Photographs and webcast from Future Technologies

Watch the webcast with Tim Berners-Lee, Stephen Fry, Wendy Hall, Jim Haseloff and Bill Thompson of our Future Technologies event.

In the past 25 years our use of technology has increased at an unprecedented rate, affecting our way of life and how we function in society. What's next? Are we set to see more inventions that change the image of technology and the culture we live in? How will these developments affect and influence the future of society?

In front of a packed audience in Queen Elizabeth Hall and hundreds of live viewers online, our expert panel gave their views and insights into their own use of technology and their hopes for the future.

The panel includes:

• Sir Tim Berners-Lee FRS , inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Stephen Fry, writer, broadcaster and technophile
• Professor Dame Wendy Hall FRS , leading computer scientist at University of Southampton
• Dr Jim Haseloff, synthetic biologist from University of Cambridge
• Bill Thompson, technology critic and commentator on digital culture.

Watch the webcast

The event was webcast live and is now available to view on demand from royalsociety.tv. Two versions are available:

• Large-size play-on-demand video webcast (launches in a new window)
• Medium-size play-on-demand video webcast (launches in a new window)

Please note that the player requires Flash and Javascript - see the royalsociety.tv technical requirements and help for more information.

Read the Twitter conversation

Audience members watching live online and in Queen Elizabeth Hall were invited to use Twitter to tweet their thoughts, comments and opinions about the event using the hashtag #SFFuture. You can read the (unedited) transcript of the #SFFuture discussion, courtesy of WTHashtag.

See the sketchnotes

Audience member Eva Lottchen drew a 'sketchnote' of the event, which you can view on her Flickr account.

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