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- Countryside in Crisis?
- The Energy Water Food Stress Nexus
- Unsustainable Fishing
- Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
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- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
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- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
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- Engineering our climate
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- 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
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Keeping pace with a digital revolution
BBC Radio 4: Start the Week: The Digital Future feat. Nick Harkaway (7 May 2012)
The internet is rapidly evolving to play a central role in society, transforming social, cultural, economic and political landscapes.The benefits are clear, but are societies equipped to keep pace with the consequences of our increasing reliance on this technology?
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Dr Aleks Krotoski PhD
Academic, journalist and host of the Guardian's Tech Weekly podcast
Ben Hammersley
Editor-at-large of WIRED UK magazine and UK Prime Minister's ambassador…
Nick Harkaway
Author of The Blind Giant, examining technology's influence on politics, society,…
Ben Hammersley
Editor-at-large of WIRED UK magazine and UK Prime Minister's ambassador to TechCity.
Nick Harkaway
Author of The Blind Giant, examining technology's influence on politics, society, and commerce.
INTERVIEW: Dr Sue Black
Leader of the campaign to Save Bletchley Park, Founder of The GoTo Foundation &…
INTERVIEW: Professor Alan Woodward
The disruptive nature of the internet and how it is changing our world.
The exponential growth of the internet
The exponential growth and spread of the world wide web…
INTERVIEW: Tom Chatfield
The author and tech commentator on technology's effect on society.
INTERVIEW: Dr Sue Black
Leader of the campaign to Save Bletchley Park, Founder of The…
INTERVIEW: Professor Alan Woodward
The disruptive nature of the internet and how it is…