Tomorrow's World

[Mich the Tester]

Stop whinging, get Sky and watch the documentary channels...

I have the channels, but I think it's better if good quality scientific programming is available to everybody. I think DP's point, and certainly my point, is that this would be good for all of society.

 

[ace00]

I agree - IMO UK took a wrong turn somewhere. I think a lower population, working on science & technology (and patents!) could have led to a golden age, but instead pursued consumption and growth alone which is not a long term strategy.

 

[thelace]

I've worked in R & D with many well respected Scientists.

All they are asked to do these days is to design something cheaper, not design something better. They are all downheartened, because that is not what they studied to do!

 

[ratewhore]

I have the channels, but I think it's better if good quality scientific programming is available to everybody. I think DP's point, and certainly my point, is that this would be good for all of society.

In which case, everybody get Sky and watch the documentary channels.

Job done...

 

[Moscow Mule]

I'd like to see the BBC make a program about critical thinking and scientific method. Some of the Horizon shows are excellent, the Natural World, Coast and so on are brilliant too, but I'd like them to put on a program showing people the method and the way of thinking behind the science, and put it on BBC 1 at primetime; a bit of the old 'educate and inform' could go a long way to helping people seperate media guff from hard facts.

Arrrr...

Or put "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre on the national curriculum for 7 year olds. Then the parents would have to read it too as it's got some big words in it.

 

[FSM with Cheddar]

Or put "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre on the national curriculum for 7 year olds. Then the parents would have to read it too as it's got some big words in it.

Yeah, if kids were brought up to think critically like Ben Goldacre, then our country would be a better place.

 

[d000hg]

I have the channels, but I think it's better if good quality scientific programming is available to everybody. I think DP's point, and certainly my point, is that this would be good for all of society.

Loads and loads of people have Freeview these days, once they do the digital switchover won't everyone? You don't get everything but I think at least a couple of channels focus these way, even if it's more on the history/nature side.

 

[Solidec]

I loved Tommorows World growing up as a kid. Used to watch every week without fail with my parents. But then I was always a scheicne bod at heart, 3 sciences for A-Levels and a Biochemistry Degree. God only knows why i turned my back on it and went into IT Never forgive myself.

 

[Doggy Styles]

I loved Tommorows World growing up as a kid. Used to watch every week without fail with my parents. But then I was always a scheicne bod at heart, 3 sciences for A-Levels and a Biochemistry Degree. God only knows why i turned my back on it and went into IT Never forgive myself.

Me too. I studied reproduction at college.

 

[Mich the Tester]

Yeah, if kids were brought up to think critically like Ben Goldacre, then our country would be a better place.

I’d add to this by suggesting that every child should learn and be examined on Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection kit, and read his ‘Demon Haunted World’.