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A new age of discovery, cardboard gliders and the Living Transport Lab

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A new age of discovery, cardboard gliders and the Living Transport Lab

In this program…

Richard Conniff details his recent trip to the jungles of Suriname. Despite worrying rates of species extinction, he says we are currently living in a new age of discovery.

Technology developer, Mikell Taylor, explains how aid delivery could be transformed with the help of small disposable cardboard gliders.

And Professor Majid Sarvi from Melbourne University’s Living Transport Lab talks connectivity, traffic flow and laying the foundations for autonomous networks.

The Friday repeat of this Future Tense program (as broadcast on RN) includes an edited version of the program CrowdScience from the BBC World Service.

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