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World Service,25 May 2012,18 mins

Business Daily: Technology and ethics

Business Daily

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Lesley Curwen meets innovators pushing the boundaries of technology and ethics at the Future In Review (FiRe) conference in California. Colin Angle from iRobot discusses the rights and wrongs of sending robots to war. The actress Julia Ormond, who is President of the Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking explains how mobile phones could help victims of human trafficking. Sheryl Connelly a futurologist at Ford tells us how they anticipate what cars the customers of 2030 will want to drive. And the wildlife photographer James Balog talks about capturing the affect of climate change on glaciers using time-lapse cameras.

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