Improving or Ruining the Future? Kevin Rudd. Finland 100.
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith share visions of the future with Rana Mitter. Plus former Australian PM Kevin Rudd on power and what images does Finland conjure 100 years after independence? We hear from Pauliina Stahlberg, Director of the Finnish Institute and Anne Robbins, curator of Lake Keitele: A Vision of Finland which runs at the National Gallery in London until 4 February 2018.
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith is out now. You can find a collection of Free Thinking the Future conversations on the programme website.
Kevin Rudd's Memoir is called Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007
Producer: Debbie Kilbride
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| 0:37.9 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:43.2 | Hello, we need to talk about Kevin. |
| 0:46.4 | Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd talks to me about politics, principles, |
| 0:50.5 | and the benefits of learning Swedish. |
| 0:52.6 | Which reminds me, we need to talk about Finland. |
| 0:55.0 | A hundred years after the Nordic nation gained independence, |
| 0:58.0 | we'll find out how history, art and design reflect Finland's idea of itself to the world. |
| 1:03.0 | And we definitely need to talk about how in the future our brains will all be linked together. |
| 1:08.0 | I think the technology that could most dramatically change humanity is probably brain |
| 1:13.2 | computer interfaces. |
| 1:14.5 | We talk about the fact that if you have these devices that are sort of hooked into your |
| 1:18.5 | brain, figuring out what you want, and then doing something with that information, one |
| 1:22.7 | potential use of that is to connect all of our brains so that all of our thoughts are being |
| 1:26.4 | shared together. |
| 1:27.7 | And I think at that point, we're just something totally different than what humanity has ever |
| 1:31.9 | been in the past. |
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