Season 1

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  8.6/1012 votes

  Seeing the Future

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/9/2023

  James connects the dots between Napoleon’s toothpick and the Nielsen TV ratings to see how scientists have built the quantum computer – a data-processing machine so powerful that it can predict the future.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.6/109 votes

  The End of Scarcity

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/9/2023

  James jumps in the sensory deprivation tank with a man who took LSD with dolphins to discover how syphilis in the French aristocracy kicked off a journey to the nanofabricator–a machine that can build anything you wish for, molecule by molecule, for free. What will that mean for the value of things?

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.4/1010 votes

  In the Net

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/2023

  James opens a cabinet of curiosities to discover how the French Revolution, wallpaper, and NORAD brought about the rise of big data – and a world where humans finally merge with the internet.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.4/1010 votes

  None of This is Real

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/9/2023

  Dog pee, the Polaroid camera, and rocket fuel lead us to a future where AI is indistinguishable from human intelligence. If we can’t tell machines and people apart, what will that mean for humanity?

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  9.0/107 votes

  Designer Genes

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/2023

  A cup of coffee in the 18th century takes James to the pioneering woman who discovered the structure of DNA, and a future with genetically engineered people. Will we want to be Super-Human?

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  Limitless Energy

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2023

  How did a journey that began thousands of years ago with the Inca and the potato, connect to a mad scientist in a castle, and German beer, then bring us to the brink of a future with clean, limitless energy? And what will that future mean for humanity?

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown