Celebrating twenty years of the internet, ‘The Virtual Revolution’ explores how the web is continuing to reshape our lives.

The four-part series kicks off on Saturday 30 January focusing on the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube; tracing “an ongoing clash between the freedom the technology offers us, and our innate human desire to control and profit”.

Exploring how far the web has lived up to its early promises the presenter, Dr Aleks Krotoski, has an impressive list of interviewees; Tim Berners-Lee (the MIT engineer behind the web), Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos accompanied with Al Gore, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak and Stephen Fry.

Reflecting its subject matter, the programme has grown in public on BBC website – the name of the programme itself being crowd-sourced and changed from the working title “Digital Revolution”.

The Virtual Revolution on BBC Two, Saturday 30 January, 20:30

Sources: BBC, Open2.net, Gizmodo