Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

FBI’s Crime Lab

Get the within story on the state-of-the-art facility exactly where the world’s greatest forensic experts ply their trade. Its beginnings can be traced to a disused lounge in 1932.

But as forensic science took on an more and more essential part in crime fighting, the FBI devoted increasingly more sources to it. Right now, the FBI’s Crime Lab is housed in a very brand-new, $150 million facility on their Quantico campus.

Posted by Sara on November 26th, 2010 No Comments

The Betrayal by Technology: A Portrait of Jacques Ellul

Jacques Ellul was a French theologian/sociologist and anarchist. He initial became well-known to American readers when his guide The Technological Society was published in English in 1964.

This guide leveled a broad critique of technique, a phrase that indicates much more than gadgets and machines – as the English word technology indicates.

For Ellul, technique represented an entire way of life characterized by life fragmented so that efficiency in the end rules more than all ethical decisions.

Posted by Sara on November 25th, 2010 No Comments

Inventions That Changed the World

Jeremy Clarkson hosts Innovations That Modified The World, a sequence which tells the stories behind some of the most substantial inventions which have assisted shape the world we live in these days.

Our daily lives are governed by inventions. From what we wear towards the meals we eat and our techniques of travel – it’s all been invented or considerably altered by inventions.

But sometimes an invention comes along that doesn’t just change the way we do things but changes the world.

Posted by Sara on November 25th, 2010 No Comments

Revolution OS

Revolution OS can be a documentary which traces the history of GNU, Linux, and also the open source and totally free application movements. It features several interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs (and hackers-cum-entrepreneurs), including Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf.

Posted by Sara on August 12th, 2010 No Comments

World Island Wonder

Dubai’s desert landscape is transforming itself to the tourist capital of Earth, and the location on the most audacious reclaimed land project to date. On the depths from the Arabian Gulf, 300 new islands are appearing above the waves to form the world map. It’s so big it may be observed from room and so challenging to construct that it threatens to push the building team to the limit.

Posted by Sara on August 12th, 2010 No Comments

Technocalyps

Are we prepared for dealing with the prospect that humanity is not the end of evolution?

Technocalyps is an intriguing three-part documentary on the notion of trans-humanism by Belgian visual artist and filmmaker Frank Theys.

The latest findings in genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, bionics and nanotechnology appear in the media every day, but with no analysis of their common aim: that of exceeding human limitations.

The director conducts his inquiry into the scientific, ethical and metaphysical dimensions of technological development. The film includes interviews by top experts and thinkers on the subject worldwide.

Posted by Sarah on March 19th, 2010 No Comments

The Machine That Made Us

The Machine That Made Us is a documentary in which Stephen Fry examines the story behind the first media entrepreneur, printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg, to find out why he did it and how, a story which involves both historical inquiry and hands-on craft and technology.

Fry travels across Europe to find out how Gutenberg kept his development work secret, about the role of avaricious investors and unscrupulous competitors and why Gutenberg’s approach started a cultural revolution. He then sets about building a copy of Gutenberg’s press.

Posted by Sarah on March 19th, 2010 No Comments

Web Warriors

A hot summer afternoon in the northeast. Residents of New York and Toronto look forward to the weekend. No one could predict what is about to happen.

In a matter of seconds, 50 million people simply fall off the grid. Phone lines and water systems fail, and thousands of people are trapped in elevators and subways. It is August 14th 2003, and the largest blackout in North American history causes 6 billion in damages. The official cause? Overgrown trees on power lines. But there’s more to this story than troublesome trees.

Just three days earlier on August 11th someone somewhere released one of the most damaging computer viruses ever written: Blaster. It was probably the biggest attack against the Internet ever.

Mikko Hypponen is one of the world’s most respected virus hunters. It is here at F-Secure, an anti-virus lab based in Helsinki, that he and his team first identify Blaster when it hits the Internet. What Astonished Mikko is the impact the virus has on the physical world. Blaster was the first worm that really showed that an attack like this can affect society and normal life.

Posted by Sarah on March 19th, 2010 No Comments

Video Game Invasion

A breakthrough documentary on the multi-billion dollar industry & the pioneers behind the blips on the screen.

Decades later it’s all gone extreme! Go beyond the pixels and behind the scenes for the true story about video games.

Hosted by Tony Hawk, world champion skateboarder and co-creator of such hit video games as “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” and “Tony Hawk’s Underground”.

Video Game Invasion explores the creation of video games in an entertaining and comprehensive fashion, taking viewers through the maze of games that comprised the evolution of video gaming.

Posted by Sarah on March 19th, 2010 No Comments

Download: The True Story of the Internet

Download: The True Story of the Internet is about a revolution — the technological, cultural, commercial and social revolution that has radically changed our lives. And for the first time on television, we hear how it happened from the men and women who made it possible.

From the founders of eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, Netscape, Google and many others, we hear amazing stories of how, in ten short years, the Internet took over our lives. These extraordinary men and women tell us how they went from being geeky, computer obsessed nerds to being 21st-century visionaries in the time it takes most people to get their first promotion. And, how they made untold billions along the way.

The style of the story-telling is up close and personal. With first-hand testimony from the people that matter, we tell a story that has all the excitement of a thriller — full of battles and back-stabbing, moments of genius and moments of sheer hilarity. You will never surf the net in the same way again.

Download is hosted by technology journalist John Heileman. He’s an edgy, combative, hi-energy New Yorker who never takes anything at face value. He’s also a personal friend of most of Silicon Valley’s most important characters and he revels in craziness of it all. After all, this is a story in which 20-year-olds become overnight billionaires, create, destroy and re-create more wealth in ten years then human race has ever seen, and still struggle to get a date.

Posted by Sarah on March 19th, 2010 No Comments