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Christian is a long-term supporter of Thinking Digital, having attended year on year, spoke on stage, and now running fantastic workshops as part of our annual conference.
This interview was recorded before our tenth-anniversary event in 2017.
Christian Payne is a Creative Technologist: an elusive job description that at any moment can include photographer, writer, documentarian and story-teller. Never content to simply tell a tale, Christian consults and trains others on how best to find their own voices and which tried, tested and emerging technologies are available to amplify them.
His work takes him to every corner of the globe, often with news agencies, occasionally just ahead of them, using a unique and diverse skill-set to highlight the plight of refugees, put politicians on the spot and always find the story behind the headline.
Christian brain dumps into a weekly newsletter as well as at @Documentally on Twitter.
Christian is a long-term supporter of Thinking Digital, having attended year on year, spoke on stage, and now running fantastic workshops as part of our annual conference.
This interview was recorded before our tenth-anniversary event in 2017.
Christian Payne is a Creative Technologist: an elusive job description that at any moment can include photographer, writer, documentarian and story-teller. Never content to simply tell a tale, Christian consults and trains others on how best to find their own voices and which tried, tested and emerging technologies are available to amplify them.
His work takes him to every corner of the globe, often with news agencies, occasionally just ahead of them, using a unique and diverse skill-set to highlight the plight of refugees, put politicians on the spot and always find the story behind the headline.
Christian brain dumps into a weekly newsletter as well as at @Documentally on Twitter.







![The Scientific Argument Against Elon Musks VR Simulation Hypothesis | Andrew Pontzen
Professor Andrew Pontzen introduces how computer simulations have revolutionised our understanding of the universe, delivering astounding insights into the origin of galaxies, stars, black holes, planets and life.
Drawing on themes in his non-specialist book The Universe in a Box, published in June to critical acclaim, he looks at the way that simulations are blurring traditional distinctions between theory and experiment, and allowing humanity to collaborate on a new digital canvas to sketch our cosmic past, present and future.
And finally, he addresses the controversial idea that reality may itself be a simulation conducted by some far-advanced super-civilization.
Andrew Pontzen is a professor of cosmology at University College London.
He has written for the New Scientist, BBC Sky at Night and BBC Science Focus; lectured at the Royal Institution; appeared on BBC, Amazon Prime and Discovery Channel documentaries; and contributed to BBC Radio 4 programmes including Inside Science and The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry.
Computer simulations are a major part of his research which spans cosmology, physics and computation. His first book, The Universe in a Box is due to be published in June.
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