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Next Billion

Talk Show

TV-PG

24

Oct 16, 2024

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?

Season 2, 6 episodes

Super Intelligence,

Artificial intelligence has begun to exhibit early signs of agency. Are we on a path to superintelligence? Self destruction? Or is the potential promise and threat of AI being overblown?

Animal Communication,

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?

Quantum Computing,

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?

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?

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.

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?

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The Future With Hannah Fry

News & Information

TV-PG

2

24

The Future With Hannah Fry will bring subjects into sharper focus through interviews and explainers as well as field visits with scientific seers and technology leaders in facilities around the world.

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