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Breakfast: Technological Future – Utopia or Dystopia?

When: 04/06/2019 07:30 - 08:30 Where: The Maids Head Hotel, Tombland, Norwich, Norwich Price: 13.95 GBP RSVP:   https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/qqwhznyzjbgb/ Technological Future – Utopia or Dystopia? A Norfolk Developers breakfast discussion with Callum Coombes and Fiona Lettice . Technological innovation allows organisations to do more with less. As well as improving innovation and productivity, new technologies will help us with some of the key challenges ahead – making better use of limited resources like energy and water, mitigating the effects of climate change on food and poverty, disease prevention, and improving healthcare for an ageing population. Technological innovation has generally been a powerful force for good, creating new jobs and improving salaries. But new technology also threatens jobs and whole industries, with devastating consequences in some communities and with the benefits unevenly distributed. So is the future utopi