There's a consensus among scientists that within 3 or 4 decades, their work in genetics, AI, bionics, neuroscience, physics, space travel and virtual reality will transform the fundamental nature of human beings. These changes will be thrilling, confusing and painful, with everything to gain or lose. Futurity explores this remarkable canvas through a small group of characters living through the 21st century as both victims and beneficiaries of these advances. Their resonant stories are based on the real science and tech of right now, extrapolated forward by eminent scientists and thinkers doing ground-breaking work around the world.
This video details how Science becomes Story, demonstrating how our choices could play out, for better or for worse, in our remarkable future.
Each Episode has its own page with a Story/Character Synopsis, a video on the science that inspires the narrative, everyday cultural and tech advances for that year and links to relevant articles.
for a full Episode Page, click on the image or use the menus at the top & bottom of each page
1: SELFIE 2026
When it’s too late for you, can your clone carry on? Can you make it better than you? Do you really want to?
2: ARTIFICE RISING 2029
As our bodies merge with technology, what happens to identity?
3: GOING MARTIAN 2020-2031
What kind of person leaves their family and planet for a one-way ticket to Mars?
4: MARGINALS 2034
As climate change digs in and resources dwindle, will survival favor only the rich? Will there be class war?
5: ALTERED 2040
As virtual reality, AI and human augmentation mature, what will it make of us?
6: POSTHUMAN 2040-2045
Will only some of us evolve? And into what? What about the rest of us?
Season 2 PREVIEW
When we crack the codes of Consciousness, Death and The Nature of Reality, what will THAT be like?
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