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There is very strong language throughout this programme.

The internal combustion engine, certainly.

Latterly, the internet. And perhaps looking forward to the potential positives and pitfalls of artificial intelligence.

But surely, for me, it's the atomic bomb that has, since its invention...

Yeah, for me, it's the dishwasher, I think.

Sorry?

The best invention. The dishwasher.

There's a cupboard in my house that you can stuff full of all

the dirty plates and saucepents and forks and the cat litter tray sometimes and you come back

an hour later, it's all clean. I'm talking more anthropologically. It's progress, isn't it? You know,

when I was a kid, we hired our television from radio rentals. Yes, kids, you rented your telly and your washing machine and your fridge sometimes,

because, you know, to own them, it was so expensive.

But now these appliances are, you know, they're affordable.

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