The Future with Hannah Fry

Season 2

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6 episodes · First aired 2024-09-12

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S2 E124 min

Super Intelligence

Artificial 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?

TMDB 7.0/10 from 1 votes

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S2 E224 min

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?

TMDB 8.0/10 from 1 votes

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S2 E324 min

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?

TMDB 9.0/10 from 1 votes

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S2 E424 min

Water

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?

TMDB 8.0/10 from 1 votes

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S2 E524 min

Pain

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.

TMDB 7.0/10 from 1 votes

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S2 E624 min

Next Billion

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?

TMDB 8.0/10 from 1 votes