Babbage: Up in smoke

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🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Are e-cigarettes the answer to giving up tobacco smoking? And SpaceX revives its plans to send tourists around the moon. Also, we speak to Zia Chishti of Afiniti about the role of artificial intelligence in business. Kenneth Cukier hosts

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0:38.2	Hello and welcome to Babbage on Economist Radio.
0:40.8	I'm Kenneth Cookeye,
0:42.0	a senior editor at the Economist
0:44.0	and coming up on today's show.
0:46.2	The SpaceX's announcement this week
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