19/09/2013 Newsnight

A tonight the companies employing our teenagers for no wages. The new

reality of the jobs market or state-sanctioned exploitation.

Remember this? Tonight all will be revealed, it is called the Internet

of things, and it is going to change your life. And...Hello

Newsnight, I'm Usain Bolt, I'm a phenomenon and a legend.

Hello good evening. We will have a look at the explosives new

biography Kevin McBride. First this programme has learned that one of

the best new repair firms for cars is using a Government scheme to

recruit workers for free. Kwik Fit has offered young people work for

nothing. The company gets £1600 for each rainy, they get nothing. --

trainee. How do you see it? Cars are my passion, always has

been, ever since I was a little boy. When it comes to cars the best way

of learning is hands on, that is probably, my favourite way. For

thousands of teenager, this is the very first step on a very long

ladder. These apprentices are the lucky one, with youth unemployment

still nudging in a million, it is harder than ever to get nearer that

dream job. It is hard to get jobs, it is hard to like us to get into

the apprenticeship we got in to, it was hard to get. For years the

the apprenticeship we got in to, it traditional route for a car

mechanic, chef or nursery nurse has been through an apprenticeship

scheme, you study at college at the same time earning money in a proper

job, if only at £2.65 an hour. There is, though, still a large

group of young people who struggle to get this far. The answer, says

the Government, is a new type of scheme, designed to help the most

disadvantaged. Traineeships are meant to combine work experience

disadvantaged. Traineeships are with classes in English and maths,

plus general skills like CV writing, they run for up to five months, but

they are exempt from minimum wage legislation. Over 100 firms have

said they are interested in taking part, with a big push by the

Government expected this autumn. One of the first high street brands

to sign up to the scheme is the car repair firm Kwik Fit, it is already

advertising traineeships on-line. They read very much like any normal

job advert, the position is advertised for five months, the

working week is up to 39 hours, Tuesday to Saturday. All this is

completely voluntary, but also completely unpaid. Nick has been

closely watching the further education sector for years, he

first spotted the Kwik Fit advert this week and a number of others

like it? Traineeships have been the opportunity to be a fantastic

programme for young people to get into work and a full-time job. Here

we are talking about young people unpaid working up to 900 or more

hours, for a big employer with multimillion pound profits, they

need to pay for the benefit of having employees. In this case they

are not. Kwik Fit is already a big employer of apprentices, and denies

this new scheme is anything like exploitation. There is no

suggestion the firm is breaking the rules, but it is getting £1600 per

trainee from the Government. In statement the company said:

The Government has had its own problems with work experience. Last

year there was sitdown protests, after it tried to introduce

benefits sanctions for people who refused to sign up to the schemes.

Ministers are though convinced that these kinds of programmes can be

affective. Crucial -- Effective. Crucially work experience works, I

want to tackle youth unemployment, all the experience shows that

working, English and maths are the three crucial things for young

people to get maths. That is why we have designed traineeships in this

way, especially where they can lead into apprenticeships which help

people get more skills in work in a job and help tackle youth

unemployment. For some of today's teenagers it is a tough choice,

work for free or don't work at all. When I went to my interview for the

job I said I couldn't care less I was getting paid because cars I are

all I want to do. You should expect to be paid, if you are putting

yourself out you need to be rewarded with something.

Tonight after questions from Newsnight Kwik Fit withdrew its job

advertisment and replaced with a new version. It now says that

although its work experience programme is expected to last five

months, it may well finish sooner, it says there will now be a

guaranteed job interview for every trainee at the end of the process.

