1994: FIBRE OPTICS - Delivering Your INTERACTIVE FUTURE? | Newsnight | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

"Would it be a dream come true - giving people more freedom and greater opportunity - or a nightmare, where humans become complete couch potatoes?" - Sue Cameron. Can you imagine a world where your television has hundreds of channels, a world where you have the ability to directly interact with TV game shows, and a world where you can shop and perhaps even work directly from your home? It may sound like science fiction, but this extraordinary technical utopia is closer than you might think. Soon concepts like cyberspace, the digital superhighway and the world wide web will be as familiar to us all as newspapers, telephones and libraries. Sam Roberts reports on the use of fibre optic cable - a British invention that has been around for three decades - in the forthcoming Telecommunications Revolution. Should the cyber revolution be led and regulated by government, or left to market forces? Clip taken from Newsnight, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 8 February, 1994. You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults. Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive - https://www.youtube.com/c/BBCArchive?... You can also dive into plenty more BBC Archive on our website - https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive