55: Baroness Susan Greenfield
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Baroness Susan Greenfield's subject is the impact of 21st century technology on society, broadcast around 8.30am in Breakfast on 16th September. Or listen to it online right here the next working day.
Joe, Arizona
computer
LG,sheffield
depends on what kind of satisfactions.generally speaking, computer/internet provides quick satisfactions (for example, you don't have to wait until the bookshop open--if you can find teh same materials online)but, generally the quality of the materials from books are much better than those from web. so, books win the quality satisfaction
jason,london
great point, i have always thought that technology may be changing society by changing people
Rosalind Maskell
Reading a book
Richard Woodall, Sherborne, Dorset.
The value of experiencing information from any source - computers, books, television, conversation, music, natural sights and events - depends on how much we exercise our brains actively in response. Not everyone will equate this value with satisfaction, but lack of intellectual exercise is just as debilitating as lack of physical exercise. The principle that the more you put in the more you get out needs some vigorous promotion if we want a more healthy society. What does it take to make role models of our intellectuals instead of our footballers (or their wives)?
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