The Silicon Factor — Season 1, Episode 1: So What's It All About?
Documentary • 40 min • 1 season, 3 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
The silicon chip, unnoticed by most of us a few years ago, is now something everybody has heard about, few understand and many are beginning to fear. Is it really the basis for a revolution as profound as the industrial revolution? Bernard Falk takes a layman's view of what the silicon chip is, how it's made and works. From a Chicago millionaire's home to a Birmingham car-test track, and from a psychiatric hospital in Scotland to a Swedish factory, he looks at how the new technology is being used and what it could do in the future.
About The Silicon Factor
A series of three programmes investigating the so-called microelectronics revolution.