Description: This hi-tech version of the annual Faraday lecture opens with the line: "This is a programme about the future". Mike Watson, technical director of International Computers, takes viewers through the history of information technology and its role in the future of the country and the lives of his young audience, offering "the opportunity of a lifetime" for those young people to work in the rapidly developing information technology field.

This forward-looking presentation equates success with our ability to effectively adopt information technology, comparing the work of Michael Faraday and the dynamo with the modern day equivalent - the computer. The programme provides an insight into a world on the cusp of a technology revolution, while simultaneously demonstrating how much social revolution is still to come, with Watson using 'man' to denote both species and gender in all his examples.