Is it a convenient way to get kids to work for nothing, or is it just

the new reality in a jobs market that is tight. With me is Toby

Perkins, shadow Business Minister, and Lottie Dexter, who campaigns

for jobs for young people. The One Million Campaign. You heard the

young guy there say he couldn't care less if he got paid because

this is what he wants to. Do I guess of any kind is better than no

work? It is. But it is a pretty sad reflection on the state of our

economy and the way that the Government are making us into a

low-wage economy that people are now going to be working for five

months on the bays that they will then, if they make the grade, be

given an opportunity to go for an interview, in order to go on to an

apprenticeship, to work for below minimum wage for two years. What it

apprenticeship, to work for below really shows you is, yes it is a

new reality for people in Cameron's Britain. You have made up that

trajectory, they are working for five months for free, which many

people would call training, apprenticeship? People would call

it that. Apprenticeships are a low- apprenticeship? People would call

income way of a company having a qi quid pro quo, where at the same

time that you are developing you are developing your skills and you

are working. Now we have a qualification period to get on to

the apprenticeship. When I was 17 I was on £35 a week on a YTS, he

never thought that many years later £35 was too much to pay young

people. Are we selling young people down the plughole? We have far too

many young people leaving school without the experience or skills

needed to get an actual job, we have nearly one million young

people unemployed, traineeships bridge what is very often a very

scary and dicey journey from school into work. You would say to people

go and do this, it doesn't matter if you have a five-day a week

without being paid go and do it? I have run a lobby group for jobs for

young people, we have spoken to a group before going on this

programme, they say they would prefer to go working in a real

garage with real mechanics and interacting with customers, than

they would sitting behind a desk and being force fed by teachers, we

shouldn't write these off. Are you saying that employers shouldn't put

these out? You can't blame them if they have this opportunity. What is

your message to Kwik Fit? My message is that we have got

apprenticeships there, they are really valuable tool. A the lot of

young people aren't ready for apprenticeships, that is why we

need traineeships, because they have been failed by an education

system that isn't working. The whole point of the apprenticeships

is people came out of school and earned a low wage at the time the

company were spending time with them and getting ready for a job

market and they can't be paid for doing that. Pbgt aweren't tisships

are great and perform very well, but they are not. Apprenticeships

are great and perform well, there are a group of people unable to

take them up and not ready, and that was because education failed

under the Labour Government. Where you have a kid with one of these

training schemes who wakes up with a hangover who thinks, you know

training schemes who wakes up with what I'm not getting paid any way,

I might not go this week or whatever, you don't get that sense

of what you are actually working towards, do you? For a traineeship,

that is the point, it instills work ethic, it builds an attitude,

rather than going to school you are going in and interacting with

colleagues, you are meeting your boss, you are taking on that

responsibility. That is the point of a traineeship. It is to get the

hardest to help, the most vulnerable young people who are the

furthest away from the jobs market a link from school into a training

scheme, into an apprenticeship, which are very important. It does

seem odd, Labour has already taken us down this workfare path, what is

your argument when this was started really under Tony Blair? This

wasn't started under Tony Blair, we have a plan in terms of the long-

term unemployed with the job sharing. You did the Primark

schemes? We have the Future Jobs Fund which this Government

abolished, they have abolished mandatory work experience, we heard

the minister say that work experience is important. They have

cut back on the careers service, they have further education, a key

part in all of this, massive cuts. Let's go back to what you would do

at this point. Would you actually go out please don't take the

Government up on these schemes, do not offer these five-month schemes,

what would you do? I'm not saying to employers that they shouldn't

take it up. Why aren't you if you feel so strongly? The point is the

Government is creating a low- skilled, low-wage economy, because

their entire strategy is around getting people to work either for

free or nothing. They have a minimum wage, but at the same time

they keep kinding ways to not do that. Traineeships are important,

we need them. Thank you very much both of you.

With two days to go to the Labour conference, an explosive new tone

to add to your pile of new Labour memoirs, Damian McBride has written

his account of his time in power, it is promising to be a tell-all,

smears and all sorts only read about in fiction. It is serialised

in the Mail exclusively from tomorrow. We have it hot off the

press. What is in the book? It doesn't promise it is. These two

pages in it have a series of assassinations, he admits himself

he took down John Reid, Charles Clarke, Ivan, we have a few quotes.

