Now the Chips Are Down

Series: Horizon Series

Duration: 0:55:00

Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation | Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Gives a history of the silicon chip microprocessor, showing how microprocessors are made and discussing readers for the blind, computer-driven tractors, robots on the assembly line, word processors, and computer games. Suggests many ways that silicon chip technology may further change industry, medicine, recreation, agriculture, and communications. Examines the rise of the software industry, and its projected importance. Poses possible problems of large scale automation, including displacement and unemployment, and concludes that the effect on quality of life must be weighed carefully with the possible misuse of the new technology.

Complete Record: , Gives a history of the silicon chip microprocessor, showing how microprocessors are made and discussing readers for the blind, computer-driven tractors, robots on the assembly line, word processors, and computer games. Suggests many ways that silicon chip technology may further change industry, medicine, recreation, agriculture, and communications. Examines the rise of the software industry, and its projected importance. Poses possible problems of large scale automation, including displacement and unemployment, and concludes that the effect on quality of life must be weighed carefully with the possible misuse of the new technology.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.