Vision interviews Italian philosopher and academic Donatella Di Cesare, author of two recent books addressing conditions that threaten the global status quo.
Part 2: David Hulme interviews Achim Dobermann of Rothamsted Research about how agriculture will need to change if we hope to feed the world’s growing population.
Part 1: David Hulme interviews Achim Dobermann of Rothamsted Research about the effect of agriculture on our planet and how it will need to change if we hope to feed the world’s growing population.
Stanford neuroscientist William B. Hurlbut talks about his dealings with the Chinese researcher who created the world’s first gene-edited babies, and about the implications of that experiment.
Neuroscientist Anders Sandberg talks about the challenges and risks inherent in our steady march toward an age where machine intelligence surpasses that of human beings.
Piers Millett of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute talks about potential global biological catastrophes stemming from such risks as bioterrorism, pandemic disease and genetic manipulation.
Historian Lisa Vox argues for finding a way to address the threats that face us all. It starts, she says, with not condemning others for holding a different worldview.