Connecting people
Tech Life
BBC
4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Tech Life looks at ways to connect people. We examine the mobile phone usage gap. What is it and can it be narrowed ? And how do you shop online if you have no official address? Our reporter in Brazil finds out.
Also, we look at the company saving billions of litres of drinking water around the world by detecting leaky pipes using clever tech. And we find out about the latest fast-paced video gaming technology for people who are blind or partially-sighted.
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| 0:57.0 | Hello and welcome to TechLife on the BBC World Service, the programme where we explore |
| 1:02.0 | how technology is impacting your life. I'm Zoe Kleinman, and this week we're looking at |
| 1:06.9 | connecting people. Mobile phone networks are reaching more people around the world than ever |
| 1:11.7 | before, but still billions of people are offline, not receiving public services that are |
| 1:17.3 | increasingly provided via a smartphone. Can anything be done about that? We're off to Brazil where |
| 1:23.4 | millions of people don't have an official address and live in places where ordinary online shopping just isn't possible. |
| 1:30.1 | Until now. |
| 1:31.3 | And we'll hear about new video game technology |
| 1:33.9 | helping blind and visually impaired people play super fast racing games. |
| 1:38.3 | As ever, we want to hear from you too. |
| 1:40.4 | Our email is TechLife at BBC.co.uk. |
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