He talks about how he's this inversion of a priest, people come

to him, tell him the sins of people they don't like in the hope that he

publicises them more widely. He's very honest about what he did. It

is one of the most honest and gruesome accounts of being a spin

doctor that I do actually think one of the last implications could be

that it does shock quite a few viewers/readers, it exposes how

people do politics at the top of Westminster. In case we thought

that politic was clean and lovely! Indeed, most people thought it was

pretty hardcore. Except he details, goes through exactly how you hack

into a Government account, exactly Despite the comfortable familiarity,

they say there are problems that Despite the comfortable familiarity,

come with this. The borough is now 17% white British. Loads of people

living in our streets were English people, but over the years, 34-macro

years, -- three or four years, I have been people coming in from

other communities and settling down. The couple admit that it is

largely Indian is that they spend their time with, rather than

largely Indian is that they spend widening their social group. And it

is this instinct that the mayor wants to counter. As this borough

becomes increasingly diverse, the mayor has introduced a series of

fairly bold measures aimed at holding on to some of the

Britishness. In libraries, he has removed foreign language newspapers

and withdrawn translation services. He will no longer fund a single

community events. Sir Robin Wales has been the directly elected mayor

since 2002. Before that, he was council leader here. We don't make

people integrate we just encourage it. We can't make anybody do

anything. People spent time with their own ethnic group and religion

and that is great, and often they contribute to a community

tremendously and do good things, but we say that if we are doing

something we will support people coming together. I am strongly of

the view that if you try to segregate people into different

groups and keep them separate, that is not only bad for individuals but

the community that you do it too. Apartheid was wrong in South Africa

and it would be wrong here. Keeping people separate must be a bad thing.

It was also the first local authority in England to introduce

landlord regulations, and they have to release convictions and live up

to British standards here. Counsel police officers are looking for a

rogue landlords and an acceptable living conditions, things like whole

families living in one room, which the mayor would consider unBritish.

Also if they find suspected illegal immigrants on the raid, they will be

handed over. The Mayor wants to know how many houses in his borough are

like this one. The landlords that these tenants pay their rent to does

not have a licence from the councils they will be subject to a fine.

Altogether 15 people live in this three-bedroom house. Everybody is

aware of the conditions and the law and they are being exploited, but

still they have to take it the hard way because they have no other

chance. Very few people object to cracking down on poor housing

conditions, but the Mayor's overall agenda is divisive. Absolutely

people should integrate but they should not be forced to assimilate.

people should integrate but they I can understand if you are not

using your translation services and I can understand if you are not

at a time when local authorities have to save money and you realised

some of the services are not value for money that you could remove

them. But if you are removing them from vulnerable people that need

them, for ideological reasons, then that starts to make you question

what the values are of the people doing it. Newham recently rejected

plans to build the biggest mosque in the borough. Critics argue this was

another ideological decision. The mayor insists that it was simply not

the right place for it. Some people find your policy is offensive. They

say you are denying people's heritage and ignore it. Never,

never. I think it is wonderful when people remember their heritage and

where they come from and I celebrate that. But the council should not be

paying for it. Do you think these policies could transfer to other

parts of the UK, this tough approach? I don't accept that it is

tougher. Most people would say it is a tough time, we have to save

money, we are currently experimenting with a range of ways

of providing cheaper, free English language. What we do is provide

free English language teaching for anybody that wants to work.

Within the borough of Newham and right next door to the Olympic Park

sits Stratford Market, most of the traders have been here for decades.

I ask what they make of the integration agenda? When in Rome do

what the Romans do. If you live in England and you have made this your

home, then yes, you should learn to speak English. Wherever they live

in their part of Newham, wherever it may be, there will be more poles

-- Poles or Bangladeshis, and they revert back, whether they have

taken the papers or translators away, it isn't going to change

nothing. The minute you should the door, it is back to normal for them.

Same as it is for us. Before Newham hosts another

citizenship ceremony I met this man, who is about to get his British

passport. He has been in the UK 18 years already and he says he can't

wait. I want citizenship, I have lived a long time in England. Jo it

is like a dream, I live in the UK but not citizen or British, my

passport is Bangladeshi. To everyone the passport is a British

citizen. Do you guys ever have to everyone the passport is a British

use translators, have you used translators? Sometimes, some

problems with the doctor, I'm not understanding and they are not

talking to the doctor. For them it is not as simple as saying of

learning the language, he didn't feel his English was good enough to

explain why. TRANSLATION: I have tried a lot for 18 years, I have

been to college and worked with English people, understanding is

not a problem. It doesn't stay in my head, I'm older now, if I was

younger it would have stayed. Back at East Ham Town Hall, two weeks

after Mini and Shibu became British, it is Amiral's turn, he joins 15

other people. Amiral Islam from Bangladesh please. Wife Jackia

can't stop smiling. He proudly stands in front of the Union Jack

he tells me is now his flag. Sir Robin's critics say he wants fewer

new arrivals and more middle-class white people living in the borough.

