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Robert Winston

Bad Ideas? An Arresting History of our Inventions

Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 30 May 2.30pm

The moment man first converted a stone to a useful tool set him on a relentless path toward greater power over his environment. But have our creative ideas always produced desirable results in line with their original good intention? Chaired by Hilary Lawson, chair of the How The Light Gets In philosophy festival.