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Business Daily: Technology Hubs: Power and Pain

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Tech hubs: power and pain

17/11/2015 GMT

Technology Hubs: Power and Pain

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Technology Hubs: Power and Pain

Technology hubs bring investment and kudos but what happens to the towns they take over?

Zoe Kleinman visits the world's first technology hub and the British Silicon city where technology and biotechnology are pushing property prices through the roof.

Join Zoe Kleinman on a journey back in time to the world's first technology hub. Bletchley Park was home to 10,000 code breakers during World War Two - 7,000 of whom were women. What lessons can today's Silicon cities learn from the past?

She also meets the women of 21st Century Silicon Valley who are determined to make their mark without falling into the traps of stereotypes. And, she heads to Cambridge in the east of England, where the ivory towers of the ancient university are dwarfed by the exponential growth of billion dollar technology and biotechnology businesses. Great news for investors but soaring property prices are beginning to bite for the locals who live and work outside of the technology sphere.

(Photo: Bletchley Park coding cogs used on the Bombe machine developed by Alan Turing)

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