Visions of the Future (3 Parts)

Synopsis: A series of three programmes looking at how key technology will transform life throughout the 21st century, based on the book by Michio Kaku.The programmes discuss not just the likely changes that technology will bring, but their implications across all aspects of our lives. Michio Kaku believes we are on the verge of a profound new scientific era - we are reaching the end of the Age of Discovery and beginning a new age - the Age of Mastery. We will become the active choreographers of
nature.

The series features interviews with the world’s leading scientists, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) pioneers Marvin Minsky and Rodney Brooks, geneticist Francis
Collins, immunologist Anthony Fauci, neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, and transhumanists, such as Ray Kurzweil and Nick Bostrum.
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Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2008
Year of production: 2007
Notes: Broadcast on BBC4 in 3 weekly parts, beginning 5/11/2007
Subjects: Technology
Keywords: technological innovation

Title: Intelligence: The Computer Revolution
Synopsis: Intelligence is set to become as ubiquitous as electricity. We’ll live in a fairy tale world: we will talk to everything and it will respond.
Duration: 60 mins
Title: Life: The Biomolecular Revolution
Synopsis: We already have the entire human genome mapped. We could eradicate most major diseases and prolong life by decades
Duration: 60 mins
Title: Matter: The Quantum Revolution
Synopsis: This is the most profound revolution to occur. Michio
argues that we are entering a world where we will be
able to manipulate and create matter itself. Teleportation
and invisibility cloaks might become a reality.
But does this development of technology also offer a
warning? As Michio says ‘We will have the power to
animate the inanimate, the power to create life itself.
We will have the power of Gods. But will we also have
the wisdom of Solomon?'
Duration: 60 mins

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