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Last broadcast on Mon, 27 Jul 2009, 01:32 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
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THE FORUM, the ideas programme with BRIDGET KENDALL, recorded this week at Keble College, Oxford, UK in front of a live audience as part of a conference organised by the international ideas organization, TED.
American astronomer ANDREA GHEZ on super massive black holes.
African economist IAN GOLDIN on safe-guarding earth’s future.
Cyberspace authority EVGENY MOROZOV on the internet’s darker side.
AT THE RECORDING
From left to right: Bridget Kendall, Evgeny Morozov, Andrea Ghez and Ian Goldin
RECORDING THIS WEEK'S FORUM
MEET THE GUESTS
American astronomer ANDREA GHEZ explains how seeing through the blur of earth’s atmosphere enabled her to discover evidence for a gigantic, or super massive, black hole right at the centre of our galaxy. She suggests there are super massive black holes at the centre of all galaxies, and that they came into being at the same time as the galaxies themselves.
South African economist IAN GOLDIN is now a futurologist tasked with foreseeing and averting the dangers we face here on earth. He believes we need new research and new ways of thinking because while the future is always difficult to imagine, levels of uncertainty have never been higher.
International cyberspace expert from Belorussia, EVGENY MOROZOV, warns that it is naïve to assume that the internet will export free speech and spread democratic values around the world. He says that the global diffusion of the internet has presented authoritarianism with opportunity as well as challenge.
THIS WEEK'S ILLUSTRATION
Marching off a cliff from democracy into the future of a black hole of authoritarianism via the internet. By Emily Kasriel
IN NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAMME
Nobel prize winning economist and philosopher AMARTYA SEN on the injustices of society.
Swedish novelist and crime writer HENNING MANKELL on imagination as an instrument of survival.
Iranian born psychotherapist CAMILA BATMANGHELIDJ on how to create a personal soothing repertoire.
Broadcasts
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Sun 26 Jul 200909:32
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Sun 26 Jul 200920:32
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Mon 27 Jul 200901:32
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