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Amateurs have a proud history of contributing to the sum of human knowledge. The Victorians did it to a T. As long as you were wealthy, you could be anyone, do anything you wanted. You might, thanks to an inheritance be a country landowner, but you could also be a botanist, an inventor, an artist, an explorer.
However, some time after the second world war, science, especially, became far more complicated and expensive and the belief took hold that a certificate was required before an amateur was able to embark on clever things.
But now, at the start of the 21st century, there's a sense that the pendulum is swinging back again. According to the think tank Demos, we're seeing a re-emergence of the Pro-Am i.e. amateurs, often without qualifications, working to professional standards.
So are we going to see a permanent blurring of the boundary between amateur and professional?
Guests:
Charles Leadbeater
Demos
Dr Johannes Vogel
Natural History Museum
John Dobson
Dobsonian Telescope
Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia
Phil Smith
Ubisoft Entertainment
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