It’s growing increasingly difficult to know where the truth lies. We’ve gotten very good at our electronic fakery - from Photoshop and ‘Deep-Fakes’ to synthetic audio of former U.S. President Barack Obama so accurate it’s indistinguishable...

What stories should we tell ourselves (and our kids) to prepare them for the next billion seconds? We end Series One with this extended episode bringing contributors from this season, Genevieve Bell, Andy Polaine and John Allsopp together...

Driving a car, folding a towel, cleaning the dinner table - these very human tasks have proven hard to teach to robots. So, how much can we expect from this rise of the Robots? Recorded at robotics pioneer Ken Goldberg's home in San...

Games and play expert Eric Zimmerman explains how play has become an X-Ray, giving us the opportunity to have 'a peek beneath the bonnet' of so much of our world. Play and games are the probes we're using to explore - ourselves,...

Working with money in the digital world has long been a game of catch-up. Paypal and using your credit card online have become the new ways we spend traditional money in an online world. However, with the rise of Bitcoin and a multitude...

When the internet was born it was free and was to stay free for everyone who wanted to access it. So, to pay for it, a few little ads would be needed. Our guest, media expert Rob Tercek, who was there at the beginning, couldn't have...

The latest in A.I. | For thousands of years, amateurs and professionals alike have dedicated themselves to the ancient Chinese board game Go. This week, Google's artificial intelligence group, DeepMind, unveiled a program so smart,...

At the halfway point in series one, we reconnect with our first guest, John Allsopp to breakdown what we have learnt so far. Have our experts influenced John's thoughts on the future his 4 daughters will grow up into over the Next Billion...

Apples newest - iPhone 8 and iPhone X are here and are more than just the ultimate selfie machines. In this special episode learn what advances have been made to make them the best iPhone to date. This episode was recorded on an iPhone...

What was the universe like in the first billion seconds? How will it function during the last billion seconds of its existence? From the Big bang, to the importance of the Hadron Collider, Astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack takes us on a tour...