Episode 4

Overview

In an edition considering computers and memory, Fenella George meets some of Britain's computing pioneers, including the world's first programmer Tom Kilburn, and looks at the rebuilt wartime Colossus, the first electronic computer. Benjamin Woolley talks to futurologist Peter Cochrane, who claims that human memories could soon be captured on computer chips. Plus there's a look at the pastime of retro-gaming, where people re-create the experience of playing computer games of the late seventies and early eighties.