Episode list

Artificial intelligence - its merits and dangers - is explored as an inevitable future.

Advances in graphics and computing power have given rise to a renaissance in virtual technologies, offering people profound experiences via online personas. Will reality become a pale shadow of the imaginative worlds we've created? What do we risk losing?

Has constant connectivity affected privacy? In the deep future, will we become telepathic? And will we communicate with civilizations beyond Earth?

Over consumption of energy and resources has led us to a breaking point where we will either have to engineer our way around our problems or look to other planets to inhabit through terraforming, which could disrupt those ecosystems. Is this human-centric view of the universe the right approach? And is it possible there are alien civilizations that have reached this similar inflection point?

When will we conquer the final obstacle - space travel, and how will it change us as a species.