Had been sensationally barred from standing in any of the 93 vacant seats that currently dont have a tory candidate. But rishi sunak has since denied that exclusively to us. Stand by for some fighting talk from the Prime Minister and next, the former labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn has dramatically announced that he will stand as announced that he will stand as an independent in islington north, leaving keir starmer no opfion north, leaving keir starmer no option but to boot him out. Finally, of the labour party. Finally, of the labour party. And theres the rest of the days news away from the general election as well, because in the past few hours, the 10,000th small boat migrant to arrive this year landed in britain. Mark white will join us live from dover to discuss this stark landmark. And thats all coming up between now and 4 00. Well, the show always a delight to have your company. Its bedlam on the election trail already. Chaos in the conservatives theres 75 people standing down no
When we were writing the book, we really tried to find the first social scientist and policymakers that recognized that technology was doubling in performance and it was decades after the article. The social sciences were really reactive to the science and, you know, as a result, next slide, we are still playing catchup. So, you know, neil says anybody can make almost anything but right now 4 billion people are not connected, you cant have a digital fabrication if youre not digit le connected. Before we get to a fab divide which would hold on one second. Access is not binary, its not like you have it or you dont. One investors is Sesame Workshop and they do great job on inclusion and talk about continuation of access. Billions of people have a feature phone, thats all. Try rating a document, fabrication work flows on a future phone, so not even if you have access, you may have minimal access, cost is an issue so about 2 billion people have very limited access. So already most of the pl
This is bbc news, the headlines the Us Government is to fund thousands of hospital beds for coronavirus patients in the hot spot states of new york, california and washington. Meanwhile partisan disputes in the senate have been holding up the approval of a huge stimulus bill to help an economy hit hard by the pandemic. Britons have been warned to take advice on social distancing seriously or stricter measures could be imposed. Prime minister borisjohnson said a lockdown like those seen in other European Countries was being considered and said people ignoring advice were putting lives at risk. For the first time theres been an acknowledgement from the japanese Prime Minister that the Tokyo Olympic games may have to be postponed because of coronavirus. Shinzo abe told parliament a delay might have to be considered if safety could not be guaranteed. World athletics, as well as the canadian and Australian Olympic committees, have said the games cannot go ahead in july. Now on bbc news, its
Now on bbc news its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sakal welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sakai. The worldwide spread of coronavirus and its significant negative impact on the Global Economy represents a powerful illustration of the perils of forecasting. Countries in lockdown, Financial Markets in turmoil, this isnt the way 2020 was supposed to pan out. An opportune moment than for myjust pan out. An opportune moment than for my just today. Pan out. An opportune moment than for myjust today. Acclaimed writer and businesswoman margaret heffernan, to publish a book challenging the fed association fetishisation of forecasting. Is it is time to embrace uncertainty . Margaret heffernan, welcome to hardtalk. I think we would all like to believe that as Human Knowledge expands, particularly with technology, our ability to forecast the future accurately improves. Is it your contention that that is not true . Is in my contention that it isnt true. Definitely, our
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The worldwide spread of coronavirus and its significant negative impact on the Global Economy represents a powerful illustration of the perils of forecasting. Countries in lockdown, Financial Markets in turmoil this isnt the way 2020 was supposed to pan out. An opportune moment then for my guest today. Acclaimed writer and businesswoman margaret heffernan, to publish a book challenging the fetishisation of forecasting. Is it time to embrace uncertainty . Margaret heffernan, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. I think we would all like to believe that as Human Knowledge expands, particularly with technology, our ability to forecast the future accurately improves. Is it your contention that that is not true . It isnt my contention that it isnt true. Definitely, our capacity to forecast many things has improved, specifically the weather although it may not often feel that way. But i think what has happe