Podcasts by Tomorrow’s World
Your big questions about the future answered. How science will influence and change our lives. Britt Wray and Ellie Cosgrave present a fortnightly investigation of a hot science topic in about 30 minutes. The Tomorrow's World podcast will begin a second run of episodes in early 2018.
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Podcast on the topic Wissenschaft
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Meet the Personal Data Superheroes - GDPR and beyond from 2018-05-24T17:00
Britt Wray and Ellie Cosgrave take a deep dive into our data.
They discuss the implication of personal data rights in everything from city planning to medicine to human rights. You’ll he...
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Is This the Real Life? from 2018-03-01T17:00
Look around you. It’s all there, right? It’s real, it’s tangible, it’s the physical world. But, what if it’s not?
In the final episode of the series, Britt and Ellie discover the ideas o...
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Do We Need a New Internet? from 2018-02-15T06:00
All around the world, governments are increasingly looking at control of the internet; whether it’s to regulate content, hide or ban content or increase ownership of your data.
Is this th...
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Who Wants to Live Forever? from 2018-02-01T06:00
In the sixth episode, entitled Dorothy, Britt and Ellie imagine a world that is completely free from disease and look at the current technology that is paving a way to that world. They investiga...
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Electric Sheep from 2017-11-09T06:00
Meet Mary. She’s sentient and she’s conscious, just like us.
The difference? She’s an Artificial Intelligence.
Britt and Ellie want to know what the future holds for AI, and so ...
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Hope Floats from 2017-10-26T05:00
Will the cities we live in become uninhabitable due to climate change, overpopulation and other factors that lie in our future? If so, should we be investing in floating cities now to solve t...
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Enter the Wizard from 2017-10-12T05:01
In the second episode of Tomorrow’s World, Britt and Ellie investigate the more practical applications of brain-machine interfacing. They meet the “wizards” sharing their hats. What does it mean...
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The Wizard's Hat from 2017-10-12T05:00
Britt Wray and Ellie Cosgrave ask how can we meld machinery and our minds? Is it possible to create seamless communication between human brains and computers?
Inventors and scientists, inc...
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