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Start the Week: Eric Schmidt on the New Digital Age

Eric Schmidt on the New Digital Age

27/05/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Eric Schmidt on the New Digital Age

Emily Maitlis speaks to Eric Schmidt, Honor Harger, David Spiegelhalter and James Ball.

Emily Maitlis discusses the digital future with Google head Eric Schmidt, data journalist James Ball, curator Honor Harger and risk expert David Spiegelhalter.

On Start the Week Emily Maitlis talks to the Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt about the digital future. A future where everyone is connected, but ideas of privacy, security and community are transformed. Former Wikileaks employee James Ball asks how free we are online. The curator Honor Harger looks to art to understand this new world of technology. And worried about this brave new world? David Spiegelhalter, offers a guide to personal risk and the numbers behind it.

Producer: Katy Hickman.

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