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World Wise Web
Teenagers from around the world talk to technology pioneers who have shaped their lives.
World Wise Web Podcast Guide
Listen to World Wise Web, a Technology podcast by BBC. Stream 13 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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13 episodesDrones
Eighteen year old Michael, from Dubai, who wants to become an engineer, talks to Keller Rinaudo, whose company Zipline has built what they s...
Prosthetics
Eighteen-old-entrepreneur Leander, from Greece, discovers how sci-fi became reality, through the work of leading orthopaedic surgeon Profess...
Formula 1 simulator
In the late 1990s, engineer Dr Caroline Hargrove was working with the McLaren motor racing team when she developed the first Formula 1 simul...
The mobile phone
In 1973, Marty Cooper made the first public mobile phone call using his newly invented cell phone. Now, there are more mobile phones on the...
Internet networks
Computer programmer Radia Perlman is often called "the mother of the internet". In the late 1970s, she started working in network routing –...
Computer animation
In 1995, Pixar Animation Studios created Toy Story, the first feature length computer animated film, and a blockbuster that changed cinema h...
Google Search
In 1998, a small company was launched offering a simple way to search the World Wide Web. That company was Google. Now every day billions of...
GPS
The digital world only works if it is connected. In the early 1970s, Professor Bradford Parkinson was working with the United States Air For...
Lithium ion battery
Forty years ago, Professor John Goodenough developed the lithium ion battery and kick-started the wireless revolution. From electric cars to...
Socially assistive robots
Assistive robots can act as companions and coaches to young and old alike, from autistic children to stroke survivors. Eighteen-year-old Sal...
The iPod
The breakthrough design of the iPod - a portable music player that made the CDs and cassette tapes that had gone before redundant - totally...
The preview
From GPS to Google search, meet the innovators and engineers who shape our digital world. Teenagers from around the globe talk to the tech p...
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This page lists 13 episodes for World Wise Web.