BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it.

But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go?

I remember having this very sharp thought that what you do right now, this is it.

This defines your life.

I'm ready to talk and ready to listen.

I'm insulted by how little the medical community is ever bothered with this.

Ready to talk with me, Emma Barnard, is my new podcast.

Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to Tech Life on the BBC World Service, the programme about technology and how it affects the world all around us. I'm Shona McCallum. This week, we're looking at how tech and visas have freed some workers from their desktops and allowed them to continue

their work from other sometimes more glamorous parts of the world. They're called digital

nomads. You can hear more about that in a moment. Also today, I speak to a victim of online bullying

in Kenya and find out about a charity trying to help.

And the tech event in Finland with icy origins.

Slush is the worst form of a snow.

So that's likely something that you're going to face once you me to the beach.

I'm sure I've told you before this is one of my favourite sounds,

the waves crashing and the birds tweeting in the background.

Perhaps it also appeals to you.

Have you ever thought about swapping your office for a location like this? Well,

if so, perhaps you're already what is known as a digital nomad. The term was popularised in a book

of the same name in 1997, predicting a future workforce of globe-trotting travellers logging in

from abroad. Since then, technology has advanced enough that we can now grab a laptop, a rucksack and a passport

...