Web creator to sell source code as an NFT
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Sir Tim Berners-Lee surprises observers by using the latest tech craze to raise funds for charity. Plus, we visit the Founders Forum ClimateTech Summit to hear entrepreneurs’ ideas for tackling the environmental emergency. And will wearable health devices one day be replaced by implanted sensors? Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with senior BBC tech reporter Zoe Kleinman. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Sir Tim Berners-Lee with NFT graphics, Credit: Getty Images).
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| 0:56.1 | I'm Rory Kathleen Jones and this week I'm out of my attic at a gathering of tech entrepreneurs and investors called Founders Forum, deep in the English countryside. |
| 1:05.8 | We'll have a report about how their two-day meetings started in London with discussions about what tech can do in the battle against climate change. |
| 1:13.6 | Also in the programme, a new boost for the investment craze in non-fundable tokens, as the creator of the World Wide Web auctions its original source code as an NFT. |
| 1:26.1 | We hear two opposing views on whether that's a good idea. And would you want |
| 1:31.3 | a chip implanted in you if it could act as a permanent temperature sensor? We'll discuss that too. |
| 1:38.4 | Joining me this week is BBC's senior tech reporter Zoe Clyman. Hi Zoe. How should week be? |
| 1:43.8 | Well, I'll give you an idea of my week. |
| 1:45.7 | My current office is my seven-year-old son's bedroom because it's the only escape from the world and his wife doing building work outside my house. |
| 1:53.2 | It's quite noisy here. I've just heard a helicopter take off, but otherwise things are perfectly calm. |
| 1:59.8 | Here's a flavour of what's coming up. |
| 2:01.3 | I think it's about re-educating people on humanity |
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