The question for the other new citizens in the room is whether

they can fit into the mayor's vision for Newham. Congratulations

you are free to go. You can hear the full documentary,

Naturalising Newham by heading to the BBC Asian Network website. We

have Sir Robin Wales and Claire Fox. What is wrong with the individual

moves? I'm not here to be critical of the individual moves, want to

take a step back. I get a bit nervous when we say, I think we

probably agree on this, there is a problem with some of the

multicultural policies of the past that were very devisive that made

people identify with their cultural identity rather than a broader

project. For me some of the things that have been put forward seem to

be very technical, very narrow and I don't thing you are going to get

people buying into a broader sense of western values and entightenedle

values when saying you have to speak English. Is this to save

money? No, we value the diversity, I have lived in Newham for 35 years,

why would I live in a place that is the most diverse place in the world.

When we are spending public money our task is to try to bring people

together. For that we spend a lot on English language classes, this

Government cut 40% of the funding for English language classes, we

think that is wrong. We want people to speak English to get jobs and

access the whole cultural offer that is here in London, the

greatest capital city in the world, you can access some of that.

Bringing people together is surely the task of a local Government. Why

does that actually bring people together, why does taking away

individual funding bring people together? No, there is lots of

other things we do. This is a few small things. We don't cut all

translation, if translation is needed for statutory services and

support we do that, of course we do. Then what we do is have a series of

events where people come together, last year and this year too we gave

everyone £250 if they want to run something with neighbours, street

parties, we had 1,000 last year with 180,000 people taking part.

That is getting to meet other people. The problem if you stay in

a community is that we know that people who work have broader

networks and it gives them better opportunities to access jobs, our

job is to support that with public funds. While recognising the value

of culture. Let as try to take a step back then, for me one of the

problems is there is a danger, certainly the way the media has

picked it up more broadly, not necessarily tonight. Is the

accusatory finger is pointed at immigrants as though they are the

problem, won't they integrate in, that is the way it is pick up. They

have to learn English. For me the greater crisis I think you

underestimate the crisis, the biggest problem for me is I don't

think in Britain we don't know what people should integrate to. We

define ourselves about what people aren't doing. We have to be honest

about the whole values system of what Britain stands for, of why

when you move into this country you buy in to. But there is the flag

and all of that? We have a few symbols. In America people would

move, they didn't always learn how to speak English, by the way, what

they identified with, millions of people of the American dream. Where

is the British dream today. There is none, so we point our finger at

them. We are not trying to say, that we look for tolerance and

respect. I'm a British Scot, we had somebody earlier today saying they

are English, of course we have given backgrounds, what --

backgrounds, when you ask communities they want jobs,

education for kids, safe streets. Every community wants the same

thing. That is what we want to provide while encouraging people to

meet other people that live beside them. Why has Newham gone from 33%

white British to 16.7%, is this a response to the marginalised white

British?. It is London, people moving into London, the East End is

always where people come. Interestingly we are seeing changes.

