Almost Real: Connecting in a Wired World

What can be driving so many people, all over the world, to use the Internet to threaten, bully, and offend others?

Machines The team showcase breakthroughs in technology and engineering that are creating a new generation of machines. Mark Evans fuses his brain with a computer in Switzerland to test a new breed of machine.

Digital networks are becoming denser. People are online all the time and every day it seems like there are less places where one can really disconnect and be alone. 

“IRL – In Real Life” is a short, light-hearted documentary, which takes a look at the effects of World of Warcraft addiction/compulsion.

Imagine travelling around the world with only a backpack. No access to your bank accounts, no special funding, but instead relying solely on the kindness of strangers.

On 13 November 1974, police discovered six members of the De Feo family shot dead; the father, mother and four of the five children, at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York.

Internet addiction is a growing threat to society in this century. In China, there are over 700 million Internet users and the number is continually growing.

Hundreds of years ago, families lived in extended communities in which people worked together to make sure everybody was taken care of.

An idea born in unsettled times becomes a feat of engineering excellence. The most complex machine ever built to bring humans to and from space and eventually construct the next stop on the road to space exploration.