Names Not Numbers
Names Not Numbers
Names Not Numbers
CULTURE IN HISTORY – CAN THE PAST PREDICT THE FUTURE?
1 hour 7 minutes Posted May 7, 2014 at 2:20 pm.
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You could be forgiven for thinking that culture only looks forward not back - certainly pop culture and fashion are all reaching far ahead into the 21st century in terms of pushing boundaries and using new techniques and technologies. But what does history tell us about today's culture - and indeed tomorrow's?  Recorded live at editorial intelligence’s annual ideas festival Names Not Numbers.

Chair: Kirsty Lang, Presenter Front Row Radio 4, BBC
Panel: Stephen Barber, Group Managing Director and Group Head of Communications, Pictet Group
Orlando Figes, Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London
Kate Maltby, Writer and Academic; Head of Publications, Bright Blue