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PassW0rd Video
The video version of the monthly radio documentary @PassW0rd_Radio that explores technology in society and is produced by Future Intelligence. PassW0rd has an audience of 750,000 and is broadcast on the second Wednesday of every month 17:00-18:00 GMT on Resonance FM, the alternative London radio station broadcasting on 104.4 FM in London. It is also broadcast on DAB in London, Brighton, Bristol and Cambridge and online via www.resonancefm.com - Resonance's website. In addition to the 750,000 listeners in the UK, the radio programme also has a big international on-demand audience from North and South American to Australia and pretty much the whole European continent.
Poles Apart
Regular topical discussion between our regular newscasters Bill Mew, Pete Warren and Dez Blanchfield.
California Time
Taking the temperature of Silicon Valley. TechTV’s news round up of the news stories and events that are exercising the digiterati that now live shoulder to shoulder with the film stars of tinsel town. Using interviews with some of the most connected people in the area we find out which companies are on the up and why. Who is currently strutting the floor in the court of the High Tech King and how the world’s current computing capital is dealing with political change in the time of President Trump. We ask whether Trump’s plans for US AI domination are going down well in the Sunshine State and about the ongoing quest for the next unicorn and the sentient computer.
Cyber Alert
TechTV’s programme on the most important technology of our age, the cyber security that guarantees our data and the critical role it now has in the intelligence age. Drawing on the expertise of Peter Warren, the journalist who wrote the first ever stories on cyber security in the UK and was second only to John now Professor Markoff globally, the celebrated privacy campaigner Bill Mew, and top white hat hacker Des Blanchfield, we look into the significance of cyber-crime. What it means to the technology world and the ramification of that on the world. We are now completely dependent on technology and due to that cyber-attacks have the capability to wreak undreamt of havoc on our lives. From cancelled holidays to supermarket deliveries grinding to a halt cyber-attacks are penetrating further and further into our lives. With the advent of sextortion, they are even reaching into our children’s bedrooms and forcing them to suicide. And cyber attacks are now routinely used in warfare to destabilise populations, attack infrastructure and sew disinformation and panic. Using interviews with leading voices in the intelligence agencies, industry and academia Cyber Alert will demonstrate why it is essential that our whole view of the importance of cyber must change. With our in-depth knowledge of the area and contacts books that embrace the industry around the world, Cyber Alert promises the most insightful and engaging view of the industry ever presented.
Exploit (the cybersecurity quiz)
So, you think you know your cyber? Our panel game to test the knowledge of the cyber cops, hackers and sleuths about the minutiae of the cyber world. Who was the first hacker? Which hacker was responsible for the book the Cuckoo’s Egg? Who was the head of the UK’s first cyber crime unit? Which UK police force took the lead on obscene computer pornography? Who was ‘Flyman’ and which Russian cyber crime gang did he control? This is more than Mastermind, we go into the detail and depth of the world’s most lucrative criminal enterprise ever, to find out what’s what in the murky world of the dark web and cut through the ‘EncroChat’ to find out who is behind this threat to our economies and our online world. And just so you know, the quiz master’s word is final, and there’s no arguing over the questions.
Future Now
The latest in technology developments and the world that those behind them are trying to usher in. TechTV reports not on Tomorrow’s World, but this evening’s world, because the pace of change is such, that AI is now allowing the development of technology so fast that it is threatening to put sci-fi writers out of work. In a programme, pre-occupied with how technology can solve issues like climate change, plastic pollution, the energy needs of our changing world we look for the technologies that will change our world and the way that we will work in the future. We look at transport, 3D virtualisation, the evolution of the digital twin, and the role of ongoing education in the world of the future. With programmes on gaming and robotics we look at how the world will change. Whether we will need robot taxis or podules, and whether air travel of the future will mean that nowhere in the world is further than two hours away. Future Now will examine the options that are available to us to change the world.
The Nerd Game (quiz)
It’s the tech quiz that takes us to mist of technological time. And remember that due to data and technology we can go virtually anywhere. From the Abacus to AI, Tech TV examines the minds of some of the planet’s finest to find out what they know about computing technology. Whether it be the Sumerian mathematics or Babbage’s Difference Engine we want to know what the storage mechanism was and where the data was housed. Who was behind the ‘bomba’ that were so essential to the breaking of the codes used by the Germans during the Second World War? What was the origin of the term computer bug? Did Alan Turing invent computing? What was Eratosthenes famous for and where did he work Which company’s products could you not be sacked for buying? Which computing giant imploded leaving staff having to work from hotel lobbies and restaurants because it could not afford premises and started the hot desking movement? For these and so much more, the quiz that will have you racking your brains for arcane tech data.
Hard Drive (The Warren Interview)
Hard Drive is TechTV’s uncompromising look at the biggest issues in technology. It looks at the things that the industry would rather you did not know about. Where your data goes. Who gets access to it. Why the AI industry has suddenly taken off. Why are there billions being poured into it. Why does AI have to destroy jobs. Does AI make economic sense. How the technology industry uses psychologists and what that means for you. What agreeing to the terms and conditions means and why the technology industry does it. With our team of top interviewers, we get under the tech industry’s skin and show you how it’s not only not working in your interests but that often can be abusing its position in our lives to make them worse. The Pete Warren interview part of the Hard Drive series talks to leading thinkers and experts in the technology industry in frank discussions about technology practices and what needs to be done.
