Tech to watch in 2020
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Rory Cellan-Jones and special guests look ahead to the technology trends they expect to see in 2020 and discuss ideas for a better internet in the coming year. Plus they’ll preview the gigantic annual CES tech event in Las Vegas. With BBC Online tech editor Leo Kelion, and guests Catherine Miller from Doteveryone and Tom Standage from The Economist. Produced by Jat Gill.
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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 at BBCworldservice.com slash TechTent. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly update on all the hottest news and trends in |
| 0:42.7 | the technology business. I'm Rory Katham-Katham Jones. In our first edition of 2020, we ask some |
| 0:48.7 | big questions, such as who is leading in the race to build artificial intelligence. |
| 0:56.6 | How are we going to build a better web? |
| 1:02.2 | And best of all, what are the hot new gadgets which will be unveiled in Las Vegas next week? |
| 1:05.8 | Joining me this week is BBC Technology Desk Editor Leo Kellyan, |
| 1:10.3 | who has been immersing himself in what next week's CES show will offer. |
| 1:10.8 | Excited, Leo? |
| 1:12.0 | Hugely, Roy. So much to see. |
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