Frontline's "Digital Nation" Airs Tonight! Ask the Producer Your Questions!
Posted by Motherboard on Tuesday, Feb 02, 2010
Douglas Rushkoff and Rachel Dretzin, the correspondent/producer team behind one of our very favorite let’s-step-out-of-the-Matrix-for-a-moment documentaries, The Merchants of Cool, have managed to pull themselves away from the internet long enough to aim their zoom lenses on it.
With their eyebrows firmly cocked (and channeling some of Jaron Lanier’s skepticism), their new documentary “Digital Nation,” which airs on PBS tonight at 9:00 pm, examines how the Web has transformed virtually every thing we thought we knew, from reading and learning to holding meetings and launching missile attacks. Is technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? Is this post about the length of your attention span?
We’re going to speak to producer Rachel Dretzin this afternoon. Watch a preview above and put your questions or ideas for her in the comments.
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Sam_Gellman about 1 month ago
Anything positive you found out about the internet? Any exhilarating, promising moments? Or is it all a terrible, anonymous comment-bashing, attention-deficit disordering, video-game-addicting, hyper-marketing apocalyptic maelstrom of 0s and 1s?
localola about 1 month ago
i don't think the internet is bad as long as you know how to use it for good. take social media. it brings us together. fastest way to raise money in haiti: text messages, websites, social media, etc. i think this is an exciting time for us! entering the digital age!
AmunRubirosa about 1 month ago
Why shouldn't "the Web has transformed virtually every thing we thought we knew?" Nothing should stagnate, so why knowledge, or what we think we know? Why is there such resistance? I'd really like to know. I can venture that various people/orgs/institutions want to be able to control things, and they find they are losing their control, and fast. It's getting harder for Govts to censor things as effectively as they have. It's getting harder for "Academic/education institutions" be they primary/secondary schools, colleges/universities, museums/think tanks, etc to keep their hold on "what is or isn't" true/knowledge/history/fit to teach//etc, it's definitely getting harder for the "traditional media" to control what it thinks the masses should know...So is it a fear of loss of control?
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