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Episode 1

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Last broadcast on Mon, 1 Mar 2010, 03:05 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Since its birth almost twenty years ago, the World Wide Web has transformed our world : A quarter of the planet is now online and able as never before to communicate, publish, and garner information seemingly without limits. But will the Web’s empowerment of ordinary people endure? As part of the BBC’s internet season, the computer expert Doctor Aleks Krotoski starts her four part series by documenting the Web’s remarkable growth and asking if the old hierarchies it challenges are managing to stage a counter revolution.

Broadcasts

  1. Mon 22 Feb 2010
    10:05
  2. Mon 22 Feb 2010
    15:05
  3. Mon 22 Feb 2010
    20:05
  4. Tue 23 Feb 2010
    01:05
  5. Sat 27 Feb 2010
    11:05
  6. Sun 28 Feb 2010
    14:05
  7. Mon 1 Mar 2010
    03:05

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