Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Communicating: Computers (1985x6)

Air date: Jan 11, 1986

One day computers and robots may be able to do all our work and chores. Is this a real vision of the future or just a fantasy? In the last of this year's lectures, Professor David Pye explores the fantastic development of computers in recent years. If computers are fitted with sensors, so that they can touch, see and even speak, they become robots. On earth robots are still primitive, but in other galaxies....