A fly's eye view of the Web

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• 41. At 1:02pm on 06 Oct 2009, TitanicCabby wrote:

  Caught in the Web

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• 42. At 1:04pm on 06 Oct 2009, TitanicCabby wrote:

  World in a web

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• 43. At 1:07pm on 06 Oct 2009, mikesmith72 wrote:

  WE, as in Web: Reality's WEBvolution
  

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• 44. At 1:07pm on 06 Oct 2009, TitanicCabby wrote:

  Fry caught in the Web

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• 45. At 1:10pm on 06 Oct 2009, TitanicCabby wrote:

  Fry in the web

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• 46. At 1:19pm on 06 Oct 2009, TitanicCabby wrote:

  20 Years plugged in

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• 47. At 1:25pm on 06 Oct 2009, TitanicCabby wrote:

  Why We Web

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• 48. At 1:30pm on 06 Oct 2009, TitanicCabby wrote:

  How far we've come in Fry's lifetime

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• 49. At 1:35pm on 06 Oct 2009, TitanicCabby wrote:

  Around the World in a millisecond

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• 50. At 1:51pm on 06 Oct 2009, calum_asu wrote:

  Around the world in 0.8 seconds
  

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• 51. At 2:08pm on 06 Oct 2009, RichardAllan wrote:

  A few on a similar theme:
  
  The World Wired
  
  How The World Got Wired
  
  The Web: A World Wired
  
  The Web: A World Wired Phenomenon
  
  
  

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• 52. At 2:12pm on 06 Oct 2009, EnglishFolkfan wrote:

  Weaving the Web
  
  The Web Revolution: From dial up log in to the super digital highway
  
  2010: A Web Odyssey
  
  

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• 53. At 2:29pm on 06 Oct 2009, almost witty wrote:

  How about ...
  
  Digital Connections?
  Linking?
  From home to homepage?

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• 54. At 2:33pm on 06 Oct 2009, karemo wrote:

  The Web we weave
  
  With apologies to Sir Walter Scott http://tinyurl.com/ypu7al

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• 55. At 2:48pm on 06 Oct 2009, A_PERSON_NOT_A_BOT wrote:

  We're @ WWW.
  
  WWW = EMC2 (Enlightened Mass Collaboration, Squared).
  
  WWW: Weaving our Wonderful World.
  
  Welcome to our World @ WWW.
  
  The Web: our identity, imagination, information and innovation.

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• 56. At 3:11pm on 06 Oct 2009, Tzctbeeb wrote:

  Webalization.
  
  
  

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• 57. At 3:11pm on 06 Oct 2009, Mersonwastheperson wrote:

  The Silky Way: Plotting 20 Years of the World Wide Web

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• 58. At 3:15pm on 06 Oct 2009, rtwhitespace wrote:

  Click to Evolve

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• 59. At 3:25pm on 06 Oct 2009, btmxpdh wrote:

  Here's mine..
  
  
  "Where's your head @"

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• 60. At 3:29pm on 06 Oct 2009, btmxpdh wrote:

  
  ^
  which should also help with picking a theme tune..lol

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• 61. At 3:31pm on 06 Oct 2009, ecclesarcher wrote:

  Coding the World
  Connected World
  Weblog
  Encircling the Globe: the Growth of the World Wide Web
  Life, Online
  (The Private Life of the World Wide Web - mostly joking)
  Evolution of a Revolution: The Story of the Web (or, A Revoultion's Evolution)
  What a Long, Strange Trip it's Been...
  The Grid
  World at Your Fingertips
  Ghosts and Machines
  Humanity Online
  Virtual Reality: the Life of the Web
  Interconnecting
  Internet, International
  
  Apologies for any duplicates.

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• 62. At 3:38pm on 06 Oct 2009, EnglishFolkfan wrote:

  Evolving Worlds: The Web
  An exploration in four parts of how, in the last two decades, the world wide web has connected all parts of the globe.

