DIGITAL BEING
Digital Being is a series of Open University TV short programmes. In the digital age everything is known instantly, copied endlessly, transmitted everywhere. What are we doing to ourselves, and to our society?

Relationships - BBC2 Thursday 7th November 2002 06:30am
Is technology a gift from the gods? Does it keep us in chains, seeing shadows of reality on the walls of a cave? Questions pondered by Dr. Janet Radcliffe Richards, Jim Fitzgerald and Blay Whitby.

Identity - - BBC2 Thursday 14th November 2002 06:30am
Will technology allow us to define and design our own identities? Can we obliterate our past, changing how we represent ourselves to the brave new world? Can a computer map our soul?

Imagination - BBC2 Thursday 21st November 2002 06:30am
Computers are allowing architects and engineers to resolve complexity in an easier and faster way. Zaha Hadid and Hanif Tara explore the use virtual space in building design.

Knowledge - BBC2 Thursday 28th November 2002 06:30am
Is knowledge the same as information? Is the processing of information synonymous with creativity? Will we live in a world where everyone gives the same answers to life's questions?

Spontaneity - BBC2 Thursday 5th December 2002 06:30am
Can a computer ever replicate the complex patterns and interactions of nature? Or will the spontaneous chaos of our world remain in the physical realm? Will computers ever be able to dance?

Consciousness - BBC2 Thursday 12th December 2002 06:30am
Could a machine ever win a Nobel prize for its work? Prof. Susan Greenfield and Prof. Brian Greene explore the notion of consciousness, and speculate whether computers will ever achieve it.