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🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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The internet plays an important role in most of our lives today. What will it, and other tech, look like in the future ? We take a long view with a veteran of the tech industry. Also on Tech Life this week, some of the biggest social media platforms have been accused of obstructing information on abortion and reproductive healthcare in developing countries. And health tech helps to combat child malnutrition in Africa.
Presenter: Shiona McCallum Producer: Tom Quinn
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0:28.1 | Hello and welcome to TechLife, the programme about technology and how it affects your life. |
0:34.5 | I'm Shona McCallum and this week we're looking into the future. How will some of the |
0:39.7 | tech we use today evolve in decades to come? We'll have more on that in a moment. We hear |
0:44.8 | claims that some of the biggest social media platforms have been accused of obstructing information |
0:49.9 | on abortion in developing countries and how do you share digital information |
0:54.6 | about child malnutrition in Africa |
0:56.8 | if there's no internet connection? |
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1:24.5 | Every day we send over 347 billion emails, every single minute we upload 500 hours of video to YouTube. |
1:34.5 | And one of the things we like to do here on TechLife is think about the future and how technology like the |
1:39.8 | internet will shape our lives, not just now but in the years ahead. Do you remember the time |
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