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How tech is transforming the way the world works, learns and plays

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world.

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world. We meet the people with bright ideas for rethinking the way we work, learn and play, and get hands-on with the products they dream up. We hold tech giants to account for their huge power to affect our lives, and ask who wins, and who loses, in the technology transformation. Tech Life is your guide to a future being made, and remade, at lightning speed in front of our eyes.

Tech Life: Healthy Business

01/08/2014

Healthy Business

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Healthy Business

Rory Cellan-Jones on the latest stories in the tech world

Rory Cellan-Jones looks at the very healthy business of gadgets that log our daily activity, big data analysis in medicine, and digitally-assisted meditation.

How the biggest players in tech are getting interested in our health. From gadgets that log our daily activity, and the use of big data analysis in medicine to digitally-assisted meditation, we look at what's becoming very healthy business.

Professor Amy Abernethy of Duke University, North Carolina, tells us about the potential usefulness to doctors and their patients of data logged by fitness bands and other wearable sensors. Nancy McKinstry, CEO of the Dutch medical publisher Wolters Kluwer talks to us about how data will be the driving force behind many new medical discoveries. And Los Angeles based buddhist monk turned startup co-founder Andy Puddicombe of Headspace.com talks about using tech to combat digital overload.

Plus. the week's main tech stories including news from Moscow of a clampdown on popular Russian bloggers, and security worries over the Tor anonymous internet browsing platform. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with special guest Dr Hilary Thomas, chief medical adviser to the consultancy firm KPMG. Also featuring Joe Miller and Mark Ward from the BBC Online technology desk.

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