The Disruptors
Jamie Bartlett uncovers the reality behind Silicon Valley's glittering promise to build a better world.
Jamie Bartlett uncovers the reality behind Silicon Valley's glittering promise to build a better world. The tech gods believe progress is powered by technology tearing up the world as it is - a process they call disruption. He visits Uber's lavish offices in San Francisco and hears how the company believes it is improving our cities. But in Hyderabad in India, Jamie sees for himself the human consequences of Uber's utopian vision - drivers driven to suicide over falling earnings. Riding shotgun in a truck as it drives itself for more than a hundred miles on a highway, Jamie asks what the next wave of Silicon Valley's global disruption - the automation of millions of jobs - will mean for all of us. In search of answers, he gets a warning from an artificial intelligence pioneer who is replacing doctors with software - an economic shock is coming, faster than any of us have realised. Jamie's journey ends in the remote island hideout of a former Facebook executive who has armed himself with a gun because he fears this new industrial revolution could lead to social breakdown and the collapse of capitalism.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Jamie Bartlett |
Executive Producer | Mike Radford |
Series Producer | Tristan Quinn |
Broadcasts
- Sun 6 Aug 2017 20:00
- Wed 9 Aug 2017 23:15
- Tue 29 Aug 2017 02:45
- Sun 22 Jul 2018 17:30
- Tue 19 Mar 2019 22:25
- Thu 16 Apr 2020 22:00
- Tue 24 Sep 2024 23:00
- Wed 25 Sep 2024 03:00
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