About this season
Do you want to know what your future holds? A life beyond 150 years old? A world where computers can read our emotions? A planet transformed by unlimited clean energy? Mathematician Hannah Fry will explore these questions and more.
Episodes (6)
1. Super Intelligence
7.0Aired 12 September 2024 • 24 min
Artificial intelligence has begun to exhibit early signs of agency. Are we on a path to super intelligence? Self destruction? Or is the potential promise and threat of AI being overblown?
2. Animal Communication
8.0Aired 19 September 2024 • 24 min
Bioacoustics technology and AI are revealing how animals communicate, and may soon allow us to talk to them ourselves. What can we learn from wildlife? And should we be talking to the animals at all?
3. Quantum Computing
9.0Aired 26 September 2024 • 24 min
With the promise of unimaginable computing power, a global race for quantum supremacy is raging. Who will be first to harness this new technological force, and what will they do with it?
4. Water
8.0Aired 3 October 2024 • 24 min
Our survival depends on water, yet global reserves are rapidly shrinking. It's now replaced oil as the most likely cause of global conflict. Can technology help secure humanity's future water needs?
5. Pain
7.0Aired 10 October 2024 • 24 min
Pain is a fact of life. For some, it is excruciating and inescapable. But amid the continuing fallout of the opioid crisis, new technologies are being developed to limit and even eliminate pain.
6. Next Billion
8.0Aired 17 October 2024 • 24 min
Soon, another billion people will be online, mostly from developing nations. How will these new users embrace this technology to transform their lives, and what will it mean for the rest of the world?