Coping With Complexity: Verisign
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- COI synopsis: This issue looks at a few new ways of managing the increasingly complex problems of modern life. Computer simulations, for instance, show how to cope with the complexity of planning a modern airport and designing a motorway: but coping with complexity doesn’t always involve computers... A complexity where computers are able to help: a person’s signature can identify him as positively as his fingerprint - if you use a computer to analyse every detail of the pen’s movement. Recording the time and shape of every stroke of the pen, this system defeats even the most expert forger.
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Safety devices; Crime; Computers and computing
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
COI Microfilm Roll 51 [BFI National Archive]
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/151
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Peter Greenaway
- Editor
- Peter Greenaway
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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How to cite this record
'Coping With Complexity: Verisign', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 151. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/325631 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)