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3D Printing and Peak Oil
How will the revolutionary technology of 3D printing may help us rise to the future challenge of Peak Oil? | |
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The New Narrative
This video reflects on how the Next Big Thing may not be a revolutionary technology, but rather a new set of values and attitudes that promote more sustainable living. | |
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3D Printshow London 2012
This video reports on the many 3D printers and 3D printing developments that were showcased at the 3D Printshow held in London on 19th to 21st October 2012. | |
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The Net Energy Timebomb
All known alternative energy sources have a lower net energy yield than petroleum. This video explains the resultant "net energy time bomb" that we therefore will soon face. | |
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The 3D Printing Revolution
This video explains how 3D printing will soon herald a new era of digital object storage and transportation, as well as customized personal manufacturing . . . | |
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Online 3D Printing
This video demonstates how to use an online 3D printing service to create a physical, metal object from a computer model . . . | |
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Thirtysomething Civilization
This video ponders if industrial civilization can really ever free itself from an inevitable, natural cycle of rise and fall . . . | |
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Singularity or Decline
This video discusses whether we are headed toward the technological utopia of the Singularity, or if instead our civilization faces an inevitable decline . . . | |
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25 Things You Need to Know About the Future
This video highlights 25 future challenges and technologies that may alter how we live and what we may become . . . | |
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Life Extension
This video covers a range of potential life extension developments including CRON diets, genetic medicine, nanobots, cryonics and uploading . . . | |
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Bioprinting
This video illustrates how bioprinters will in future create replacement human organs and could even give us a face transplant . . . | |
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Synthetic Biology
This video explains the new science of creating new or radically different living things from standardized biological parts . . . | |
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Global Warming Solar Sails
This video explains how we could control global warming by building vast solar sails out in space . . . | |
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Why Do We Stop Thinking?
This video asks why human beings achieve so much and then stop thinking . . . | |
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Future Cities
This video looks at the challenges faced by future cities in the face of uncertain food, energy and water supplies . . . | |
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Mining Helium-3 on the Moon
This video examines the possibility of mining the rare gas helium-3 on the Moon as a fuel for future clear nuclear power . . . | |
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The New Industrial Convergence
This video examines the new industrial convergence as the boundaries blur between manufacturing, medicine and digital media . . . | |
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The Death of Economics
This video I argue for the death of economics as the primary mechanism for governing human civilization . . . | |
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Learning From Global Catastrophes
This video discusses how we may learn to cope better with future predictable global catastrophes, including Peak Oil and climate change. | |
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An Archaeology of Wonder
This video explores the changing nature of human achievement past, present and future . . . | |
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The Future A - Z
This video presents an alphabet of tomorrow as a rapid introduction to Future Studies . . . | |
Challenging Reality TV Shows
Challenging Reality TV Shows
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From the Pyramids to the Digital Age
This programme explores the history and future of great human achievements . . . | |
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Our Island Earth
This programme explores the paradox of humanity's need for constant geographic expansion in the face of dwindling natural resources.. . . | |
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The Power of One
This programme looks at the impact of technological development on human beings past, present and future . . . | |
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Brave New World
This programme examines some inevitable future challenges and possible potential solutions . . . | |
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Playing at God?
This programme examines the blurring boundaries between human beings and machines . . . | |
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