Heads Up
TechTV’s weekly round-up of all the tech news that matters. In the studio hoary old technology correspondent and author Pete Warren, and the noted privacy campaigner Bill Mew talk about the technology trends of the week. In a robust discussion they dissect the news, what underlies it, and what is likely to happen next. Using occasional guests to talk about news stories, Bill and Pete, flesh out the impact of technology trends and why they matter. Using a mix of news clips, newspaper cuttings, and interviews, they put the events of the tech world into context in an engaging cut and thrust of news, comment and anecdote, from two of the most informed voices on the technology scene.
Investigative Reports
We don't provide information about our investigative reports in advance, but when they land, you'll know all about it. Our investigative reports are led by Peter Warren, an award-winning national investigative journalist and a specialist on cybersecurity, and the Editor of Future Intelligence and Chair of the Cyber Security Research Institute.
Is IT Legal?
Is IT Legal – TechTV’s essential viewing for all things to do with law and technology. In conversation with leading lawyers, and industry thinkers from the UK, Europe, and the US, we explore the legal issues that are going to be driving technology development in the 21st century. In answer to demands from both lawyers and those in the tech industry we explore the laws coming down the line to regulate technology, and data use and what is prompting them. Even more importantly we ask what technology practices are likely to be curbed by legislation in the future.
The Omniverse (Arts)
In a world first – TechTV explores the impact of technology on the arts and culture. From sci-fi films to computer games, and AI enabled statues, we look at how art and culture increasingly involves technology. Whether it be NFT art works, or dystopian film releases dealing with AI related issues, the dead web of defunct websites and data graveyards still in the internet, or the new worlds of data memorials and AI enabled memories, Omniverse will be talking about them with those who either make them, research them, weed them, or curate them. But we don’t just leave it there, Omniverse also examines the impact of technology on the arts themselves and whether AI tools are a force for good are bad? Whether AI is killing creativity and our brains or empowering us to reach new heights. And we look at what’s next. What new trends are coming. Why for example computer gaming is now morphing into education and pointing out that games have always been about future education. There’s a lot to digest in Omniverse.
Documentaries
We can be commissioned to create documentaries. Such documentaries are led by Peter Warren, an award-winning national investigative journalist and a specialist on cybersecurity, and the Editor of Future Intelligence and Chair of the Cyber Security Research Institute.
Red Tape (Regulating Tech)
Regulation is one of the thorniest issues for the massive technology companies that are now deciding our lives. Yet for a huge majority of those interviewed for TechTV, and its sister broadcasting operation PassW0rd, it is essential to ensure technology development is in the interests of global society. ‘Red Tape’, looks at regulation from both sides, the industries and the people. We talk to regulators about the problems they face regarding the incredible pace of change technology has. We also talk to the smaller companies that are now forced to comply with regulations in Europe, the UK, and the US. We also talk to the companies that are now emerging to try to solve the issue. The companies who offer to take the burden off your shoulders by staying abreast of the regulators and providing you with the technological solutions to keep working and stay legal. And the companies that are developing to ensure you have clean data feeds. Finally, we examine the areas that will face legislation in the future. Social media, sentient computing, fake news and images, data use, ethical computing, and transparency.
Soap Box (viewpoint)
Like letters to the editor, Soap Box provides a platform for vendors and others to express a view point of their own - unedited!
Thermometer (the price of the modern world)
In TechTV’s ‘Thermometer’ series, presenters from TechTV will look at the costs of technology, and the price it is making the planet pay. In a hard-hitting series of programmes, we interview those who are trying to change the way our technology impacts our climate and the ways that we can control that. Using studio guests and footage from academia and companies around the world, Thermometer, will illustrate the technology we can use to make the world fit for us and the creatures we share the globe with, and challenge whether the ideas will work. Can we bring sailing ships back to our seas and take lorries off the roads. Is the future building a new canal network in the UK, a country where the furthest place from the sea is 84 miles away in Leicestershire? What do we need to do to reduce our carbon footprint? Can you have solar panels on thatched cottages? In Thermometer we look at all of these things and more.
View From The Bridge (Book Review)
There are more books about technology and AI than you can shake a stick at and the only things that have read them all are large language models. Welcome to the library of tech. A pile of tomes that could fill the fabled Library of Alexandria and just keeps on growing. A pile of books TechTV’s expert critics will guide you through highlighting, the must read, missing out the really dead. Every month we will feature interviews with some of the tech industries leading lights telling us what motivated them to write the book we are talking about, what it means to them, and why you should put it on your shelf, or commit it to memory. From politicians, to lawyers, academic researchers, influential thinkers, and hopefully the occasional tech humourist. The View from the Bridge, our play on the central significance of the computer chip, will tackle everything from technology ethics, computer chip design, geo-politics, technology dependency, and the role of AI in education via the books our authors have written.
The Prompt (AI Today)
We had to have it, The Prompt’ the programme devoted to AI and data the two vowels that have driven al of the others to the back of the alphabet. The Prompt will examine every part of AI from the infrastructure to the latest advances. From the dilemmas caused by data to the hallucinations caused by hiccups in the programmes. Drawing on TechTV’s unrivalled access to some of the top voices in the AI field we look at the burning issues of that AI is throwing up from data sovereignty and the problems of auditing data to the fundamental issue worrying Big Tech, who owns data. With interviews from the world’s leading experts we talk about all things AI and even whether it’s actually intelligent.
