The Secret Genius of Modern Life
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- Episode
- Food delivery App
- Broadcast Info
- 2023 (59 mins)
- Description
- Did you know that submarine warfare is responsible for your takeaway making it to the right address? In this episode of The Secret Genius Of Modern Life, Hannah Fry tucks into the tech behind food delivery apps like Deliveroo and Just Eat which are now used by 24 million of us in the UK. Hannah meets the R&D team behind food delivery titan Deliveroo, finds out how pensioners ordering Greggs revolutionised food delivery and how pizza made us fall in love with the internet in the 1990’s.
- Genre
- Culture; Technology
How to cite this record
The Open University, "The Secret Genius of Modern Life". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/243643 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)