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The Dream Machine

1991

1 season

5 episodes

Documentary

A five-part series about the origins, history and impact of the computer, a machine that changed the world.

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Cast

Andrew Sachs

Lesley Judd

Ep 1
1.Giant Brains
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Englishman Charles Babbage conceived the basic idea of a computer about 150 years ago, as a machine that would eliminate error and relieve humans of the tedium of calculation. But...
Ep 2
2.Inventing the Future
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Forty-five years ago a few brave souls risked everything to prove that computers were destined for more than just the laboratory. Interviews: Ted Withington (network engineer, in...
Ep 3
3.The Paperback Computer
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The manuscripts of the Middle Ages, available to only a select priesthood, turned into the paperback book. How close are we to the "paperback" computer? The development of the pers...
Ep 4
4.The Thinking Machine
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By the 1960s, a computer could do university-level calculus and play chess, but the search for a true thinking machine turned out to be a lot more difficult than anyone had dreamed...
Ep 5
5.The Passing of Remoteness
15-12-199158m
The tens of millions of computers in the world have begun talking to one another. This "networking" has allowed all sorts of new communities to grow up, regardless of distance. But...

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