Vision of the Future

Vision of the Future For nearly all of his 86 years, architect Jacque Fresco has been designing cities of the future. Fresco’s structures all derived from a simple form that 1) fascinated him as a b

British Vision Issue 77, 法国总统离婚记

Transport strikes have brought France to a standstill; the Rugby World Cup hopes have been dashed in the capital; the President and his wife have divorced by mutual consent. Not a good week for the French leader Nicolas Sarkozy. After just five mont

British Vision Issue 29 空客A380英伦首航

Despite its enormous size the Airbus A380 still manages to look graceful. The double-decker plane which can carry more than 550 passengers dwarfs all other commercial aircraft. Later today a prototype will land for the first time in the UK. En route

British Vision Issue 26 超级曼联之书

Welcome back, now it looks more like it should be a table than on one, more like a piece of furniture than an addition to a bookshelf. The latest craze for bigger, better, more expensive books than ever reaches its peak, will reach its peak in Septem

British Vision Issue 57 我们去图书馆做什么？

Now, should a library be a quiet place to read a book or a lively centre where you can hang out and drink coffee? And can it be both? Author Tracy Chevalier who is also chairman of the Society of Authors, told More4 News she is worried library is sac

British Vision Issue 46 救救我们的邮局

Downing Street will receive a special delivery from postmasters this afternoon, the country's biggest ever petition in modern times. Four million people have backed a campaign, urging the government to save Britain's post offices. More than four thou

British Vision Issue 38 热浪席卷英伦三岛

Record temperatures and the hottest day of the year so far. Parts of Britain have outstripped temperatures in Bermuda and Rio today. Council gritters have been out treating roads to stop them melting. Health warnings have been issued for the elderly

British Vision Issue 47 麦当娜收养非洲遗孤

If he kept his son in the village, he would have buried him, so says Madonna, defending her decision to adopt a baby from Malawi. The pop star ended her silence today with the soft sofa option, an interview on the Oprah Winfrey show. Speaking in a li

British Vision Issue 50 肥胖导致癌症

The increase in the obesity could lead to as many as 1500 more cancers a year in Britain by the year 2010. Cancer Research UK which carried out the survey claims that too few people are aware of the link between excess weight and the risk of developi

British Vision Issue 54 毕业等于失业？

Now China's sizzling(red-hot) economy is growing at its fastest rate in a decade. This year 5 million young people will graduate from the country's universities, with the potential to boost China's economy still further. But the government estimates

British Vision Issue 56 回忆：当年的灾难

The victims of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster (are) being remembered to the service in Dover. Survivors and relatives of those who died sang hymn s and read eulogies at the church service. Twenty years ago, 193 people died when the Herald of Free Enter

British Vision Issue 60 医疗事故愈演愈烈

Now you'd think that from a health point of view, lying in a hospital was probably the safest place to be, but More4 News and Channel4 News Online have discovered the number of deaths in hospitals due to medical errors have doubled in the last 2 year

【British Vision】Issue 63 Google关于用户隐私保护问题

Channel 4 News has learnt that Google could be forced to carry a cigarette-box style warning about privacy on its websites. The Internet search giant has amassed a massive database of personal information about its users, including what sites we visi

British Vision Issue 58 把香烟禁到底

Smoking in pubs and bars in Wales is now illegal after the ban on smoking in enclosed public places came into force this morning. Wales is the second part of the UK to introduce the ban and anyone breaking the law faces a hefty fine, well, our report

British Vision Issue 67, 孤独症患者呼吁自身权力

Now it's not a disability but a way of life. That's how some people with autism are challenging the conventional view. As new research suggests as many as one in fifty-eight children may have the condition. Now autistic people are using the Internet

British Vision Issue 68, 21岁才能喝酒？

...city of London. There is public support for a Chief Constable's call to raise the legal age for drinking alcohol from 18 to 21, but continued opposition to forcing up the price by raising tax levels. Those are the main findings of a poll conducte

British Vision Issue 69, 寻找东方的亚特兰蒂斯

Cut your reporting. Now a lost city under the sea--for centuries the stuff of myth--now, possibly, a reality. An Oceanographer in Japan says he is convinced he's found evidence of an ancient civilization that must have slipped into the ocean thousan

British Vision Issue 70, 赌博广告惊现电视台

From today adverts promoting gambling will be allowed on British Television screens, ads for arcades, bingo halls, casinos and bookmakers can be shown after the 9 p. m watershed for the first time. Thanks to provisions in the 2005 Gambling Act only

British Vision Issue 83, 十八岁黑客入侵银行帐户

Wed believe to be literally an international cyber crime gang that stole millions of pounds from peoples bank accounts. But now a 18 year old whos known by the alias Akill or Akill has been questioned in New Zealand part of net being led a crack dow

British Vision Issue 32 我爱世界杯

Here we go again. 4 years of waiting are over, as the first of 64 matches that make up this tournament gets underway. 161 goals were scored during the last World Cup. It took the German team just a few minutes to notch up the first of this year's tal