John Phipps

Boldly going where hundreds have gone before: Brave New Planet podcast reviewed

Plus: a Radio 3 doc about skating, and design, and the inch-specific love with which the best design is done

The world-famous skate park in Livingston, Scotland, designed by Iain and Dee Urquhart. Image: Wig Worland / Alamy Stock Photo 
issue 14 November 2020
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  • Brave New Planet

    Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other platforms

  • Sunday Feature: Curves and Concrete

    BBC Radio 3

Since technology is developing at such light-speed pace, why does it feel so strangely slow? There is a sense that driverless cars, green energy and of course certain vaccines are, for all their breakneck pace, still taking for ever to arrive. Watching the future emerge is like watching slow-motion footage of a high-speed train.

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