Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps

that it's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream

van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC sounds.

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Hello, it's good to be with you, isn't it, sorry?

Indeed it is.

On a packed programme tonight, we're going to meet the Professor of Information Systems,

who says big computer projects are fated to collapse.

Not sure how I feel about that, really.

How do you feel about that, sorry?

I'm not really sure.

We'll also tackle the subject of big data,

from the present day back to the ancient city of Oxirincas,

where a huge collection of papyri were discovered in a pile of rubbish.

That's later in the programme.

What do you think of it so far?

I can't really answer that.

First, though, we're examining a stream of data from the pictures, aren't we sorry?

Indeed we are. The new film, Her.

Her? Yes, Her stars Wackham Phoenix as a man who falls in love with an operating system on his phone and computer.

He's just survived a difficult divorce.

And the attractive, sympathetic voice that wafts from his gadgets begins to sound terribly attractive to him.

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