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May 15, 2017
Artificial intelligence - its merits and dangers - is explored as an inevitable future.
May 22, 2017
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May 31, 2017
Advances in graphics and computing power have given rise to a renaissance in virtual technologies, offering people profound experiences via online personas. Will reality become a pale shadow of the imaginative worlds we've created? What do we risk losing?
Jun 07, 2017
Has constant connectivity affected privacy? In the deep future, will we become telepathic? And will we communicate with civilizations beyond Earth?
Jun 14, 2017
Over consumption of energy and resources has led us to a breaking point where we will either have to engineer our way around our problems or look to other planets to inhabit through terraforming, which could disrupt those ecosystems. Is this human-centric view of the universe the right approach? And is it possible there are alien civilizations that have reached this similar inflection point?
Jun 21, 2017
When will we conquer the final obstacle - space travel, and how will it change us as a species.
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Year Million Season 1 (2017) is released on May 15, 2017. Watch Year Million online - the English Documentary TV series from United States. Year Million is directed by Mark Elijah Rosenberg,Walter Pitt and created by Chris Connolly with Laurence Fishburne and Negin Farsad. Year Million is available online on Apple TV and Amazon Video.
What was once conceived as science fiction is now anchored in reality. Year Million, a new six-part documentary-drama series from National Geographic, explores what it will be like to be human one million years into the future. Today's brightest futurists, scientists, scholars and notable science fiction writers guide viewers through the very latest advances in technology, ideas and innovations that likely will power the evolution of our species. Through illustrative, dramatic storytelling, Year Million paints a version of humanity's fate through the lens of a typical futuristic American family, which includes a daughter who is android. The series propels us into an odyssey of unfathomable choices humans will face while questioning the kind of lives we'll live and the people we'll become a million years from now. Year Million imagines a future when mortality becomes a thing of the past; man merges with machine; intelligence is limitless; and the human species becomes interplanetary. The series predicts how every aspect of technology may affect our lives, for better or worse.