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What looks like an interesting Radio 4 programme tonight at 21.30
21:30 The Long View
Jonathan Freedland returns with the series that uses the past to illuminate the present.
The founders of Google have a lofty vision of how the internet search engine can transform society. But this was an ambition shared by Whig politician Henry Brougham back in 1826.
Brougham created the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and used the newly-invented steam press to make information available on an unprecedented scale. Detractors attacked him for dominating the emerging knowledge economy. Are Google and other internet search engines facing the same criticisms today?
21:30 The Long View
Jonathan Freedland returns with the series that uses the past to illuminate the present.
The founders of Google have a lofty vision of how the internet search engine can transform society. But this was an ambition shared by Whig politician Henry Brougham back in 1826.
Brougham created the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and used the newly-invented steam press to make information available on an unprecedented scale. Detractors attacked him for dominating the emerging knowledge economy. Are Google and other internet search engines facing the same criticisms today?