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Technology

Small inventions that changed the world

RSA Event / Video / Online

02 Mar 2023

Online via YouTube

Award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions that have changed our lives in dramatic ways.
100 years of British broadcasting

RSA Event / Video / Online

15 Dec 2022

Online via YouTube

Broadcast historian David Hendy looks back on 100 years of the BBC and reflects on how BBC broadcasting came to be such a central part of the British Christmas experience.
How our social connections impact our economic mobility

RSA Event / Video / Online

23 Nov 2022

Online Webinar via Zoom

Harvard economist Professor Raj Chetty and Lucy Makinson, Behavioural Insights Team discuss how connectivity, social cohesion and civic engagement can play a role in shaping income equality and economic opportunity.
2022 RDI Address

RSA Event / Video / Online

17 Nov 2022

RSA House and online via YouTube

Jo da Silva DBE RDI, global director of Sustainable Development at Arup will give this year’s RDI Address on building resilience in cities and communities to reduce vulnerability and improve social wellbeing.
Slouching towards utopia

RSA Event / Video / Online

13 Oct 2022

Online via YouTube

One of the world’s most celebrated economists, Brad DeLong, explains just how and why the long twentieth century’s explosion of technology and prosperity has failed to deliver us a real utopia.
If science is to save us

RSA Event / Video

29 Sep 2022

RSA House and Online via YouTube

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees argues that if we are to solve the multiple crises we now face, we need long-term, rational, global thinking, guided by values science alone cannot provide.
Cash, cards, crypto: inside the war for our wallets

RSA Event / Video / Online

14 Jul 2022

Online via YouTube

Campaigner and monetary anthropologist Brett Scott explores the realities of a cashless society – how it works, who stands to gain, who will get left behind and what this future means for data privacy.
Designing our futures: The 2022 RSA Student Design Awards

RSA Event / Video / Online

29 Jun 2022

RSA House and online via YouTube

How can design help us to build a better future? Alice Rawsthorn, award-winning design critic, author and co-founder of Design Emergency, delivers the 2022 RSA Student Design Awards keynote address.
Can we be free in the age of the internet?

RSA Event / Video / Online

23 Jun 2022

Online via YouTube

How can we protect our right to think freely against the vast influence of the internet? Human rights lawyer Susie Alegre explores the long history and current state of the struggle to set our minds free.
Venture capital and the future of innovation

RSA Event / Online

31 May 2022

RSA House and Online via YouTube

Renowned financial reporter Sebastian Mallaby argues that if we want to spur transformative innovation and spread it more widely, it’s essential we understand how venture capitalists think, and why they matter.