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The programme comprises a critical look at the possible Futures for Alternative Technology
The programme comprises a critical look at the possible Futures for Alternative Technology
| Module code and title: | T262, Man-made futures: design and technology |
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| Item code: | T262; 11 |
| First transmission date: | 28-09-1975 |
| Published: | 1975 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:09 |
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| Producer: | Colin Robinson |
| Contributors: | David Elliott; Peter Glasner |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Alternative technology; Development; Economic feasability; Social change; Solar radiation |
| Footage description: | The programme opens with an insert from an interview with E.F. Schumacher who talks about the virtues of small scale technology. Dave Elliott reviews some of the examples of alternative technology (AT) examined in the course. Shots of BRAD and the New Alchemists. Film shots of a large automated brickworks in operation. Shots of bricks being transported on lorries. As an example of AT, John Parry demonstrates a model of a small brick production system which operates on renewable fuels. He explains how such a brickworks would operate. Peter Glaser discusses the future prospects for AT in terms of its market potential. He goes on to discuss some of the highly sophisticated technologies, such as solar power via satellites, which are being developed. Glaser and Elliott raise the question of involvement of big corporations in AT. George McRobie discusses the effect of AT on the existing social and economic systems. He sees a possible gradual decentralisation. Peter Harper discusses the possibility of AT being absorbed in the present system and becoming just another marketable commodity. Harper goes on to describe how this absorption of AT by the present system can be avoided. Ian Hogan and Dave Elliott discuss the economic and technological viability of AT. Dave Elliott sums up. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71790 |
| Production number: | 00525_5193 |
| Videofinder number: | 2669 |
| Available to public: | no |