The Olympic largely held in our borough, we are beginning to see

changes you no one of our problems is we will have people moving in

and gentrifying we want to make sure that they can make a life. We

have to recognise there has been incredible damage done by

multiculturalism as a policy. I'm an open borders policy. You should

welcome this? There are parts of it, I'm not here to attack this, we are

having a broader discussion in a way. My problem is with

multiculturalism is that it has been devisive, it has said to

people don't come in here and be a human being but be ethnic. I agree

on that level, the danger is we end up blaming immigrants for the

problems of what was a British policy. I think that is damaging

and you have to be careful of that Robin. Thank you very much. The new

Iranian President has said his country is not trying to make a

nuclear bomb and never was. Speaking to US television,

President Rouhani said he had the full authority, sufficient

political latitude to resolve a stand-off with the west. There

seems to be this buzz about the interview tonight and the message

it conveys? There is a buzz, absolutely, the wider context,

political prisoners released yesterday. Some suggestions that

Iran might be about to liberalise restrictions on social media. The

President going to the UN General Assembly next week in New York. It

has been announced that President Holder of France will meet him

there. Also -- President Hollande of France will meet him there. And

remarks from the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggesting

this could be a time for leniency, and renouncing a claim that they

want WMDs, this is what he said. TRANSLATION: We do not believe in

nuclear weapons because of our beliefs, not for the sake of the US

or other countries. When we say that no country should possess

nuclear weapons, we ourselves are not definitely trying to possess

them. Is there a sense that Rouhani is

different? Well the problem is, for those who are sceptical the sense

of deja vu. Between 1997 and 2005, that pd was a liberal figure, he

was liberal on the nuclear issue and the democratisation issue, it

was liberal on the nuclear issue was seen at that time he was

gradually underlined by more hardline figures crucially the aia

Tola, and the ground was -- Ayatolla Khomenie, and he was

replaced by the last President. The new man has the backing of

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and he said that last night on NBC news.

TRANSLATION: In its nuclear programme this Government enters

with full power and has complete authority. I have given the nuclear

negotiations portfolio to the Foreign Ministry. The problem won't

be from our side. We have sufficient political latitude to

solve this problem. This is being seen as a more serious attempt to

negotiate. It has been taken seriously? It is being taken

seriously. The big question is will President Obama also meet him next

week in New York, there is a definite diplomatic opportunity

here. A sense that this new apparent willingness to deal should

be properly tested and that sanctions, economic sanctions, may

have given the Iranians a seriousness about this that was

lacking, that was not there under the President years ago, this time

they really want to do something to lessen the economic impact of

sanctions and they are prepared to deal on the nuclear question.

Those of you who stayed up long enough to see a shot of an empty

chair last night and went to bed none the wiser, let's just say this

one is for you. Imagine a world where the Internet connected not

just people but objects, where a tiny computer of found in

everything, from cars to fridge, md sins, even cattle. The potential

for gleaning information becomes phenomenal. It is call the interin

the of things. Who cares what it is called, it will -- internet of

things, who cares what it is called it will change lives forever.

The Internet has changed our world so profoundly it is hard to argue

with the idea that we are now living through an age as

transformative as extraordinary as the agricultural or Industrial

Revolution. Our revolution, computer revolution

has barely got started. Up to now we have had an internet largely

made up of people. It is people who post photographs or write e-mails

or do any of the other things we all do with our computer, but the

number of things on the Internet is going to be vast low bigger than

the number of people. When the things take over well our lives

will change completely. Today we are somewhere in the region of 10-

15 billion things connected to the interin the. They all range from

the traditional things such -- the Internet, they all range from

traditional things such as smartphones and laptops, they will

move to things we aren't familiar with being connected. Cattle for

one example, checking the well being of them out in the field,

through to trees that monitor the environment around them. Right away

through to connected cars. We estimate the number of things

connected to the Internet will grow to 50 billion devices by the year

2020. What is driving this is a tiny cheap sensor, and computers

linked via the Internet to vast cloud servers, the uses are pretty

limitless. Imagine your front door is on-line and someone turns up

unexpectedly from out of town, no problem, you can let them in.

Imagine a pot plant that tweets you to tell you it needs watering.

Imagine a coffee maker connect today the Internet that brews up

the perfect cup of coffee because it has sensed you walked out.

Sensors that know when you go out so turning the heating down and

lights out. One thing as simple as the asthma inhaler, very valuable

to the person using it, essentially a dumb device. Now the opportunity

to connect that to the Internet starts to bring together some

really interesting data set, and information about its use. This it

is a at the advice that is connected to the Internet, it has

GPS -- it is a device that is qebgted to the Internet, it is GPS,

and it allows people to understand why where and how they are using it.

