When the journalistic team behind Frontline puts out a program, everyone expect greatness, and you won't be disappointed by this episode investigating the invasive digital world surrounding us.
You will witness colorful brain scans that prove today’s multitaskers do not possess such ominous skills as they proudly profess, businesses that have closed down their offices and opened a Second Life account, and today’s kids that never knew a world unconnected. A great deal of this hour long program focusses on students and teachers. Some teachers embrace their tech savvy students and their digital devices, while some sill maintain that a successful student should stay focused on the written page.
They interview eccentric entrepreneurs pushing the boundaries of technology by introducing immersive 3-D worlds -- worlds that lead some to the marriage altar and some to rehab. One moving scene shows kids playing 3-D war games at a suspect Army recruiting center in Philadelphia then there is a qucik cut away to a computer screen of a Predator (an unmanned fighter plane) pilot honing his crosshairs on a very real caravan of Afghani Taliban.
I never miss a Frontline, thanks to my digital recorder, and once again I am rewarded by their mastery of television reporting.
Here is a link to a ton of extra video inspired by the show: (Click Here)
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