Are the big US media platforms swallowing our culture?
Global media players now dominate the entertainment business and hold the whip-hand when it comes to accessing local news content.
Published: with Antony Funnell
Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds
A critical look at our shape-shifting world and how we're learning to adapt: the new technologies, new approaches and new responses arising from rapid change.
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A new push in the search for alien life
NASA's new telescope will revolutionise the search for non-Earth based life. It's to be called the Habitable Worlds Observatory and will be powerful enough to peer into the atmosphere of planets outside of our solar system.
Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds
Published: with Antony Funnell
Technology and language — a dynamic relationship
While technology platforms increasingly dictate the way we write and converse, language is being modified to fight back, to subvert the platforms. In this show we examine the growth of "algospeak".
Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds
Published: with Antony Funnell
As everyday people struggle with the cost of living, this group of millionaires is begging to pay more tax
As some company CEOs are receiving a salary more than 50 times higher than the average employee's, even the rich are starting to say it's time to rein in their wealth.
Published: by Fiona Pepper and Antony Funnell
The insidious nature of algorithmic feeds and how they're flattening our culture
Algorithmic feeds should personalise our online experiences, but instead they are "deadening our tastes" and fostering a dull conformity.
Published: by Fiona Pepper
Why are we all so angry right now? Many experts say we're being manipulated for profits
Anger and fear dominate our world right now, but experts say those who are engineering these emotions are often doing so for the money.
Published: by Antony Funnell
Meet the team preparing for the possibility that intelligent life exists beyond our galaxy
Humans have long been fascinated by how aliens could communicate — it's the plot of countless blockbuster science fiction films. Yet there's also a team of experts who are investigating this idea.
Published: by Fiona Pepper
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