The Future Audio & Video

What, if anything, can be learned by studying history? This is the question Will and Ariel Durant...

Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.

All great truths begin as blasphemy....

Speaking at a TED Salon in London, economist Martin Jacques asks: How do we in the West make sense of China and its phenomenal rise?

Future Shock is a 1972 American short documentary film directed by Alex Grasshoff and narrated by Orson Welles. It was screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition. It is based on the book of the same name.

When scholars write the history of the world 20 years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004", what will they say was the most crucial development?

Explore the world of cloning, protein folding, genome mapping, and more with the most important researchers in the field. Hosted by Marc Pelletier and Leo Laporte. Part of the TWiT.tv podcast network. Released every Wednesday.

The world's best known writer of science fiction, Sir Arthur C Clarke was the first to propose satellite communications in 1945.

This series looks at the Oxford Martin School's academics and how their research is making a difference to our global future.

As technology rapidly progresses, some proponents of artificial intelligence believe that it will help solve complex social challenges and offer immortality via virtual humans.