With insights from Bill Gates, William Gibson, Stephen Hawking and other luminaries of the virtual world, Visions of Heaven And Hell examines the implications of the communications boom. A victim of its own success, the industry is now in the hands of a few all-powerful businessmen. Can our virtual conscience be manipulated by these information 'controllers'? Just as important is the growing divide between the information rich and the information poor. This three-part series visits Singapore, the most technologically advanced society in the world. Far from being a Utopian community, it is one of the most repressive societies in the world. As the series discovers, the rich/poor divide is only accentuated by technology
With insights from Bill Gates, William Gibson, Stephen Hawking and other luminaries of the virtual world, Visions of Heaven And Hell examines the implications of the communications boom. A victim of its own success, the industry is now in the hands of a few all-powerful businessmen. Can our virtual conscience be manipulated by these information 'controllers'? Just as important is the growing divide between the information rich and the information poor. This three-part series visits Singapore, the most technologically advanced society in the world. Far from being a Utopian community, it is one of the most repressive societies in the world. As the series discovers, the rich/poor divide is only accentuated by technology