It produces interesting data and information around how it is being

used. Potentially pointing to some environmental conditions in a

particular area. So how easy is it to put a thing on

the Internet of things. First we are going to need a thing, so how

about the Newsnight presenter's chair, I'm going to need to borrow

it for a few hours. I found a company near London's

silicone round about that says it can put up a chair on the Internet.

Hi Chad, how are you doing? How are you. We want our chair on the

Internet. OK, I think we can help you out with that. How would we go

about it, what do we need to do to our chair, it is a very nice chair,

but at the end of the day it is a chair. What do we do? Let's see,

the first thing we need is a pressure sensor, I think. So we

have got a pressure pad here, basically it allows you to detect

are you on it or are you not? A bit like a whoop pee cushion, the

presenters are used to that. We are able to take it to this sensor and

application board. This sensor says someone is on me or not. We have a

USP port to put power in to, we have a spot for the little board.

What is on this little thing here is actually the processor, it is a

whole Wi-Fi connection defies. So the normal Wi-Fi you connect your

whole Wi-Fi connection defies. So phone or computer in to, this will

allow you to connect into it as well. That, the size of a postage

stamp is a computer? Exactly. A computer capable of connecting to

the Internet? Absolutely. That just slots in there. So we tie this in,

boom, it is connected in, as soon as it is done it is connected to

Wi-Fi and the interin the. Chad Jones is CEO of a company that

helps product designers get stuff on-line. When it is finished our

presenters chair will be able to tell when somebody stand up or sit

down and tell the world via Twitter. By the Internet connecting the

chair it seems mundane, sit down, stand up, it tells you sat down and

stood up for how long. If you start thinking about that from a

healthcare perspective, what if we put that inside a granny's bed,

inside her home. Imagine if we can look into that home and see is she

in bed, when is she in bed, how long is she in bed for, if she's

not in bed where is she and what's she doing. If she's 2.00 and out of

bed for an hour-and-a-half there might be a problem. You need to

understand that. One of the constraints to the spread of the

internet of things is power. Batteries need either charging or

changing. But, research from the University of washing has proved

the feasiblilty of a technology called ambient back scater. That is

drawing the tiny amounts of power needed to run devices from

surrounding radio, TV or Wi-Fi significantle thats. It means that

you could bury these sensor into wall, into into clothe, in short,

into anything. It seems there is no way of avoiding this technology,

our homes will be joining the Internet of things whether we like

it or not. Smart energy metres are rolled out from 2015, these have

the ability to provide the most extraordinary data of our energy

use, right down toe theed models of devices we are using. -- right down

to the model of devices we are using? Privacy is a big issue, do

you know what your telephone or smart metre is transmitting back. A

great point of realised in Germany, where the company behind the smart

metre were able to determine, not only what devices were being run in

the consumers home, but also what films they were watching. What

films they were watching on their television? Absolutely. In man

cases consumers are blind to it, they look at the -- in many cases

consumers are blind to it, they don't look at the features of being

connected to the Internet. The Government says they would have to

consent to giving up smart metre data, but they wouldn't be

consulted before the police or Intelligence Services got their

hands on it. Indeed the former director of the CIA says this kind

of data will revolutionise the trade craft of spying. In the

future, it seems, your dishwasher will be working for the CIA. The

opportunities for terrorists and criminals will clearly expand. In

the 2009 American drama, Homeland, the US Vice President is

assassinated when his internet connected pacemaker is hacked. It

assassinated when his internet seems fiction is becoming reality.

In 2011 the New Zealand security expert and hacker, Barnaby Jack

showed how an insulin pump could be hacked and deliver a fatal dose. He

was due to appear at a Conference Talking about how a pacemaker could

be hacked when he mysteriously dyed. Medical manufacturers have been

told to beef up their security. Other areas are vulnerable too. The

suspicion is that internet- connected prison doors in Florida

were opened by an outside hacker. And on a more mundane level, we

have seen an internet connected baby monitor hacked as well. We

have this consuspect called the attack sur as if, in terms of what

are the number of system -- attack surface, in terms of what are the

number of systems you can attack. With more data the attack surface

is getting bigger and wider. For the cybercriminal out there, it

really does potentially become a field day. The Internet of things

is already here and will evently dwarf the Internet of people. We

will all need to think about security and privacy, but one

option we don't have is stopping all of this. Some believe we are

option we don't have is stopping now entering a new phase in the

evolution of our planet, when the Internet take its place as another

life form. Sleep well. Thanks for that. Here is the chair.

