Cook reads further into the series' theme of child empowerment, writing that "Joe 90" creates a "technological utopia" around youth. He comments: "Through the character of Joe, his brain hardwired at the start of each episode into the BIG RAT supercomputer, the young are shown to be literally at one with technology." Cook suggests that BIG RAT's ability to provide Joe with instant access to brain patterns could be interpreted as a prediction of the development of the Internet. With his added knowledge and experience, Joe becomes the manifestation of "homo superior", and yet his youth and imagination grant him the power to change the world in ways that no adult could. In this respect, Cook regards "Joe 90" as a forerunner of "The Tomorrow People", another series featuring themes of transcendence in children. This concept, Cook suggests, is evident in the title ""Joe 90"" itself: "No longer is a nine-year-old boy but instead his status and capacities have been multiplied tenfold to transform him into agent 'Joe 90', his name an appealing futuristic echo of the then distant year of 1990."