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This is not the future we were promised.
Like, how about that for a tech line for the show?
From the BBC, this is The Interface,
the show that explores how tech is rewiring your week and your world.
This isn't about quarterly earnings or about tech reviews.
It's about what technology is actually doing to your work and your politics, your everyday life.
and all the bizarre ways people are using the internet.
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Hello, my name's Tim.
If you like bloodthirsty pirates and riches beyond your wildest dreams, then shiver me timbers.
Today's story is spot on.
We begin one moonlit night as Jim Hawkins,
a young boy working at a harbourside inn in Bristol, hears shouts from downstairs.
A yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum,
a salty old sea captain named Billy Bones is arguing with a rough-looking sailor who hands him a black spot.
The next morning, Billy Bones is dead.
Opening his room, Jim spots an old wooden sea chest containing a compass,
a ship's logbook, and a stained, spotted piece of paper.
Now whatever could that be?