" Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact". - Thomas Huxley
Becky Hogge is a technology journalist. Her writing on information politics, human rights and technology has appeared regularly in the New Statesman, and she has also been published in, among others, Index on Censorship, the Guardian, Prospect, Dazed and Confused and The Face.
In 2007, she became the executive director of the Open Rights Group. For two years, she led the organisation into battle against electronic voting, online censorship and mass communication surveillance before passing on the campaign baton in 2009 and moving to rural East Anglia. Becky's first book is Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia.
First broadcast on 26th August 2011.