Opportunity of a Lifetime
From the collection of
Fighting Crime with Science
- Islington
- 2003
Opportunity of a Lifetime
Mike Watson of International Computers Ltd, presents a programme aimed at enticing young people to work with information technology.
This hi-tech version of the annual Faraday lecture opens with the line: "This is a programme about the future". Mike Watson, technical director of International Computers, takes viewers through the history of information technology and its role in the future of the country and the lives of his young audience, offering "the opportunity of a lifetime" for those young people to work in the rapidly developing information technology field.
This forward-looking presentation equates success with our ability to effectively adopt information technology, comparing the work of Michael Faraday and the dynamo with the modern day equivalent - the computer. The programme provides an insight into a world on the cusp of a technology revolution, while simultaneously demonstrating how much social revolution is still to come, with Watson using 'man' to denote both species and gender in all his examples.
This video is from the IET Archives, a member of the London's Screen Archives Network.
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The IEE Faraday Lecture Series
Lecture series encouraging students to embrace the technologies of the future.
From 1924, the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now the Institution of Engineering and Technology) delivered an annual lecture in honour of Michael Faraday, pioneer of electromagnetism and electrochemistry, with the aim of encouraging young people to consider a career in electrical engineering.
With the advent of video, the lectures were shown in science lessons across the UK, and recorded since the 1970s in front of a largely student audience. Each lecture was delivered in partnership with an organisation working at the forefront of new and developing technologies. The videos are full of fun experiments, audience participation and increasingly futuristic computer graphics. The presenters talk with wide-eyed wonder about the potential of the internet, TV, and mobile telephones, inspiring young viewers to be part of this exciting new future.
17 videos in this collection
1
Fighting Crime with Science
2
Electric Currency
3
Sound FX: Making Music with Technology
4
Emission Impossible
5
Electricity in the Service of Man (Pt 1)
6
Electricity in the Service of Man (Pt 2)
7
Beyond the Telephone
8
Let There Be Light (pt 1)
9
Let There Be Light (pt 2)
10
Let's Build a Satellite
11
Your Generation
12
Smart Living @ Home with Technology
13
Digital World
14
Photon Connection
15
Entertaining Electron
16
Diagnostic Electron
17