In this week’s on-air chat Hong Kong radio 3’s James Ross and I chat about all things good, positive and encouraging in a year that for most of us we’d otherwise like to forget.

It was the first year that electric vehicles outsold diesel cars in Europe – a sign of what’s to come worldwide, as we respond both to the environmental and social desire for less emissions and the practicality that around the world car manufacturers are phasing out diesel and soon petrol car production.

It was also the year in which BCI Brain Computer Interfaces took another leap forward connecting a human brain wirelessly to a computer and despite its Frankenstein overtones imagine what joy that technology might bring to people who are unbale to have their bodies respond to the signals the mind puts out.

We also chatted about United Airlines first 100% flight using sustainable fuel made from sugar, water and corn and continuing the aviation theme the first helicopter / drones flight on Mars.

Have a listen now to why these and other 2021 inventions / innovations made what was otherwise not such a great year, at least a good year.