The Future Audio & Video

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.

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

The eminent historian and strategist reflects on how China's past illuminates its 21st-century trajectory, drawing on 40 years of intimate acquaintance with the country and its leaders.....

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.

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

From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions.

From her unique insider's perspective—as someone familiar with this world and the next—America's leading psychic tells us what to expect and how to prepare.

In his new book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Harari examines what might happen to the world when these old myths are coupled with new godlike technologies such as artificial intelligence and genetic engineering.

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?

In this fully revised and updated edition of his bestseller, "The Road Ahead", Bill Gates explains why the Internet is revolutionizing not just Microsoft but everything else, too--and at a faster pace than even he had anticipated.