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Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University, on the role of Educational Computer Technology in helping children in geographically, economically and socially remote areas of the world to teach themselves.

This includes the hole in the wall experiment where a kiosk with a computer was built in to a wall in a slum in Delhi allowing children to use it freely and to teach themselves computer skills. His experiments served as inspiration for the author behind the film Slumdog Millionaire.

Award winning author and playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri juggles his dual heritage from Sweden and Tunisia to take issue with names and their ability to confer meaning. His latest play Invasion! is currently on at the Soho theatre in London.

Can we teach ourselves to think differently? Neuroscientist Gregory Berns argues that by understanding how our brain works we can train ourselves to become more innovative and creative.

By recognising the cognitive functions that makes someone an Iconoclast - a person who does something that others say can't be done - we can perhaps even become one ourselves.