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A tech-savvy journalist uncovers dark secrets of connectivity, risking her life to reveal how technology disconnects us from each other.
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The first mobile phones just popped up in the rain forest of Sri Lanka where the ascendents of the Vedda tribe have lived for thousands of years. The chief is strongly against the telecommunication boom and sees mobiles as the gadgets of the evil.
Can the young Buddhist monks meditate if they are constantly on Instagram? An exclusive meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama who has been financially supporting a dictionary application to conserve Tibetan culture for the future.
How does smart technology change the way of life and way of thinking in one of the biggest slums in the world? An intimate portrait of two women and their families living in Dharavi, home to a million poor people, surrounded by Mumbai's boosting financial district's skyscrapers.
Two islands on the Indian Ocean, just 600 meters apart. Soneva Fushi is one of the most expensive private island resorts in the world where superstars and aristocrats pay a fortune for a digital detox. Across the water on the local island Maldivians changed their fishing net to the internet in just a decade, spending 12-14 hours on their smartphones every day.
Three American women who lost everything due to being sensitive to electromagnetic radiation. In cities like New York they lost their jobs, their homes, their families and social status. They had no choice but leaving everything behind. After years of suffering and isolation in the woods and in trailers, eventually they found Green Bank, a sleepy little town in West Virginia. It is one of the very few places in the US where electrosensitive people can live without symptoms. Here there is no mobile phone network or WIFI due to the world's largest fully steerable telescope which needs the National Radio Quiet Zone around it to be able to operate properly - More and more electrosensitive people escape here, however, locals don't welcome them with open arms.
The past few decades' developments in technology and telecommunications are moving the world forward at an astonishing pace - in a certain sense. In the history of mankind we have never been connected to so many people as now while we never spent as little time face to face with each other as we do nowadays. The 9th season of On the Spot discovers the effects of mobile coverage, wifi and smartphones of human communities from New York to Transylvnia.