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• 63. At 3:56pm on 06 Oct 2009, Mersonwastheperson wrote:

  Spreading the Net

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• 64. At 4:03pm on 06 Oct 2009, EnglishFolkfan wrote:

  The Web Revolution - Celebrating what was a good idea (at the time)
  Adapted from from TBL in the 1st clip
  
  Humanity Connected: The Web Evolution
  Also adapted from TBL 1st clip
  
  With this being the Celebratory year of Charles Darwin why not:
  
  Evolution of the Web
  Evolution of the World Wide Web
  or
  The Web Evolution
  The World Wide Web Evolution

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• 65. At 4:48pm on 06 Oct 2009, Dan Biddle wrote:

  Just to say MASSIVE thanks to everybody for their ideas and contributions so far. Really, really impressive. Already putting our own efforts to some considerable shame!
  
  Please keep the suggestions coming - and enjoy the rest of the site, the rushes and the ongoing open production.
  
  Dan

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• 66. At 5:49pm on 06 Oct 2009, Musiferase wrote:

  From CERN To World Concern

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• 67. At 5:57pm on 06 Oct 2009, graduatecalling wrote:

  How about 'Epic Win: The Story of the Internet'
  (Epic Win and Epic Fail are internet memes)

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• 68. At 6:01pm on 06 Oct 2009, Tumbleworld wrote:

  A few thoughts that come to mind include:
  
  Electric Dreams
  The Shift
  Society 2.0
  The Webpocalypse
  Netspace
  Life on Line
  Wh@?
  Boy Meets Worlds
  The Greatest Show On Earth
  Bleeped
  Infoquake
  Surfing the Revolution
  
  Maybe something here can help inspire someone :)
  
  T.

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• 69. At 6:07pm on 06 Oct 2009, WaltzDude wrote:

  Revolution 2.0
  SciFry
  DigiRev
  

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• 70. At 6:20pm on 06 Oct 2009, NoHeroine wrote:

  The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds ;)

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• 71. At 7:44pm on 06 Oct 2009, DetlefNauck wrote:

  Just Browsing

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• 72. At 9:48pm on 06 Oct 2009, tr1ska1deka wrote:

  The Web's Wand.

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• 73. At 11:07pm on 06 Oct 2009, alekskrotoski wrote:

  i like 'where's your head @'
  
  aleks

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• 74. At 09:15am on 07 Oct 2009, ninerays wrote:

  Inside Tim Berners-Lee's head
  (the inventor of the WWW who had the vision of it before it became reality)
  Or
  Communication Revolution
  Or
  The age of Digital Communication
  Or
  The Human Web
  Or
  The World Mind
  Or
  Linking the world together
  Or
  Hyperspace Race

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• 75. At 09:26am on 07 Oct 2009, Dan Biddle wrote:

  Ongoing gratitude for the suggestions coming in. Some great stuff here!
  
  If this was a series more focused upon Tim Berners-Lee himself, I'd like to call it 'Tim Berners-Lee: the man who soldered the world'.
  
  Shouldn't all titles have a Bowie reference? Worked for Life on Mars... :)

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• 76. At 10:31am on 07 Oct 2009, Gone walkabout wrote:

  CCC - Connect, Contact & Communicate

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• 77. At 11:04am on 07 Oct 2009, daveofthenewcity wrote:

  If you keep digital revolution, make sure it has a question mark at the end:
  
  "Digital Revolution?"

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• 78. At 12:12pm on 07 Oct 2009, A_PERSON_NOT_A_BOT wrote:

  20/20 on the Weird Wired Wonderspace.
  
  (20/20 being a reference to accuracy of vision and 20 years of the Web's birth).
  
  
  When the Web weaved our world.......
  
  (as in "When the dinosaurs roamed the Earth").
  
  
  Wh@t's Up, Dot?
  
  
  Alternatively, we write the word "Our Web" in different forms --- Morse code, sign language and bar codes.
  
  
  @BBCDigrev team --- please can we see some female faces and rushes on the homepage? Thanks.

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• 79. At 12:45pm on 07 Oct 2009, A_PERSON_NOT_A_BOT wrote:

  Wh@t's Up, Dot?
  
