Stephen Fry - In The Beginning Was The Nerd (BBC Radio)

Stephen Fry - In The Beginning Was The Nerd - Audio Documentary - BBC Radio 4 via DVB-T  



1 x  60 Minute Episodes - 128Kbps - Mp3







The Western world, with a few notable exceptions, poured billions of dollars into electronic pesticides to defeat the Y2K bug. Only to find that for the most part it could have been defeated by turning the systems off then on again.



So, why the silence when the bug didn't bite? The answer's in the programme. Politicians, experts and businessmen all profited in status or cash from the threat. In the media - to paraphrase the crime reporters - it bled so it led. In the USA, government brazenly claimed victory for its defeat. 



In reality, the enemy was almost totally imaginary. But it's useless blaming the great and the good. It was inevitable. We'd been told repeatedly that this brilliant new technology would change the world. Then we were told it could all stop on the stroke of one spookily special midnight. We were the newly addicted, suddenly faced with the prospect that our supply was fatally endangered. There was only one thing we could do. Panic. Then spend millions fixing it. Sorry, that's two things.









Audio Format    : MP3

Duration Approx : 56mn

Bit rate mode   : Constant

Bit rate        : 128 Kbps 

Channel(s)      : 2 channels

Sampling rate   : 44.1 KHz

Resolution      : 16 bits







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