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Forging the Future
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.
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Episode 1
Disease-Free World: The Microbiome
Wed, Aug 17, 2022
To create a disease-free world, scientists are pushing the envelope in every conceivable corner. This episode features the most cutting-edge scientists out there-including Nobel-prize winners-who are harnessing the power of what's called "The Microbiome." The Microbiome is the full array of the trillions of microorganisms that live in or on the human body, which help it function. By understanding the Microbiome as a kind of ecosystem, scientists are using innovative techniques to discern the microbes' various functions in the body as a whole. Incredibly, through revealing the function of one particular micro-organism, one scientist has been able to cure Stomach Cancer. But other scientists armed with this knowledge are attempting the unthinkable: namely, to increase the presence of microbes across the body by intentionally infecting people with more infectious agents. The reason? Increasing microbial diversity in the body boosts its immunity, and helps people fight disease from the inside out. Radical methods like these are leading to breakthrough remedies, from the erasure of life-threatening infections like C. Difficile, to ending Asthma and Obesity. Innovative research like this will inform the biotechnologies of the future, and in turn create a disease-free world.
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