Does the digital world fall short of what it initially promised?

So-called ‘organoids’, miniature body parts, help to meet the ever increasing demand for transplant organs and supplement human donations. Future Tense presents new organ transplant technology research.

A new field of research called Plant Neurobiology states that plants are intelligent - in their own way.

Neil Selwyn is a digital technology researcher who argues for a more nuanced discussion around the role of technology in the classroom.

Our obsession with rating everything from products to meals and performance has a huge economic impact. But what are the limits? In China, they’ve begun implementing a ‘social credit system’.

City living is increasingly a vertical experience. The more our major urban centres expand, the more they also seem to stretch into the sky.

In this episode we get an update on usage trends for digital devices; speak about online privacy and the law; and find out about the online art project that went from celebration to critique.

On the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen they’ve built a vast concrete bunker - a huge seed vault buried deep into the permafrost and designed to help protect the genetic diversity of our plants and crops.

They infuriate some and delight others, but whether you like them or not, Emoji are certainly getting harder to ignore.

The technological progress of flight has been pretty amazing.