Ten Billion
From: Thursday, 12th July 2012
To: Saturday, 11 August 2012
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Synopsis
By the end of this century, the human population is likely to be over ten billion. Just twenty five years ago, it was less than five billion. How are the choices we're making as a species impacting upon our environment? And how will the sheer force of numbers affect the way we live in the future? Scientist Stephen Emmott and director Katie Mitchell deliver a new kind of scientific lecture, highlighting key issues being lost in translation in our discussion of the environment. Ten Billion paints a vivid portrait of a species with its head in the sand.
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Theo Bosanquet - 19 July 2012
It's not often at a press night that you ask the critic next to you who they're writing for and receive the reply "the New Scientist". But such was the case at the Royal Court Upstairs, where Katie Mitchell is the surprise director of possibly the most down-to-earth, no-nonsense production you'll see all year.
Mitchell has asked Stephen Emmott, a professor of computational science at Oxford University, to deliver, in his own words, "a discourse on the biggest experiment ever carried out by humans" - the exponential expansion of its own population.
The 65-minute lecture is delivered on a stage made up by designer Giles Cadle to replicate Emmott's office at Oxford, the walls of which host projections of graphics illustrating some frankly terrifying statistics (the title refers to the projected global populatation by the end of the century).
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betsy - 20 July 2012:
That quote is rubbish. One Google search used about 1/500 the energy used in boiling a kettle of water. That was in 2009, computing efficiency has probably improved 5-10 fold since. http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/powering-google-search.html http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_kWh_does_boiling_a_kettle_use...
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Creative
Stephen Emmott (in collaboration with Katie Mitchell) (Author)
Coutts (Corporate Sponsor)
Royal Court Theatre (Festival d'Avignon) (Producer)
Katie Mitchell (Director)
Giles Cadle (Design)
Leo Warner (video - for 59 Productions) (Design)
Paul Clark (Music)
Jon Clark (Lighting)
Gareth Fry (Sound)
Lyndsey Turner (Associate Director) (Director)
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