44 Episodes

  1. Can AI Make You Laugh?

    Published: 5/16/2023

  2. What Happens When AI Takes The Wheel?

    Published: 5/9/2023

  3. Watson Part 2: How IBM’s Big Bet Failed

    Published: 5/2/2023

  4. Watson Part 1: And the winner is…Watson!

    Published: 4/25/2023

  5. Humans vs. Machines with Gary Marcus

    Published: 3/7/2023

  6. 05: The Future of Psychedelics in Healthcare

    Published: 9/13/2022

  7. 04: Outsmarting Chronic Pain

    Published: 9/6/2022

  8. 03: Technology and Mental Health Care

    Published: 8/30/2022

  9. 02: Solving the Mysteries of Alzheimer’s

    Published: 8/23/2022

  10. 01: Unlocking The Brain: How Computers Can Read Our Thoughts

    Published: 8/16/2022

  11. Season Three: The Future of the Brain with Judith Warner

    Published: 8/16/2022

  12. 06: How Governments Can Shape Technology

    Published: 9/28/2021

  13. 05: The Likelihood and Risks of Superintelligent Machines

    Published: 9/21/2021

  14. 04: Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Life

    Published: 9/14/2021

  15. 03: How Business Models Have Shaped Big Tech

    Published: 9/7/2021

  16. 02: Our Brains and Technology

    Published: 8/31/2021

  17. 01: The Future of Social Media

    Published: 8/24/2021

  18. Season Two: The Future of Technology with Kurt Andersen

    Published: 8/23/2021

  19. 05: The Future of Cities

    Published: 10/29/2020

  20. 04: The Future of Higher Education

    Published: 10/22/2020

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Human beings are living longer than ever. Thanks to advances like vaccines, antibiotics, pasteurized milk and clean water, we’ve added more than 30 years to the average lifespan over the last 120 years. That’s more than was added in the previous 10,000 years combined. More recently, enormous progress has been made in our treatment of deadly conditions like heart disease and cancer, with mortality rates for each dropping by double digits. Now science is tackling a new challenge: Can we cure aging itself? In pursuit of this holy grail, longevity research has gone from a sleepy backwater to a multi billion dollar field, populated — yes — by plenty of hucksters, but also by Nobel laureates. The goal is to find out what causes us to age and what we can do to slow it down, or maybe even reverse it altogether. Could tweaking the right molecule buy us 20 more years, or are we maxed out? Can older brains be re-wired to function like younger brains? Do any so-called biohacks actually work?  These are some of the questions we are tackling in this season of The World as You’ll Know It: The Future of Aging. With leading scientists in the fields of biology, neuroscience and medicine, we’ll look at the cutting-edge of aging research and what living longer could mean for all of us.