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Season 1

  • S01E01 Digital Doctors

    • January 1, 1996

    The medical profession has discovered the Internet as a powerful tool to speed diagnosis and exchange treatment plans. One doctor has even discovered a whole new condition, Internet Addictive Disorder - what can happen if you spend too much of your life on the Internet.

  • S01E02 HollyNet

    • January 1, 1996

    Hollywood's heart, it has been said, is the place just below its wallet. So imagine its heart rate when it discovered the marketing potential of cyberspace. Find out how Josh Greer is helping to bring the Big Screen to your desktop.

  • S01E03 Next Stop The Future

    • January 1, 1996

    The future of the Internet points to its continued growth in practical usefulness - eventually becoming a ubiquitous fixture in our normal lives, quite possibly as common a household utility as the telephone.

  • S01E04 Cyber Students

    • January 1, 1996

    In education, like almost everywhere else on the Internet, the impetus has come form the grassroots up - not from the top down. And the education establishment is now discovering that individual schools, educators and parents are simply no longer prepared to wait for the old system to catch up and introduce the Internet in a traditional, widespread and orderly manner.

  • S01E05 Sounds From Cyberspace

    • January 1, 1996

    In space there is no sound. Not so in Cyberspace, where new audio Net technologies promise to let us hear the world's chorus, and become our own broadcasters.

  • S01E06 Internauts

    • January 1, 1996

    No one is native to cyberspace; we are all immigrants, colonizing the net in droves. But who, exactly, are we sharing our dual citizenship with, and how are we changing the face of the net?

  • S01E07 Net Profits

    • January 1, 1996

    Online sales were expected to reach $1 billion by the end of 1995. Out of the thousands of hopeful "cyberpreneurs", who'll make it, and how will they do it?

  • S01E08 Internetworking

    • January 1, 1996

    Newsgroups are the town square of the Internet; a place where literally millions of people gather to debate, preach, get information or just leave a group message for anyone who cares about the same subject.

  • S01E09 Electric Ink

    • January 1, 1996

    In the fiercely competitive world of magazine publishing, only the smart and strong survive. In the seemingly non-hostile environment of cyberspace, can electronic magazines escape the laws of Darwin?

  • S01E10 Cyber Secrets

    • January 1, 1996

    Law enforcement agencies say in the wrong hands (PGP) and E-mail encryption software threatens the public good. Its author, Phil Zimmermann, says it's about anyone's right to personal privacy.

  • S01E11 Electric Mail

    • January 1, 1996

    E-mail has changed the way people live and work. Find out how, and how a particular software author helped make it easy for millions of people to communicate with each other.

  • S01E12 Spiritual Surfers

    • January 1, 1996

    From official religions with millions of followers, to sites for potential cults still looking for their first converts, the Internet offers a spiritual smoegasbord for every hungry, curious or questioning cybersoul.

  • S01E13 Digital Dollars

    • January 1, 1996

    Electronic cash has already entered the flow of money that makes the world go 'round. But are we ready to take the final step and open our wallets to cyberspace?