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World Service,20 Aug 2010,28 mins

A glimpse of the future

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Mark Jacobson, professor of engineering at Stanford University, says renewable energy can power the world in 40 years time. But Nathan Lewis, professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, argues that more money should go in to nuclear power. A top Malaysian businessman calls for a business jihad. Muhammad Ali Hashim, the president and chief executive of the giant Johor Corporation, wants the Muslim world to embrace Western business values without losing its own religious ones. Plus televison analyst Anthony Rose on how we will be watching TV in the next decade. Is it going to be tailored to our individual needs and who is going to make money from this? And Lucy Kellaway from the Financial Times on insulting big companies and why it is so easy to hate BP.

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