Battle of Ideas 2014
Festival weekend: Technology & The City
Saturday 18 October: 10.00-11.30
Technological Innovation Frobisher Auditorium 2
The robots are coming: friends or foes?
Saturday 18 October: 12.00-13.00
Technological Innovation Frobisher Auditorium 2
Year of coding: programming kids for work?
Interrogating Megatrends Conservatory
Feeding the world: can we engineer away hunger?
Saturday 18 October: 14.00-15.30
Technological Innovation Frobisher Auditorium 2
Forever friends? Negotiating online relationships
Interrogating Megatrends Conservatory
Energy futures: how can we keep the lights on?
Interrogating Megatrends Cinema 2
Cities in the machine age: all systems, no soul?
Saturday 18 October: 16.00-17.15
Interrogating Megatrends Conservatory
From bullet trains to driverless cars: where is transport going?
Sunday 19 October: 16.00-17.15
Keynote Controversies Cinema 1
Big Data: big danger?

After Gaza: the return of anti-semitism?

"Although 'battle' suggests destruction, these were some of the most constructive debates I've taken part in. This was civilised conflict in the best sense of both words."
Julian Baggini, author, Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind, and The Ego Trick

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