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Tech Life

Tech and working life

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, Technology, News

4.3227 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Rory Cellan-Jones explores how tech firms are influencing the way people work and what changes might lie ahead in the months and years to come. Plus, why has the internet evolved as it has and is it too late to reclaim it from big tech firms for the common good? And, has the Covid-19 pandemic boosted the gig-economy? With BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.

(Image: An employee working at an Amazon fulfilment centre in India, Credit: REUTERS/ Abhishek N. Chinnappa/ File Photo).

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0:00.0

On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see.

0:04.7

Hello, I'm Brian Cox.

0:05.6

And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:08.3

In this series, we're going to have a planet off.

0:10.8

I feel like Jupiter wins.

0:12.8

And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit.

0:15.9

We're talking about your bog standard.

0:17.8

Ice, not the fancy one.

0:20.1

Science with funny bits.

0:21.9

The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:24.1

Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

0:28.1

Thanks for downloading TechTent from the BBC World Service.

0:31.3

Find out more about us at BBCworldservice.com slash TechTent.

0:39.4

Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly essential guide to all the hottest news and

0:44.0

trends from the technology world. I'm Rory Kathleen Jones, and this week our stories have a common

0:49.5

theme, the power of the tech giants over the world of work, and more broadly over how the internet works.

0:56.8

Amazon posted and then withdrew adverts for two security analysts to monitor threats, including union activity.

1:04.4

But it's also creating tens of thousands of jobs, so should there be concerned for workers' rights?

1:10.7

The gig economy has also created thousands of jobs, So should there be concerned for workers' rights? The gig economy has also created

1:12.6

thousands of jobs, albeit insecure ones. An expert tells us why it might grow to encompass white

1:18.9

collar workers after the pandemic. And the internet was supposed to be for everybody, but the

1:24.8

author of a provocative new book tells us it's been conquered by just a few

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