Breaking Encyclopedic Timing

Kam Raslan | Hezril Asyraaf | Matt Armitage

23-Oct-20 21:00

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This week on A Bit of Culture, we tackle three topics with BFM's Hezryl Asyraaf and Matt Armitage. Starting off with Hezryl's idealistic search for the "right time", basing off his thoughts on American politics and serendipitous life events. Kam Raslan then steers the conversation by looking up Google's probable arch nemesis - the Encyclopædia Brittanica. And we round off this week's culture roundtable with Matt's subject on human behaviour online; spotting a gap in the internet sphere, especially during the pandemic.

Produced by: Ali Johan

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Categories: Technology, Tech, Medical Innovation and Technology, Personal Development, Politics, Social Issues, History, People and Places

Tags: Joe Biden, New York Times, first mover, new ideas, post-truth age, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, the internet, public park, social media,

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