The Machine That Changed the World: The World at Your Fingertips (1992)
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[0:00] California
[0:00] >> that changed the world. [music] A world
[0:02] where information flows across oceans
[0:05] and continents. Some of it highly
[0:07] personal.
[0:08] >> You and I are counted and [music]
[0:10] recorded and questioned and dossiered
[0:13] and filed.
[0:15] Probably more than any people on earth.
[0:19] The world at your fingertips.
[0:23] Coming up [music] on the machine that
[0:25] changed the world.
[0:29] Funding is made possible by Unicus,
[0:31] meeting the missionritical information
[0:33] systems needs of business and government
[0:35] worldwide. At UNICEUS, we make it
[0:37] happen. And by the 90,000 members of the
[0:40] ACM, computer professionals advancing
[0:42] human capabilities through information
[0:44] technology and the National Science
[0:47] Foundation.
[0:50] [music]
[0:56] You see it [music]
[1:00] [singing]
[1:04] [music]
[1:06] victory.
[1:10] [music]
[1:11] We [singing] are
[1:13] M.
[1:16] [music]
[1:21] [music]
[1:28] [music]
[1:33] >> [music]
[1:43] [music]
[1:43] >> 45 years ago, there was only one working
[1:46] electronic computer in the world.
[1:51] [music] It filled a room and cost in
[1:53] today's money $3 million.
[1:56] [music] And people at the time
[1:57] confidently predicted that the United
[1:59] States would only ever need six such
[2:02] machines.
[2:04] [music]
[2:05] Today, there are millions of computers
[2:08] used for so many kinds [music] of things
[2:10] that it is tempting to think that the
[2:12] main act of the computer revolution is
[2:14] over. [music] But this view might be the
[2:17] most mistaken of all. For something
[2:19] profound is happening. Millions of
[2:22] computers [music] all over the world are
[2:24] being joined together in networks. As
[2:27] the machines talk to each other, [music]
[2:28] they are transforming the ways in which
[2:30] people interact,