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Originally released in the mid-1980s, Miniature Miracle takes us back to a time when computers were just a peripheral element of everyday life. While classrooms were beginning to use simple computer programs as teaching tools, the heavy-duty work was still conducted almost exclusively by programmers at research institutions. The focus of the film is not really the computer chip itself (as the title suggests), but its early applications in the realms of science and art: robots designed to assist people with physical disabilities, specialized suits created to record and reproduce every nuance of human motion, and complex three-dimensional images built from simple black-and-white graphs. The human brain is touted by the filmmakers as the rough equivalent of all the computers in the world connected to each other, sending and receiving thousands of signals simultaneously. By that definition, we may not be too far from a hostile takeover by our laptops. --Claire Campbell
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 2000 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Nat'l Geographic Vid |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Documentary, Movie, TV Shows |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 727994512912 |