Equinox

The King of Chaos (1998x1)

Date de diffusion: Jan 01, 1998

Docu-drama of what the media might be like by the year 2012. EQUINOX's first drama, set in the future, focuses on the facts behind the suspicious death of media mogul, Liam Keller, whose software applications have had a huge impact upon broadcast TV, earning him enemies around the world. In the late 1990s, Keller had devised `Gambit', a virus which enabled all technologies (the internet, television broadcasting, e-mail) to converge - to communicate with one another. Found floating in the Thames, a television current affairs programme sets out to explore how Keller might have met his death. Through Keller's life story this drama explores the consequences of future technology, reflecting on what might happen to our present day media over the next few years. The programme also includes interviews with leading futurologists, including British Telecom's Director of Research Peter Cochrane.