PBS NOVA. John Lithgow narrates as Tom and Ray, brother co-hosts of NPR's Car Talk, mix their trademark slapstick with serious nuts-and-bolts analysis of what it will take to make our autos more energy-efficient. With a quarter of all the oil ever consumed guzzled up in the last decade and oil supplies being drawn down faster every ...

Interesting interview on how government at all levels need to address fundamental problems.

In this last part of the interview sequences with Steve Wozniak, he discusses what he is doing now, speaking at technology of tomorrow 08 and new technology focus areas.

Strokes, diseases and congenital deformities can all lead to disabilities beyond the scope of current medicine. But tomorrow's treatment IS being developed today via a multinational scientific initiative: doctors and engineers are creating advanced electronic implants to cure the incurable.

The Automotive X PRIZE teaser. The Automotive X PRIZE will invite teams from around the world to focus on a single goal: design viable, super-efficient cars that achieve an equivalent of 100 mpg that people want to buy. For more information, please visit auto.xprize.org.

Meet the scientific prophets who claim we are on the verge of creating a new type of human - a human v2.0. It's predicted that by 2029 computer intelligence will equal the power of the human brain. Some believe this will revolutionise humanity - we will be able to download our minds to computers extending our lives indefinitely. Others ...

The Body The City The World A conservative look at the world in 50 years. Most of the applications shown are actually in development, or close to it. 2032 might have been a better title. Michio Kaku hosts...

In this new three-part series, leading theoretical physicist and futurist Dr Michio Kaku explores the cutting edge science of today, tomorrow, and beyond. Episode 2, The Biotech Revolution, argues that humankind is at a turning point in history. In this century, we are going to make the historic transition from the 'Age of Discovery' to the ...

In this session of the 2007 Foresight Vision Weekend, Self-Aware Systems founder Stephen Omohundro leads a discussion in which we will try to design the year 2030 assuming that we have both self-improving artificial intelligence and productive nanotechnology. We'll consider some of the likely characteristics of these technologies such as ...

In the opening instalment, Kaku explains how artificial intelligence will revolutionise homes, workplaces and lifestyles, and how virtual worlds will become so realistic that they will rival the physical world. Robots with human-level intelligence may finally become a reality, and in the ultimate stage of mastery, we'll even be ...