Forging the Future

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Filmed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and mastered in 4K, this six-part series focuses on the most exciting disciplines in popular science today. Each episode features a deep dive into: Artificial Intelligence, Achieving Immortality, Living Off the Earth, Genetic Engineering, Cyborg Technology, and creating a Disease-Free World with the Human Microbiome. By showing how the most cutting-edge technologies work across these fields, the series reveals the real-world impact they will have, and the hopeful futures they will create-and which this series dramatically reveals-for humanity and the planet. Through immersive, "you are there" filmmaking, each show presents the most esteemed technologists and scientists in action at the world's most advanced facilities-including those at elite institutions like Harvard University, MIT, Columbia University. To overcome some of our greatest challenges, they are using gene-editing technologies to fight life-threatening genetic disorders, using Artificial Intelligence to develop robotic consciousness, creating outside-the-box treatments that can reverse aging, or even using Computer-Assisted Telepathy that gives a person control of another person's body. Forging the Future offers unique, first-person perspectives from some of the most respected scientists today, as they help to create a better future for everyone.