Its Big and Its Beautiful - The Rise of Retro Tech - BBC Radio Documentary - cheops

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    <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://radioarchive.cc/torrents-details.php?id=3511">It's Big and It's Beautiful - The Rise of Retro Tech - BBC Radio Documentary - cheops</a></span><!--bold--></span><!--underline--><br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Christine Finn</span><!--bold--> is an archaeologist who has forsaken the digging of trenches to travel the world, chronicling the rapid transit of old into new. In the opening program she meets a Japanese collector who shows her, reverently, a book sized object. It was a motherboard from an Apple 1 computer that would have cost <span style="font-weight: bold;">$666 in 1976</span><!--bold-->. That same motherboard sold for <span style="font-weight: bold;">$25,000 in 2000</span><!--bold-->.<br /> <br /> She explores the techno cycle, invention to tech-antique, big prototype to tiny latest model, our time to ages past...<br /> <br /> Four episodes of approximately 15 minutes each.<br /> <br /> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode 1:</span><!--bold--></span><!--underline--><br /> Archaeologist Christine Finn examines the importance of collectors of old technology and their mission to educate and inspire. Focusing on California's Silicon Valley, she argues for the past being important for understanding the technology of the future and considers the various generations of computers and those who collect them.<br /> <br /> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode 2:</span><!--bold--></span><!--underline--><br /> In the heart of the Industrial Revolution in Shropshire, Christine Finn proposes that being 'luddite' is no bad thing: far from closing their eyes to progress, the 19th century workers who protested against industrialisation by destroying mechanical looms were prescient about the consequences of the mechanical age. She examines whether the luddites of today - those who refuse to embrace the ever newer, ever smaller technologies on offer - are similarly prescient.<br /> <br /> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode 3:</span><!--bold--></span><!--underline--><br /> Christine Finn reviews 'retro tech' as a form of aesthetic, asking whether the many designers and consumers who use old forms of technology are being ironic, or do these products have a function which allows a slower and more considered interaction? Do the young Japanese clutching early 90s mobiles really find them easier to use? Are writers who use typewriters simply afraid of change, or are they making a statement about working with what works for them, and not adopting new technology simply because it is there.<br /> <br /> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Episode 4:</span><!--bold--></span><!--underline--><br /> Christine Finn reflects on Cuba, on the cusp of technological change, but where the old still holds sway. And she asks whether the relentless push for the 'mini' and the 'micro' really promotes better communication.<br /> <br /> First broadcast from 8-11/9/2008 on BBC Radio 3.<br /> _______________________<br /> <br /> Type : mpeg 1 layer III<br /> Bitrate : 128 <br /> Mode : joint stereo<br /> Frequency : 44100 Hz<br /> Encoder : RMConverter<br /> _______________________<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">BBCiPlayer+HiDownload+RMConverter=MP3 </span><!--bold--> <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://cheops.fm">http://cheops.fm</a><br /> <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://radioarchive.cc">http://radioarchive.cc</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - the Spoken-Word Radio Torrent Archive</span><!--bold-->
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