According to Aleks Krotoski on the BBC Culture Show, the web – the world’s biggest serendipity engine – is in danger of losing its mojo. Personalised software is threatening happy chance encounters by serving you up stuff based on the things you already do and like. This scenario is the so-called filter bubble. It arises [...]

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Francis Ford Coppola – I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say – I learned so much today, that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It is only 100 years old.

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