Season 2
6 episodes · Sep 12, 2024
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S2E1Super Intelligence
Sep 12, 202424mArtificial 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?
S2E2Animal Communication
Sep 19, 202424mBioacoustics 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?
S2E3Quantum Computing
Sep 26, 202424mWith 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?
S2E4Water
Oct 3, 202424mOur 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?
S2E5Pain
Oct 10, 202424mPain 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.
S2E6Next Billion
Oct 17, 202424mSoon, 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?