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Following up on our chat with Andrew Kuper about micro-insurance and ‘profit with purpose’ business, here’s a terrific program from the BBC’s Global Business unit about ‘washing your hands with soap’.
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Charles Emmerson is the author of a new book called ‘The Future History of the Arctic’. He joins us as a guest on Future Tense to speak about the new geopolitical interest in a region which many think of as a barren wasteland.
AUDIO PREVIEW – Charles Emmerson
NOTE: full audio now available here.
Author: RNFutureTense
Antony here… I gave a lecture to students at La Trobe this week re our Generation F project. Hard to judge these things, but the fact that no one yawned has to be good.
Lawrie Zion (ex JJJ and The Australian) is my co-conspirator. He’s in charge of the journalism programme at La Trobe.
Will give more details on Generation F when things move along a bit.
If you want to listen to the audio of my presentation it’s here.
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A follow-up to the story we brought you last year about ICANN’s decision to allow web addresses in non-latin based script. Here’s the original story.
NOTE: ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
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We’re launching a new initiative with La Trobe University.
We’re calling it Generation F (Future).
It’s about getting the future visions of young people to air. It’s also about audience participation.
Here’s a flyer from La Trobe’s online magazine called ’Upstart’.
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Here’s our new tag line…
‘Future Tense – new ideas, new approaches, new technologies’
The idea is to better define the program – as much for those within ABC Radio National still adjusting to the demise of the Media Report, as for the wider audience.
Let us know what you think?
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A few weeks back Errol Simper in The Australian wrote a piece which followed on from our interview with Douglas Rushkoff about the dangers of becoming a slave to media technology.
The article contained both a bouquet and a brickbat. You can read it here.
No problems from our end about what he wrote. However it did occur to me that perhaps there was still confusion in some minds about the focus of the program.
So, let me be brief - here is our brief. Our program brief that is. Thought it a good idea to let people know exactly what our mission is as determined by the powers that be here at ABC Radio National….
DESCRIPTION
Charting changes and probing predictions in a rapidly advancing technological culture. Presented by Antony Funnell
PROGRAM MISSION
TARGET AUDIENCE
EDITORIAL CONTENT
STYLE AND SOUND
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Is geoengineering a ‘necessary evil’ in the fight against climate change?
Note: the full program on geoengineering is now available from the Future Tense website .
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Associate Professor Melanie Oppenheimer and Professor David Lowe speak about the launch of the new Australian Policy and History Network – an online website that helps link the past with the future.
NOTE: The full audio of this edition of Future Tense is available online or for podcast from abc.net.au/rn/futuretense
Author: RNFutureTense
It’s been more than a year now since we launched and I think it timely to remind you (and ourselves) of our mission. Here’s what I said in the first program back in late January 2009…
‘Our brief is to look at new developments and trends across a broad range of topic areas, and to introduce you to creative thinkers, cutting edge technologies and new approaches.
‘In coming weeks we’ll explore the concept of online bereavement; we’ll take you 60 metres below one of Australia’s major cities for a look at some state-of-the-art tunnelling equipment; and we’ll find out about an agricultural concept called ‘vertical farming’. They’re just a few of the things we’ve got planned.
‘Now, there are far too many people out there involved in promotion and spin, so we’ll endeavour, always, to maintain a critical eye.’
Are we walking the talk, as the Americans say? Let us know…
