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London is getting ready to host the next Summer Olympics. The 2012 Olympic Park and Village are being built right next door to a public housing project, providing a stark contrast between funds spent on residents there and funds spent on visiting athletes. In this documentary produced for the BBC World Service, Nina Robinson visits this housing project in East London to see how residents there view preparations for the upcoming Olympics.

  
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Since its birth almost twenty years ago, the World Wide Web has transformed our planet. But will the Web’s empowerment of ordinary people endure? Dr. Aleks Krotoski documents the Web’s remarkable growth and asks if the old hierarchies it challenges are managing to adapt to “The Virtual Revolution.”
 

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Aleks Krotoski

The Internet has transformed the relationship between individual and state. It gives citizens greater freedom of expression, brings new openness to politics, and challenges censorship. But with two billion users now online, does this freedom also allow enemies of liberty to flourish? Aleks Krotoski considers the potential – and the dangers – of the online future; a future that could change the shape of warfare.

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THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world.
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