  
  In a way it also connects back to the fact that this is an ongoing documentary series and all its UPloads of docs (documents) to the Web. It's a stimulus for us to continuously check again for new materials streaming in.
  
  Also, the original is, "What's up, Doc?" said by....Bugs Bunny, a smart-alec rabbit and we've been diving down the rabbit holes on this open production!
  
  
  @Dan Biddle --- as well as Bowie references, all titles should refer to either the Marx brothers / Monty Python / Looney Tunes characters.
  
  
  For techie Web aficionados they'd go with any phrase play on the works of HG Wells, Arthur C. Clarke or Aldous Huxley.
  
  For prime-time and as diverse an audience as possible.......I'd go with Bugs Bunny. More people around the world have seen and LOL'ed at a Bugs Bunny cartoon than read 'The World Brain' by HG Wells, written in 1938 when he was 72, in which he envisioned:
  
  "We could build a real ‘World Encyclopedia’ with a true ‘planetary memory for all mankind’…
  
  ...knitting all the intellectual workers of the world through a common interest."

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• 80. At 12:52pm on 07 Oct 2009, A_PERSON_NOT_A_BOT wrote:

  When I wrote sign language before I meant semaphore. Hopefully, there's going to be a sign language and audio version (for the visibly impaired) of this documentary series!
  
  Next month I'm attending a talk where a Director of Inclusion from the European Commission is going to outline their procedures to increase digital inclusion to less able-bodied segments of online surfers.
  
  We've covered the digital divide issues in some detail in our blog discussions, so it will be interesting to gain insights on the EC's perspective too.

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• 81. At 2:07pm on 07 Oct 2009, Musiferase wrote:

  @A_PERSON_NOT_A_BOT re: obligatory Python references in Title, how 'bout "The Age of Naughty Bits" ;->
  
  But seriously,
  
  "Ubitquitous"

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• 82. At 2:37pm on 07 Oct 2009, Musiferase wrote:

  ^^ or "Ubitquity" Ok, I've more than had my two cents. No more suggestions from me for a while.

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• 83. At 3:56pm on 07 Oct 2009, annecaborn wrote:

  Whatever the BBC chooses, and there are some inventive suggestions above, it's NOT a 'revolution'. The single thing that held back the so-called sexual revolution was calling it a revolution. People expect cannon fire and rapid change (we didn't get that in the 60s and we certainly shouldn't expect it now). Real change creeps up and entwine's your life without you really noticing. My Dad would say the 'digital revolution' has passed him by yet 'digital' is part of the fabric of his life and is certainly the way his TV is delivered. Can you imagine life without broadband? It would be like Charlotte Bronte imagining a world without 3 postal deliveries a day (swoon). Call it anything you like. What you're thinking right now is already old.

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• 84. At 5:01pm on 07 Oct 2009, matt_jp wrote:

  The world in a box
  
  Shows the world as we see it is shrinking will fix in a box
  we access the world through TV, PC, radio etc (a box)

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• 85. At 9:13pm on 07 Oct 2009, SheffTim wrote:

  Some thoughts on whether its been a revolution or not?
  annecaborn #83 above argues "it's NOT a 'revolution'.", daveofthenewcity suggets 'Digital Revolution?', whilst Joe_Librarian #20 thinks it has been a revolution. I tend to agree with Joe_Librarian.
  
  We've moved in my lifetime from a mechanical age to a digital one. If your old enough to remember manual typewriters, duplicators where you wrapped a sheet of wax carbon paper round the drum, then turned a handle so the ink was squeezed out through a pad on the drum onto the paper (messy and hit-and-miss), sending a telegram if a message was urgent and the person wasn't on the phone, fax machines and photocopiers were the state of the art; if you had an opinion about something you wrote a letter to a newspaper/MP/Points of View etc and posted it[!], then the introduction of the PC (of whatever flavour), laser printers and then the Internet, websites and email has been a true revolution in how we get things done, increase our productivity, communicate and so on. It doesn't need a question mark, it happened.
  
