FutureProofing Radio 4
Desert Island Discs Radio 4
Be afraid, be very afraid. Forget getting your credit card hacked, there are much more serious fears about crime in the future.
Now you can have one single criminal robbing simultaneously 100 million people at one time.
How bad could future crime be? So bad, that it makes Nastase look like Dixon of Dock Green, the presenter warned.
Me? I was thinking lovable crazy tennis player. It took a while for the penny to drop ... crime so bad it makes the STASI look like Dixon. Ah yes.
But as technology becomes more and more hi-tech, the criminal mind has a lot more opportunity.
Think hacking into pacemakers, hospitals, air traffic control systems ... and these are just examples that have already happened, said the presenter.
Criminals could produce bespoke bio-weapons, they could steal your genetic material and use it ... put it at a crime scene and frame you for a crime you did not commit.
Yikes. It’s worse than every single futuristic thriller you’ve ever seen ... another day in Paradise? Not so sure.
Tom Hanks probably starred in one of those futuristic thrillers. He was this week’s guest on Desert Island Discs.
He had a “vagabond” kind of childhood, he said. His parents split when he was five and by the age of ten he had lived in ten different houses in five different cities.
His mum could not afford to have four kids, he said in a matter-of-fact way, so his dad took three of them.
He fell heartbreakingly silent when asked about his parents’ divorce and his nomadic childhood, telling Kirsty Young “What have you done to me? I put far too much into this list.”
And he talked about the great loneliness, he had felt.
But he was also upbeat and funny and above all, genuine. Despite all the research, said Kirsty, she could not find anyone who had a bad word to say about him.
“You have to dig a little deeper,” he hit back.
