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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent

Science Weekly podcast: the future of the net

Net users go online in China. Photograph: Greg Baker/AP

I don't trail the Guardian's science and technology podcast Science Weekly on here often - perhaps I should - but here's one you might be interested in.

With hundreds of researchers around the world trying to find out how to take the internet to the next level, we wondered what the future was for it - and what the network might look like in a decade or so. So, we invited Jon Crowcroft - the Marconi professor of communication systems at Cambridge University and one of the net's leading engineers - into the pod to tell us what he thinks.

(He also demonstrates to producer Ben that not every item we do can or indeed should have a musical introduction.)

Elsewhere, we wonder whether robots should be given similar rights to humans, and find out about the effect of TV shows like CSI on juries listening to forensic science evidence. And if you're into academic spats, we also analyse the latest row between Richard Dawkins and Robert Winston.

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