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	Podcast:		Future Tense - Full program podcast
	Episode:		Fairphones, language in the digital world and the useless machine
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:29:15
	Publish Date:		2013-06-15 20:30:00
	Description:		We have ‘fair trade’ coffee and ‘fair trade’ bananas, so why not a ‘fair trade’ mobile phone? Bas Van Abel and his Amsterdam-based colleagues are busy perfecting a cell phone that isn’t made by exploited labourers. We also explore how and why new technologies are helping to reshape our language with Tom Chatfield, author of a new book called 'Netymology'. And finally we look at the concept of the useless machine with Brett Coulthard, CEO of the Frivolous Engineering Company.
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