  Was it 'cannon fire and rapid change'? H@ll yes! The digital age killed off Fleet Street (and caused riots); if you've worked in shops and offices in the past 20 years you'll probably have spent a lot of time, money and effort retraining in order to remain employable; those that only now are trying to catch up are severely disadvantaged, some may never manage it, others find attempting it traumatic. It's put people out of work (remember typing pools anyone?), been a revolution in how we can keep in touch, how we spend our time at work and leisure, in how ideas (good and bad) are spread, given people the opportunity to express their opinions and share their knowledge with far greater numbers of people and so on.
  
  I'd say the introduction of the Digital Age is comparable to the move from horse and human power to coal and steam, then from coal and steam to oil and combustion engines; or that from many small rural cottage-industries to industrialisation, production lines and fewer factories employing many people.
  
  A friend of mine once described it as the 'rise of the glowing rectangular box', because we now seem to spend so much of our time staring at rectangular screens that light up.

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• 86. At 11:43pm on 07 Oct 2009, PCnurse wrote:

  Logging on to our lives
  Logging in to a log on life
  Cyber Century
  Are you online?!
  Logging in to life

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• 87. At 00:53am on 08 Oct 2009, A_PERSON_NOT_A_BOT wrote:

  WOOHOO!!! Following my little campaign to attract more female participation here, today one of the largest social networks for female technologists has put BBC Digital Revolution as an agenda item in their main newsletter.
  
  We can expect more female namestorming and mash-up creativity very very soon!
  
  
  @annecaborn --- When it takes a leading business brand like the FT over forty years from the founding of American feminism in the 1960s to actually compile a list of Top 50 women in business AND then the FT misses out key female technology sector professionals like:
  
  * Marissa Mayer of Google
  * Carol Bartz of Yahoo!
  * Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook
  * Mary Ma of Legend Technology
  
  .......We have some indication of how effective the American/Western "sexual revolution" has been.
  
  * http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/bcfcdb2c-a716-11de-bd14-00144feabdc0.html
  
  
  The velocity (speed, rate and direction) of revolution in the Web has been undeniably higher.
  
  To me, the Web IS a digital revolution. It's disrupted operational, governance and economic systems. It's also democratized resources (information, relationships, content, etc.) and their accessibility. It's constantly revolving on itself, re-examining where code can be made better and then re-iterating the algorithms accordingly.
  
  
  

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• 88. At 1:52pm on 08 Oct 2009, Dan Biddle wrote:

  Is this a 'revolution' we're looking to document? A very good question; one which Aleks (our presenter) is certainly asking all the time during the shoot. And clearly a matter that divides opinion.
  
  Re the names - keep them coming. I've collected a current longlist of possibles for the Series Producer, Russell Barnes, to have a look at and consider - we should be able to come back with some further guidance on contenders, good avenues and dead-ends for you before the week's out.
  
  All these are really great suggestions. Continued thanks for your contributions. Just little thoughts springing up:
  
  @graduatecalling 'Epic Win: The Story of the Internet' I like that. Does 'epic win' get said as much as 'epic fail'?
  
  @A_PERSON_NOT_A_BOT 'Wh@t's Up, Dot?' Nice. We may not end up using it for the series, but you could see that being the title of a one-off special web-isode of Eastenders in a few years time... ;D
  
  Many thanks,
  Dan

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• 89. At 2:59pm on 08 Oct 2009, Mersonwastheperson wrote:

  http://homage_to_the_portal/a_history_of_the_web

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• 90. At 4:00pm on 08 Oct 2009, hannahnicklin wrote:

  Something along the lines of Digital Evolution - because it gives a nod to the fact that it's a continuous process, and takes away the all encompassing feel of 'revolution' - 2/3 of the world don't have access to the internet, due to poverty (of wealth or education) or infrastructure. There's a lot of people's lives it hasn't changed, and a lot of people it's left behind.
  
  Otherwise:
  
  Digital Nativity
  Technoculture, now.
  I, Avatar
  Zeroes and Ones (though you might owe Sadie Plant some money for that one)
  Welcome to the New World.
  The Digital Stage
  Between Worlds
  WikiWorlds
  
  Names are hard.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• 91. At 10:03pm on 08 Oct 2009, Mersonwastheperson wrote:

  hOMAGE tO tHE pORTAL://a.history.of.the.web

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• 92. At 03:00am on 09 Oct 2009, ninerays wrote:

  Just a note about using '@' in the title. @ is not used in web addresses - It is used in email address which existed before the WWW was invented.
  
