The heated contest between Heisenberg and Oppenheimer had dramatic impact on the end of WWII.
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Two brilliant minds, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, do battle and, in the process, revolutionize lives.
2015 • Technology
Orville and Wilbur Wright and Glen Curtiss face off in a rivalry that puts lives at risk.
2015 • Technology
The invention of TV is born out of a David vs. Goliath competition between Sarnoff and Farnsworth.
2015 • Technology
William Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer push the limits of journalism, changing the media landscape.
2015 • Technology
The invention of the perfect revolver pits Samuel Colt and Daniel Wesson.
2015 • Technology
America and the Soviet Union set out to conquer the moon, but much more was at stake.
2015 • Technology
Eccentric genius Nikola Tesla enters a rivalry with Thomas Edison that will forever change the world.
2015 • Technology
The heated contest between Heisenberg and Oppenheimer had dramatic impact on the end of WWII.
2015 • Technology
Hannah Fry finds out how 1970s car crashes helped us to count our steps, why WWII dogfights led to a crucial health monitor and how fitness trackers are even being used to catch killers.
S1E5 • The Secret Genius of Modern Life • 2022 • Technology
Preserving truth in an era of misinformation is challenging. Bill traces the life cycle and impact of conspiracy theories, with insights from Lady Gaga.
S1E3 • What's Next: The Future with Bill Gates • 2024 • Technology
Explores how the Cold War and Pentagon dollars fund the explosive growth of modern Los Angeles, creating the gargantuan "military-industrial-complex".
S1E2 • Blue Sky Metropolis • 2020 • Technology
Professor Jim Al-Khalili looks at how we have created machines that can simulate, augment, and even outperform the human mind - and why we shouldn't let this spook us. He reveals the story of the pursuit of AI, the emergence of machine learning and the recent breakthroughs brought about by artificial neural networks. He shows how AI is not only changing our world but also challenging our very ideas of intelligence and consciousness. Along the way, we'll investigate spam filters, meet a cutting-edge chatbot, look at why a few altered pixels makes a computer think it's looking at a trombone rather than a dog and talk to Demis Hassabis, who heads DeepMind and whose stated mission is to 'solve intelligence, and then use that to solve everything else'. Stephen Hawking remarked 'AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilisation. Or the worst'. Jim argues that AI is a potent new tool that should enhance our lives, not replace us.
2018 • Technology
Imagine you could make a copy of a loved one. A digital clone with a life of its own – their Avatar. That’s the dream of biomechanical engineer, Dr Jordan Nguyen, and he says we have the technology to do it right now in the form of Virtual Reality.
S1E1 • Catalyst: Series 18 • 2017 • Technology
Acclaimed author, Malcolm Gladwell, leads this feature documentary about the emerging technology of self-driving vehicles and the big questions they raise: what is control and who do we become as we relinquish it to machines?
2020 • Technology