The Future
Peter Singer, Cordelia Fine, Garry Kasparov, AI and Algorithmns, Tim O’Reilly. All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
Why go into space?
Christopher Harding investigates the history, culture and science of space exploration.
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Valis and Philip K Dick
A weirdly autobiographical science fiction novel from 1981, inspired by hallucinations.
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Dystopian thinking
As Kay Dick's They opens at MIF, Matthew Sweet and guests trace the history of dystopias.
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Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes
Novelist R F Kuang, Dr Kerry McInerney, Ghislaine Boddington and MIT's Daron Acemoglu.
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AI and creativity: what makes us human?
A discussion hosted by Matthew Sweet at the Barbican's exhibition AI More Than Human.
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Orwell's 1984 - a Landmark of Culture
Matthew Sweet explores what fed into Orwell's future vision and how our own is shaping up.
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Is the Law keeping up with our changing world?
A panel of researchers share insights into the law and warfare, gender and AI.
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Hay Festival: PJ O'Rourke, Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner
PJ O'Rourke and writers of Freakonomics join Rana Mitter at the 2015 Hay Festival.
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Should we keep pets?
Anne McElvoy leads a discussion on the history and ethics of pet ownership.
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Improving or Ruining the Future? Kevin Rudd. Finland 100.
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith share visions of the future with Rana Mitter. Plus Kevin Rudd.
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Gentrification
Essayist Adam Gopnik talks to Shahidha Bari about city living. Plus artist Lucinda Rogers.
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Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.
BBC news head James Harding reviews a stage version of Paddy Chayefsky's Network.
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Ray Kurzweil discusses the radical possibilities of a world where humans and intelligent machines live side by side
Rana Mitter talks to renowned American inventor, thinker and futurist Ray Kurzweil.
Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.
Anne McElvoy talks to the tech media man who popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0
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Royal Society Science Book Prize. Adrian Owen. Science in India.
Matthew Sweet looks at the writing of science and the Royal Society Science Book Prize.
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Man and Machine, Wyndham Lewis, Simon Beard
Philip Dodd explores AI with Garry Kasparov. Plus vorticism and overpopulation.
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Narcissism: Will Storr, Olivia Sudjic, Tom Jackson and Sophie Scott
Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore our perceived obsession with the self.
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Bella Bathurst, Mike Figgis, Birds in British literature, 2017 New Generation Thinker Daisy Fancourt on music and health
Matthew Sweet explores deafness, plot twists, birds in books & how music is good for you
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Robots, Makt Myrkranna
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the implications of our increasing reliance on robotics.
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Our Relationship with Animals
Shahidha Bari looks at computing for cats, de-extinction and an animal symphony.
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Voices in Our Ears: Colin Grant, Josie Rourke, Charles Fernyhough, Clare Walker Gore
Matthew Sweet discusses epilepsy, Wilkie Collins and a theatre production of Joan of Arc.
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Richard Hakluyt, Man Booker Prize, Chickens in the Anthropocene, Shirley Jackson
Includes Richard Hakluyt's legacy, chickens and the 2016 Man Booker Prize.
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Developments in Neuroscience, Krzysztof Zanussi, Peaceful Resistance
Rana Mitter discusses new developments in neuroscience.
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Walter Benjamin, the Soviet Superwoman, Munch
Anne McElvoy discusses the fiction of Walter Benjamin and the Soviet superwoman.
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