Digital data is vulnerable. Yet entire libraries are shredded and lost to budget cuts, because we assume everything can be found online. But is that really true? For the first time in history, we have the technological means to save our entire past, yet it seems to be going up in smoke. Will we suffer from collective amnesia?

Reliance on fossil fuels is over. We have entered an era of smarter, greener, more connected living and Ireland's smart grid is absolutely key to the homes, transport, and communications networks of the future! Aoibhinn travels to Amsterdam, one of the world's smartest cities to find out how they are aiming to electrify their entire transport network by 2025. Back in Ireland, she test drives the new Tesla eCar and meets ESB's Paul Mulvaney to discuss...

Maintaining a balance between work/study and personal life is already challenging enough-the Internet and our phones can cause those worlds to clash at any given moment. But this challenge is especially difficult for telecommuters and distance learners. How do you keep work and life separate when they literally happen under the same roof? This video provides tips on work-life balance for those who work or go to school from the comfort of their own...

"What is innovation? How important is innovation in business? How can we use it to succeed? In the last 150 years our world has been transformed - largely due to innovation. Our parents were born into a world where television had yet to be invented, and there was no penicillin or frozen food. Our great grandparents began life in a world with no light bulbs, cars, telephones, or airplanes." "This Very Short Introduction looks at what innovation is...

Advances in technology have enabled medicinal chemists to discover and formulate several highly specific, biocompatible, and non-toxic therapeutic agents for clinical applications. Nanotechnology has achieved significant progress in the last few decades and is crucial in every field of science and technology. Nanotechnology-based pharmaceuticals offer multifaceted and alternative methodologies in comparison to the limitations of many conventional...

From the dawn of agriculture thousands of years ago to the advent of industrialization in recent centuries, humanity has produced more food and created more goods for people across the planet. Will this trend continue? Those who believe this trend will continue argue that advances in science and technology will enable future societies to harness energy and natural resources more safely and produce goods more efficiently. These advances, they contend,...

Modern food production is largely dependent on fossil fuels. Now that we are beginning to reach the end of them, the main question remains: How will we feed a global population of 9 billion people in 2050? In the Netherlands, Belgium and Silicon Valley, numerous startups have sprung up that use smart technology, big data and new distribution systems to find solutions. This program explores tomorrow's food, which not only needs to be sustainable, tasty...