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technological tidal wave. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> so you've just bought your first personal computer, you brought it home from the store, you're unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if you've just got your first personal computer, this show is for you. >> computers were, in 1990, a disconnected device. it was a brick, right, inside your house, that let you do amazing things that you'd never been able to do before, but it was, essentially, a productivity tool. >> now that we have all these very powerful tools, we are still islands, and we are still not really connecting these peop...

See . This is the brilliance of the show. I say always keep them running. All the time running, run. Run. Run, yasmine, run like the wind. In the 90s, were going to revolutionize Human Communication using desktop computers. Youve got mail. What is the worldwide web . In the world of computers its Kill Or Be Killed. Please welcome bill gates. Do you agree or disagree you have a monopoly . Check out windows 95. This is imac. Its a technological revolution thats taking the way we do everything from making friends to falling in love. When the new millennium arrives so will a technological tidal wa...

More of their shopping online. it's so much mark convenient. the convenience is going to make this the year the shopping really comes of it on the internet. >> this is the time that allowed you to make choices as a consumer without gatekeepers choosing things for you. you could decide, i want that, and you'd get it. you don't live in a big city? you can still get big city stuff. >> a worldwide computer network called the internet has inspired more movies than any big deal technological fads since, oh, the city radio boom. the internet itself, however, is definitely exploding. >> it hit, and wi...

Consumer without gatekeepers choosing things for you. you could decide, i want that, and you'd get it. if you don't live in a big city, you can still get big city stuff. >> the worldwide computer network called the internet has inspired more movies than any big deal, technological fad since, oh, the cb radio boom of the 1970s. the internet itself, however, is definitely exploding. >> it hit, and within like two years, it's become so powerful. >> we're sitting on the most perfect beach in the world and all we can think about is -- >> where can i hook up my modem? >> in 1999, we are culturally, ...

Any reporter who's covered local governments, state, local city stuff can tell you that perhaps the ripest area for corruption is government contracts. i mean local papers around the country ever year are littered with stories of corrupt government officials steering contracts to friends, families, cronies and donors. i mean people go to jail all the time. luckily at the federal level where you've got i mean hundreds of millions even billions of dollars in one contract at stake, there are really stringent regulations governing procurement and awarding of contracts. and the idea is you don't wa...