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World Service,11 May 2018,23 mins

Designing The Future

Tech Life

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Google reveals it's working on a convincingly human-sounding assistant that can perform phone tasks for you, for example booking a restaurant table or hair appointment. We broadcast live from London's V&A Museum for the opening of a new exhibition "The Future Starts Here" on how intelligent tech is being designed into the world around us. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with Chris Foxx, BBC Online tech reporter, and Rory Hyde, co-curator at the V&A. (Image: A gallery assistant sits in the VW Sedric driverless concept car on display at the V&A, Credit: Leon Neal/ Getty Images).

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