  The dot is definitely a web thing though.
  
  In my opinion WWW is a revolution - a communication revolution.
  
  
  More name suggestions:-
  
  Dot in the World (well nearly a David Bowie reference - 'What in the world') or of course WWWhat in the world
  
  Dot Dot Slash Slash
  
  dot to dot
  
  Connecting the dots
  
  The Dotty Revolution
  
  The Face of Hyperspace
  
  Watch this Space

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• 93. At 07:46am on 09 Oct 2009, SheffTim wrote:

  I actually think 'Digital Revolution' would do; (but 'digital' also embraces digital photography etc.)
  
  I also see the rise of mobile telephony as being part of the revolution of the past 20/30 years, so perhaps the emphasis is on a communications revolution, interconnectedness and the like?
  
  The name may depend on how wide the scope of your program is going to be? Is it just about the Internet and Web?
  
  The name also needs to 'speak' to those who haven't yet become connected, not just those who are already webheads.

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• 94. At 09:58am on 09 Oct 2009, Dan Biddle wrote:

  @SheffTim - yes, the series is primarily about the Web. Internet of course features inextricably. But it's not really about other technologies which one might consider part of the 'digital revolution' - photography, as you mention, being one such example we won't be covering.

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• 95. At 3:17pm on 09 Oct 2009, matt_jp wrote:

  trapped in the web
  
  caught in the net
  
  captured by the web
  
  relate to our ever incresing dependancy onthe internet, both good and bad points are we trapped in it or does it capture our imagination ?

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• 96. At 3:25pm on 09 Oct 2009, matt_jp wrote:

  Title suggestion : The new silk road
  
  The original Silk Road (or Silk Routes) was an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe.
  
  The internet id the new wil road connecting the wolrd and allowing trad and exchange of ideas more quickly.
  
  also refers to spider silk and the webs they makre from them i.e. the web

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• 97. At 3:33pm on 09 Oct 2009, earthgecko wrote:

  #revolution

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• 98. At 7:55pm on 09 Oct 2009, SheffTim wrote:

  'Re the names - keep them coming.' #88
  Another suggestion for your list of possible interviewees. Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, author of 'Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age'.
  
  "In his new book ... Viktor Mayer-Schönberger argues that forgetting is a natural human process, and that digital technology and cheap storage are creating all sorts of problems, from an assault on privacy, to an inability to make decisions."
  http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/09/full-interview-viktor-mayer-schonberger-on-forgetting-in-a-digital-age/
  
  Apologies if someone else has already suggested him.

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• 99. At 00:21am on 12 Oct 2009, Catchingthewaves wrote:

  TerraBytes

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• 100. At 09:14am on 13 Oct 2009, Dan Biddle wrote:

  Hi there - please note that we have a new blog post about the #bbcnamestorm for the series title. You can watch Stephen Fry (video) on the new post, where he joins Aleks Krotoski to consider some of the suggestions you have made to date.
  
  We also offer our favourites from the long list of 100s of ideas offered so far, and guidance from series producer, Russell Barnes, regards the names, themes and concepts that are best suiting the way the series is shaping up.
  
  Many thanks for all your help and interest so far,
  Dan

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• 101. At 9:39pm on 14 Oct 2009, ginger_mess wrote:

  Just an idea:
  CARPE DIGITAL!

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• 102. At 4:47pm on 19 Oct 2009, areebsa wrote:

  The Cyber Bang

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• 103. At 00:01am on 03 Nov 2009, Catchingthewaves wrote:

  @Earth

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• 104. At 1:28pm on 03 Nov 2009, Catchingthewaves wrote:

  Life Online

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• 105. At 08:40am on 04 Nov 2009, Phil B wrote:

  I suggest:
  
  Connecting the Future
  
  ColonForwardSlash

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