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Last broadcast on Sun, 14 Mar 2010, 09:05 on BBC World Service.
Synopsis
THE FORUM - A World Of Ideas - an edition which joins in the BBC’s SuperPower internet season, presented by Bridget Kendall
Illustration opposite: The internet creates shared meaning and a primordial soup of our origins but we must protect it and ensure our privacy. By Emily Kasriel
WENDY HALL
Leading British computer scientist, Dame Wendy Hall, believes that the net is ready for a substantial upgrade. At the cutting edge of internet discovery from the start, she’s now working alongside its founder Tim Berners-Lee to create a Semantic Web in which all data is linked and tagged to make it significantly more intelligent and searchable. But she also cautions us not to take the internet for granted and to look after it well.
BRUCE DAMER
Californian pioneer of virtual worlds and avatars, Bruce Damer, is on the point of harnessing the power of distributed computing to simulate the chemical origins of life on earth in his Evogrid. Yet he’s also following Wendy’s advice by running a museum for vintage computers and the early predecessors of the internet, helping to conserve at least one part of our internet history.
EVGENY MOROZOV
And can we be sure the World Wide Web - and data in cyberspace generally - will last? Will we need to create a digital will for our digital assets? Belarus-born blogger Evgeny Morozov says that digital decay is inevitable and nothing lasts for ever, even as 0s and 1s. Photos, documents and hyperlinks we used to be able to access are very often lost, inaccessible or disintegrating. So how will we protect our digital world?
60 SECOND IDEA TO CHANGE THE WORLD
In our 60 Second Idea to Change the World, Bruce Damer wants to create a 'Planetary Mood Ring': a central place on the internet for every human to text, tweet, email, blog and click in the essence of their mood in any moment. These "moodies" will provide us with an instant emotional pulse check on our planet.
IN NEXT WEEK’S PROGRAMME
Why some alien plants might not be that bad for our woods and meadows...and why depressive penguins make such good characters in East European novels!
Planetary Mood Ring
Chapters
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Chapter 1
Why a Semantic Web will be much more intelligent and searchable
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Chapter 2
How distributed computing can simulate the chemical origins of life on earth in an Evogrid
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Chapter 3
Why so much of the information on the net lacks context
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Chapter 4
Can we be sure data in cyberspace will last or is digital decay inevitable?
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Chapter 5
Why is it worth preserving computers of the past?
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Chapter 6
How Web Science can help us influence the future of the internet.
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Chapter 7
Bruce Damer wants to create the first Planetary Mood Ring
Broadcast
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Sun 14 Mar 201009:05
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