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Bubbles. Living in them. Working in them. Socialising in them. Travelling in them. Is our future one of hermetically sealed environments? One where the needs of the lucky few are met by an on-demand workforce that never goes home? Hosts: Matt Armitage & Jeff Sandhu Produced: Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9 EPISODE EXCERPT Usually, when we talk about Bubbles in a business or economic context, there’s usually a negative association. But more recently - from tourism, to sporting events to business - bubbles have taken on a more positive meaning. Here to explain is someone who’s spent most of his life in a bubble, MSP’s Matt Armitage.  Won’t be the first time you’ve been blowing bubbles on this show… I’ll take that to mean you think I’m blowing little bubbles of insight and ingenuity.  Sure. If that’s what your bubble tells you I mean… Hmm. I’m inoculated from negativity today.  Your thoughts are but unformed soap suds. And simply slide over me. But yes, you’re right. When we talk about bubbles it’s often in a

It may be emotionally draining, technically challenging and socially isolating, but working from home could turn out to be a secret superpower. One that lowers business costs, boosts productivity and profits and gives employees more freedom, independence and flexibility. Presented by: Matt Armitage & Jeff Sandhu Produced by: Jeff Sandhu

With protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reverberating across the world, MSP takes a look at how machines and technology learn to discriminate.

As SpaceX becomes the first private company to launch astronauts into space, MSP wonders whether the universe is conscious and whether it’s better to fall into a big or a small black hole. Oh yeah, and zombie fires are burning under the Arctic.

Burger-flipping machines, finger-flipping robots and radiation emitting cleaners. It’s the new normal in the automation nation.

Tune in, turn on, drop out. That was the mantra of the 1960s. Today we’ve all been forced to drop out and reinvent ourselves. But what kind of world will we find on the other side? Surveillance capitalism and exclusionary technology or a fairer and more socially progressive world?

Gen-X, Gen-Y, Digital Native. After two months of lockdown we’re all the coronavirus generation. But what will the world look like for this brand new Gen-C?

Virtual Meetings taking over your life? Developing Instagram Face so your boss thinks you’re paying attention when you’re really watching cute cats? Welcome to the WFH world of video chats

On the first of two shows about Gen C, we look at the cultural shifts that COVID-19 is creating and wonder how these circumstances will affect the consumers of tomorrow. And which companies will be crowned the Coronavirus Kings.

Today we look at some of the technology that is helping us to strike back at the coronavirus. From UV-emitting robots to face tracking apps, and fake news detection to AI vaccine modelling. It’s time to fight the fear.

This World Happiness Day MSP is thinking about machines. Can machines be happy? How do we feel about machines that are programmed to seem happy? And is the idea of machine happiness more disturbing than machines that feel nothing at all?

We might not be able to inoculate ourselves against against viruses like Covid-19, but, while we wait for that prevention or cure, can we protect ourselves from the stresses of our uncertain lives?

FaceID dodging face masks, no flying cars, the robot uprising, VR fish and chromosomes. Not forgetting butter made from fly larvae. That’s right: science is sick.

What makes us human? With permanent moon bases and Mars colonies being planned, it may be a question we have to ask ourselves sooner rather than later. Could food be our connection to the planet we leave behind?

The only way is up. That’s been the mantra of city planners for decades. But could climate change and population growth force us to dig deeper for solutions? Could the future of humanity be underground?

What will the world look like by 2029? Where will we live? Where will we work? What will we be doing for fun? Nothing at all, if MSP has anything to do with it.

Pills that inject, the Veganuary prize, space wars, satellite lawsuits and contact lenses that can protect your skin. Science is sick!

As icons like James Dean and Carrie Fisher are recreated in the afterlife and summoned by CGI to star in new pictures, are we facing a zombie horde of never dead CGI film stars?

Can you live in the cloud? Sounds ridiculous but research to create digital replicas of the human brain could eventually enable us to live forever, replacing retirement communities with server farms.

In the wake of CES Las Vegas, MSP’s Father Time, Matt Armitage, looks back at some of his favourite gadgets of the ages.