Diseases in Dialogue: A Networked Age
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In this episode, Dr Grant Blank and Dr Jean-Michel Johnston explore what it means to live in a networked age, an age that began with the emergence of the electric telegraph during the nineteenth century, and which has entered a new phase since the advent of the internet. Have the benefits of new means of communication been universal? To what extent is the internet built on the foundations of older technologies? Is the long-awaited ‘global village’ still on the horizon?
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