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Tomorrow’s World

Your big questions about the future answered. How science will influence and change our lives.

Radio,9 episodes

Episodes

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The Wizard's Hat
Britt and Ellie experience the cutting-edge technology making mind-melding a reality.
12 Oct 2017,33 mins,
Enter the Wizard
What does it mean to “download our brains”, and will we morph our own intellect with AI?
12 Oct 2017,34 mins
Hope Floats
Could floating cities solve the problems raised by climate change and overpopulation?
26 Oct 2017,59 mins
Electric Sheep
What does the future hold for AI? Britt and Ellie follow Mary's story to find out...
09 Nov 2017,61 mins
Outbreak!
Do more aggressive and unknown outbreaks lie in our future, and how can we contain them?
23 Nov 2017,54 mins
Who Wants to Live Forever?
Has the first person to live to 1,000-years-old already been born?
01 Feb 2018,60 mins
Do We Need a New Internet?
Britt and Ellie explore what the internet of the future could (or should) look like.
15 Feb 2018,61 mins
Is This the Real Life?
Could the world around us be a simulated reality?
02 Mar 2018,46 mins
Meet the Personal Data Superheroes - GDPR and beyond
Britt Wray and Ellie Cosgrave take a deep dive into our data.
25 May 2018,55 mins