Explore Challenges
- 16 May: Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy.
- Africa in the 21st Century
G20, pandemics, Thames Estuary, Greenhouse Gases, Rainforests, plastic, HIV/AIDS, Denmark, digital, NHS, online, England, europe, Carbon Capture Storage, Slums, Cameron Sinclair, Green Belt, architecture, SARS, computers
Introduction by Rory Cellan-Jones
- Aired: December 2009,
- Posted: 8th December, 2009
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CHAIR: Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC's Technology Correspondent
Rory started out at as a researcher on BBC Look North in Leeds in 1981, spending most of the early part of his career as a television reporter covering business and industry.
In the mid-'90s, he discovered the internet. which he describes as 'a life-changing experience'.
As a business correspondent, it was the source of a whole new kind of story, as new companies were born, flourished and crashed within months. Rory covered it all for the BBC - and was even called the 'Internet Correspondent' for a few months in 2000 before deciding that the internet was over after the dot com bubble burst.
Rory returned to his previous role, but at home and at work, kept banging on about the profound changes the internet was bringing to our economy and the rest of our lives.
At the beginning of 2007 Rory was made BBC's Technology Correspondent. He now reports on the ever changing developments in the fast paced world of technology. Rory recently returned from Africa, where he was reporting on the birth of internet broadband in Africa.
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Comments
- Joshuarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr said
- 13 May, 2011 at 1:52am
This was a very informative and interesting talk. Thankyou for the enlightening and sophisticated speech!