Visions of Heaven and Hell

The Virtual Wasteland (1x3)

Air date: Feb 14, 1995

Looks at the way that new technology is dividing the world into the information rich and the information poor. Argues that not everyone will have access to new technology, and those who are excluded will be increasingly alienated. The rich are already using technology not to lift the poor up, but to shut them out - to create hi-tech fortresses. Focuses on the case of Singapore - the most technologically advanced country in the world - yet also one of the most repressive.