The Ideas That Make Us - Part 4 Technology

Street philosophy with award-winning historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes. She begins each programme with the first, extant evidence of a single word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels both forwards and backwards in time, investigating how these ideas have been moulded by history, and how they've shaped us. A history of ideas described as “a double espresso shot of philosophy, history, science and the arts.”

4. Technology
Bettany explores changing ideas about technology through time at an archaeological dig, in mythology, at an electrical shop and in the future.