Hey! The Future Just Happened which began tonight on BBC2 is something of a departure for British television. Anyone who sat through an episode of
Dotcomedy has a pretty good idea of how the Internet is viewed by television. A frivolity. Something other. It especially isn't a
community for goodness sake. Here instead was a serious view of the net presenting it as a land of opportunity and adventure. Fascinatingly, we caught a glimpse of
Google or rather Google's headquarters, a typically mirrored building in Silicon Valley. The place has a workforce. A large workforce. Who play roller-hockey and basketball between flirting and eating. Hundreds of people. Now look at the website. What are all of these people actually doing?