Tomorrow’s World

By BBC Radio

What's Tomorrow’s World about?

Your big questions about the future answered. How science will influence and change our lives. Britt Wray and Ellie Cosgrave present a fortnightly investigation of a hot science topic in about 30 minutes. The Tomorrow's World podcast will begin a second run of episodes in early 2018.

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Tomorrow’s World episodes:

05.24.2018
Meet the Personal Data Superheroes - GDPR and beyond
Britt Wray and Ellie Cosgrave take a deep dive into our data. They discuss the implication of personal data rights in everything from city planning to medicine to human rights. You’ll hear from: Paul-Olivier Dehaye, who testified in the Cambridge...
03.01.2018
Is This the Real Life?
Look around you. It’s all there, right? It’s real, it’s tangible, it’s the physical world. But, what if it’s not? In the final episode of the series, Britt and Ellie discover the ideas of Simulation Theory – the...
02.15.2018
Do We Need a New Internet?
All around the world, governments are increasingly looking at control of the internet; whether it’s to regulate content, hide or ban content or increase ownership of your data. Is this the opposite of what the internet was originally designed...
02.01.2018
Who Wants to Live Forever?
In the sixth episode, entitled Dorothy, Britt and Ellie imagine a world that is completely free from disease and look at the current technology that is paving a way to that world. They investigate the cutting-edge science of CRISPR, human...
11.23.2017
Outbreak!
Do more aggressive and unknown outbreaks lie in our future? In a world where we continue to be struck by new pathogens, Britt and Ellie pit two teams of scientists against each other. In a game with a virus...
11.09.2017
Electric Sheep
Meet Mary. She’s sentient and she’s conscious, just like us. The difference? She’s an Artificial Intelligence. Britt and Ellie want to know what the future holds for AI, and so they follow Mary through her...
10.26.2017
Hope Floats
Will the cities we live in become uninhabitable due to climate change, overpopulation and other factors that lie in our future? If so, should we be investing in floating cities now to solve this problem? What might they...
10.12.2017
Enter the Wizard
In the second episode of Tomorrow’s World, Britt and Ellie investigate the more practical applications of brain-machine interfacing. They meet the “wizards” sharing their hats. What does it mean to “download our brains”, and will we morph our own intellect...
10.12.2017
The Wizard's Hat
Britt Wray and Ellie Cosgrave ask how can we meld machinery and our minds? Is it possible to create seamless communication between human brains and computers? Inventors and scientists, including Elon Musk, are fascinated by brain-machine interfacing. Not only...

What's Tomorrow’s World about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Tomorrow’s World episodes:

Meet the Personal Data Superheroes - GDPR and beyond

Is This the Real Life?

Do We Need a New Internet?

Who Wants to Live Forever?

Outbreak!

Electric Sheep

Hope Floats

Enter the Wizard

The Wizard's Hat