Conversations About The End Of Time

Palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould on dating the Creation, evolutionary 'deep time' and the need for ecological ethics on a human scale.Novelist, medievalist and Web-fanatic Umberto Exo on the brave new world of cyberspace, and its likely impact on memory, cultural continuity and access to knowledge.Catholic historian Jean Delumeau on how the Western imagination has always been haunted by the ideas of the Apocalypse.Screen writer Jean-Claude Carriere on 'the art of slowness' and attitudes towards time in non-Western cultures.