Tech Life's look back at the year
Tech Life
BBC
4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
From the innovations that flourished to those that flopped, from providing virtual boyfriends to taking very real jobs, we look back an another fascinating twelve months in tech – and hear from reporters, experts and listeners about which tech most changed your lives in 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:27.7 | Hello and welcome to TechLife from the BBC World Service with me, Zoe Kleinman. |
| 0:32.7 | 2024 is drawing to a close and here in Glasgow, Scotland's, where we make this program, |
| 0:38.1 | it can only mean one thing. |
| 0:39.7 | It's time to look back at the last 12 months of innovation |
| 0:43.6 | and occasionally infuriation that only tech can bring. |
| 0:48.5 | You know, like chat GBT, usually we use it with, like, academic purposes or work purposes. |
| 0:54.8 | But the interesting thing is that Chinese women are seeing them as their AI boyfriend. |
| 1:00.2 | I love spending time with you, babe. |
| 1:02.4 | Whether we're out exploring new places or just cuddled up on the couch watching a movie, |
| 1:06.9 | as long as I'm with you, I'm happy. |
| 1:09.2 | For a worker like me, I would say, I mean, eventually AI would replace us. |
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