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FT Tech Tonic episodes

February 28, 2018 Is there anyone out there?
Clive Cookson, FT science editor, discusses the possibility of alien life and whether we would recognise it if we encountered it with British astrophysicist Paul Davies.
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22 min
February 21, 2018 ENCORE: When data rules the world
In this encore episode, John Thornhill talks to author and historian Yuval Noah Harari about his vision of a future when humans are no longer the smartest algorithm on the planet.
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27 min
February 14, 2018 Road testing self-drive cars
John Thornhill talks to nuTonomy's Gretchen Effgen about why the company chose Singapore as well as Boston to test its self-drive cars and why it uses a formal methods approach to developing its software.
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24 min
February 07, 2018 Jacqueline Poh on digital government
John Thornhill talks to the head of Singapore's GovTech about her work in advancing the country's Smart Nation ambitions
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24 min
January 31, 2018 Martin Rees on saving the planet
John Thornhill talks to leading astrophysicist Martin Rees about why he thinks we need to pay greater attention to the risks posed by environmental damage and the rapid adoption of new technologies.
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28 min
January 24, 2018 Silicon Valley's coming of age
Historian Leslie Berlin talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about the generation of entrepreneurs and investors, from Mike Markkula to Sandra Kurtzig, who transformed the tech hub in the 1970s and 1980s. It's the subject of her latest book "Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age".
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29 min
December 27, 2017 Calum Chace on a world without work
Business and science fiction writer Calum Chace talks to John Thornhill about the exponential growth of AI and why we need to start planning now for a world without work.

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25 min
December 20, 2017 Social media in the classroom
How is the use of mobile technology and social media affecting the lives of children and adolescents? Sonia Livingstone, professor of psychology at the LSE in London, examined the issue in her book: The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age. She talks to Madhumita Murgia about her findings.
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30 min
December 13, 2017 Garry Kasparov on the risks and rewards of AI
Artificial intelligence is an important tool, but human beings have to be creative to understand how best to make use of it, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov tells John Thornhill
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25 min
December 06, 2017 Guarding against the next cyber attack
Army veteran and cyber security expert Rick Howard talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about the current state of cyber security, what we have learned from recent large-scale attacks known as WannaCry and NotPetya and what companies can do to try to guard against the next attack.
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27 min

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We are in the midst of a digital revolution, where the line between our physical world and cyberspace is blurring. Tech Tonic is the show that investigates the promises and perils of this new…