Year Million
YEAR MILLION explores what it will be like to be human 1 million years from now. Through illustrative, dramatic storytelling, YEAR MILLION paints a vision of humanity through the lens of a typical future American family, which includes a daughter who is part AI. The series propels us into an odyssey of unfathomable human choices and predicts how every aspect of technology may affect our lives.
- 2017-2017
- 1 season
- National Geographic Channel
- Documentary, Drama, Science Fiction
YEAR MILLION explores what it will be like to be human 1 million years from now. Through illustrative, dramatic storytelling, YEAR MILLION paints a vision of humanity through the lens of a typical future American family, which includes a daughter who is part AI. The series propels us into an odyssey of unfathomable human choices and predicts how every aspect of technology may affect our lives.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2017
Episode 1
Homo Sapien 2.0
Mon, May 15, 2017 47 mins
Artificial intelligence - its merits and dangers - is explored as an inevitable future.
Episode 2
Never Say Die
Mon, May 22, 2017 47 mins
Episode 3
Dude, Where's My Body?
Wed, May 31, 2017 47 mins
Advances in graphics and computing power have given rise to a renaissance in virtual technologies, offering people profound experiences via online personas. Will reality become a pale shadow of the imaginative worlds we've created? What do we risk losing?
Episode 4
Mind Meld
Wed, Jun 7, 2017 47 mins
Has constant connectivity affected privacy? In the deep future, will we become telepathic? And will we communicate with civilizations beyond Earth?
Episode 5
Energy Beyond Earth
Wed, Jun 14, 2017 47 mins
Over consumption of energy and resources has led us to a breaking point where we will either have to engineer our way around our problems or look to other planets to inhabit through terraforming, which could disrupt those ecosystems. Is this human-centric view of the universe the right approach? And is it possible there are alien civilizations that have reached this similar inflection point?
Episode 6
Beyond the Cosmos
Wed, Jun 21, 2017 47 mins
When will we conquer the final obstacle - space travel, and how will it change us as a species.
