It is still not clear what effect this will have on the financial future of the sector, and how the industry can anticipate, protect and direct its way forward into the 21st Century. You will also be aware of the headway that many companies are making in this field. This groundbreaking event addressed the ways that e-commerce will transform the way that pharmaceutical companies do business. Monday 8 November 1999, 7.30pm ICA, The Mall, London Over the next 20 years nanotechnology and engineering will change our lives dramatically. In groundbreaking new work, theoretical physicist Julian Barbour argues that there is no time.
Reality is static.
Motion and the apparent flow of time are both illusions. Professor Michael Rowan Robinson, Dept of Astrophysics, Imperial College and Dr Julian Barbour, author of The End of Time are joined by Georgina Ferry, science writer and broadcaster, to discuss Time and the Universe - a Millennial Conundrum. We are poised on the edge of a new era of human exploration and commercial exploitation heralding huge economic change. Clever computational tools are successfully mimicking human intelligence. In the last event of this series, Gibson will talk about how cutting-edge science affects culture, the way computer technology is changing what it means to be human.