The Internet-connected chair, question. We have it patched into a

Twitter feed, Newsnight chair, if you want to have a seat we will see

if this thing work, we have the Twitter feed on the tablet and if I

refresh is it. Yes it says the Newsnight presenter has sat down at

23:14:05 in the Internet chair. If you stand up we will refresh it

again. There it is. The Newsnight presenter has stood up after

sitting for ten seconds in the Internet-connected chair. It

doesn't direct message does it? Not that I'm aware. Fascinating it is,

more widely? This in itself doesn't have that many uses, you could

perhaps have a game of musical chairs with hundreds of

participants in lots of different countries, asupering you don't want

to do that. We are talk -- assuming you don't want to do that. We are

talking about connecting with our environment, tiny little sensors

you could put them on pets and cow, it could revolutionise elderly care,

as explained in the film. It could allow people to stay in homes for a

lot longer. It will put far more data out there. One of the excite

things is being able to cross reference lots of different data

set and draw non-intuitive comparisons between those. Pretty

invasive? That kind of data will be common place about lots of

different aspect of our lives. What temperature our therplgs statistic

is, whether we have -- thermostat is, whether we have left the house.

If we want to take our privacy seriously we have to guard all that.

Away from sedentary matters, the fastest man in the world took an

awfully long time to arrive. He says he doesn't do anything quickly,

except run. I was given four-and-a- half minutes to talk to him, long

enough for the sprinter to have run the 100ms 28 times. We packed a lot

in, including flash photography. You are a man of God, what do you

think in the ten seconds before the race starts? For me it is focusing,

ten seconds my start is all about taking deep breath, relaxing and

trying to clear my mind as much as possible. You have to listen to

that gun. If you don't you will be left in the blocks like I am a lot

of times. Sow the start is the worst bit? It is the worst bit of

my race. I work on it every day, sometimes you hit it, sometimes you

don't. A number of athletes from the Jamaican team have tested

positive for banned substance, is that a particular problem there, or

is the list too long? For me I'm an individual, I have to be vigilent

and be very careful in what put in my body, and focus on what I can do.

I can't talk about other athletes, they are also individuals, I have

to do what I have to do. Would it help Jamaica and the team if there

was more regular testing from the authorities there? I always work on

testing, and say if they want to test me every day come and do it.

Every athlete will be OK if they test for regularly. Do you think

test testing positive is a life- time ban? That is not my area. Your

gut feeling? As an athlete there are rules in everything you do, in

life, in every different sport, for me that is the whole point, if you

have rules, I don't make them I abide by them. He He takes the gold

medal again. When you finally start to consider retirement, and it is a

long way off. Would it be football? Yeah, something I want to try, when

I sit and watch football I always say I can do this, you never know,

I want it try when I retire to see if it would be possible. We will

see what happens, I'm a big Manchester United fan and hopefully

I can get a spot on. Have they approached you? When Alex Ferguson

was in charge he said I could come and train whenever I want. I never

got the opportunity. When I meet David Moyes hopefully I will get

opportunity to train with them. You could imagine yourself playing for

Manchester United? Definite low. You skroib yourself as a Definitely.

You describe yourself as a at the You skroib yourself as a Definitely.

no mam number and a legend. I look at your confidence and I think and

there must be some area of your life where the confidence is not

there. What puts you in a cold sweat? Nobody, I'm so laid back

about everything really. I'm very sweat? Nobody, I'm so laid back

competitive, I'm always confident in whatever I do, one thing you

learn, if you go into anything doubting yourself it doesn't make

sense, you do it. There is nothing you do slowly or without

competitiveness? I do everything slow, except running.

The Newsnight chair has now almost 500 follower, before we go, we hail

the visionary Hiroshima Yamochi who died today. You have not heard of

him but you have probably played him and your children still do. We

leave but the seven ages of Mario.