Free Thinking Festival - Free Information
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2014
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The Cost of Free Information. Against a backdrop of perceived excess of intellectual property, and problems that require solving with a matter of urgency, Rana Mitter and Jodie Ginsburg, Dr. Rufus Pollock and Kenneth Cukier test the promises of the internet to spread ideas quickly and democratically. This event was recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage, Gateshead on 02.11.14.
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| 0:41.1 | Hello. Back in the 1980s, hippie ideologues Stuart Brand declared, |
| 0:46.8 | information wants to be free. That phrase has a new relevance today for everyone from |
| 0:51.5 | activists to governments who argue that the more information |
| 0:54.5 | we have in the public domain, the happier, healthier and more empowered we will all be. |
| 0:59.4 | We've entered the era of big data. Today we have more data available to us at the click |
| 1:04.8 | of a mouse than ever before in human history. There's enough information digitized to give each |
| 1:09.8 | person on earth 320 times the amount of |
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