Archive On 4 - In The Beginning Was The Nerd

Stephen Fry recalls the worldwide panic surrounding the online Armageddon promised by the so-called Millennium Bug. Who or what was to blame for such an expensive and unnecessary panic? He looks back through the BBC archives to the beginning of the digital age to argue that a major cause was ingrained suspicions of technology and the people who created it. Shortened. Rptd on Monday at 3pm