mb video selection's video: Information Technology - Visions of Heaven and Hell

A prescient précis from David Byrne (frontman of Talking Heads) in 1994, looking ahead to when the year 2000 was still 6 years away, foreseeing the benefits and curses the burgeoning absorption of Information Technology into our lives would bring: "I suppose at the end of the Millennium, people have millenial thoughts They get millenial fever They get religious fever And all kinds of fevers That they expect there's going to be a summing up And that we're going to make a big step into the next phase Of whatever we do And it becomes almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy I think people pack their bags And get ready But the act of packing your bags Makes things happen Even if they weren't going to happen anyway." A Mentorn Barraclough Carey Production for Channel 4 1 03040 04