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- Honor Flight chronicles a community coming together to honor World War II veterans. The film follows a team of Midwest volunteers as they race against the clock to send every local WWII veterans to see the memorials built in their honor.
- Challengers - a Freethink Original Series presented by Fast Company. Across the globe, innovative entrepreneurs are racing to develop new businesses that could dramatically improve people's lives. But startups are hard work, and success is far from guaranteed. Join us as we profile the next generation of challenger companies and get an intimate view of where they are on their journey to transform an entire industry-to change the world.
- Superhuman: From prosthetic limbs and exoskeleton suits to implants that allow the blind to see and the deaf to hear to bionic organs that are giving people a new lease on life; amazing advances in bionics and prosthetics today are making the present look more like a sci-fi depiction of the future.
- Want to see into the future? We'd all like to, and experts do their best to forecast what's to come. But, still, even they can get it wrong.
- An invisible war is being waged. Foreign governments are hacking corporations, corporations are collecting consumer data, and the NSA is listening to everything. A new generation of programmers is rising up and fighting back.
- This is the remarkable true story of how ordinary people armed with nothing more than smartphones, flash drives, skateboards, lipstick and tattoos are fighting back against their oppressors and winning.
- If we could detect Alzheimer's earlier, we could treat it better. Two college students designed a device that may be able to do just that.
- One of the most significant transformations in humankind is underway but largely going untold. Fueled by advances in technology and innovation, global poverty has been slashed in half over the last decade with predictions that it will be eradicated over the next. From makeshift cities to smart phones to water purification to the blockchain, join us as we travel the world to see firsthand how entrepreneurship is lifting people up in the developing world. This is the incredible true story of the rising billion.
- It feels like we've never been more divided. Yet amidst our most intense religious, political, and cultural conflicts, there are people around the country who are working tirelessly to forge connections. It's not easy and the odds of success are far from certain, but for some, accepting things as they are just isn't an option. Freethink presents a new original series, "Crossing the Divide."
- In Zimbabwe, where mental health resources are scarce, the Friendship Bench is demonstrating real, positive impacts. Picture community grandmothers, treasured for their wisdom and cultural knowledge, sitting on benches and providing therapy sessions. This approach, steeped in cultural values, has not only resonated with the community but has also shown scientifically backed success, even outperforming traditional therapy methods. With its simplicity and cost-effectiveness, the Friendship Bench has crossed Zimbabwe's borders and is being replicated in six other countries, lighting the path toward addressing the global mental health gap.
- The vast majority of performers and content creators never have to think twice about having reliable access to banking services. Sex workers are often treated differently. Despite not having broken any laws, banks and payment processors often deny services to sex workers for reasons they say are related to ethics. Cryptocurrency may offer a solution. Adult content creators can now receive payments in the form of digital assets which they can transfer to their bank accounts without having to tell the bank they earned the money through sex work.
- We're on the verge of a smart home revolution. From light bulbs to toilets, smart devices are becoming the norm. By 2030, there may be 50 smart devices in every home. However, WiFi technology is not keeping up with this increasing demand. One shortcoming is an inability to assign bandwidth that adjusts dynamically to demand inside the home. A company called Plume thinks it has an answer. It has created "adaptive WiFi" that uses machine learning in order to adapt to your behavior. It then distributes bandwidth accordingly to the devices connected to the network.
- In July of 2011, the U.S. suspended its decades-long Space Shuttle program, officially ending an era of space exploration that began over half a century ago. Some have mourned its passing as a sign of the times - as evidence that we could no longer dare to dream. But unbeknownst to many, a new era of private space exploration has already begun... and it's firing on all cylinders. The New Space Race is the story of a 21st-century revolution.
- One Stone, a school in Boise, Idaho, might look like a typical American school from the outside. But inside you will not find teachers, tests, or grades. One Stone, after all, is a student-run school. The ambitious idea began when teachers noticed that students were struggling to engage with classes. More than that, they were coming out of the K-12 system without really understanding what the purpose of education was as it relates to their life and goals, according to Chad Carlson, director of research and design at One Stone. One Stone aims to change that by giving students more power in choosing what and how they want to learn. The long-term goal is to prepare students not just for higher education, but for the meaningful lives they want to live.
- Immortality might never be possible in the literal sense. But what if you could achieve a version of immortality through technology - a digital representation of yourself with whom your loved ones and future generations could interact? That's the capability already offered by grief tech companies. Their goal is to replicate the essence of a living person - their personality, their physical likeness - within a "digital ghost" that could, in theory, live forever. The form and complexity of digital ghosts vary by company. Some are chatbots. Others are full-fledged digital holograms. No matter the form, grief tech is raising fascinating questions about the nature of legacy, how we grieve, and the extent to which people are comfortable interacting with digital ghosts.
- At its peak, NASA's shuttle flew to space a few times a year. XCOR wants to be something more like Southwest Airlines for space. They're working on a spacecraft prototype with a very ambitious goal: four daily flights to space, five days a week. If XCOR is successful, they could take more people to space in six months than NASA did in 30 years.
- NASA intern turned entrepreneur, Jason Dunn, saw what was holding humans back from colonizing outer space...and decided to do something about it. His company allows astronauts to break their reliance on costly resupply missions from Earth and-for the first time ever-build new supplies for themselves in space.
- Imagine a delivery service that promised to drop your package within five miles of your house, but couldn't tell you exactly where until after the delivery had happened. That's how landing on the moon has historically worked, and it's a problem Astrobotics knows how to fix. The company's unique GPS system allows it to land spacecraft within meters-rather than kilometers-of the intended target. That might not matter much now, but it will when moon colonizers need fresh supplies from their home planet. Production company Freethink documents the work of Astrobotics in this episode from the series The New Space Race.
- Spire's CubeSat satellites-each about the size of a shoe box-can collect and transmit weather data 10,000 times a day, which is more than six times as often as the massive, billion-dollar satellites we've used for generations. Spire's satellites could be key to finally reigning in the stubbornly unpredictable world of weather forecasting, from giving us a better idea of when to pack an umbrella to warning the world's most vulnerable populations of an impending natural disaster headed their way.
- Twenty years from now, humans will live and work in space in record numbers-so says Rick Tumlinson, a two-decade veteran of the private space industry. As companies work feverishly to develop the tech needed for this galactic future, Tumlinson is bringing together the people who will use it. His New Worlds annual gathering is a place for space lovers of all ages to brainstorm, fantasize and-more importantly-prepare for life off Earth.
- Ryan Petersen, founder of Flexport, believes that nothing helps people improve their lives more than the ability to trade with one another. And, yet, even in the era of free trade, international shipping for businesses is still way too cumbersome. If Flexport succeeds, the chair you're sitting on, the phone you're holding, and the clothes you're wearing will all cost less.
- Impossible. Crazy. Dangerous. Scott Phoenix, founder of Vicarious, knows that people are scared and skeptical of human-level artificial intelligence. But he's building it anyway because he believes smart machines could one day cure cancer, create new forms of energy, and solve virtually every problem that humans simply can't.
- Transatomic is designing a nuclear reactor that can produce a lot more electricity than a conventional reactor, while creating a lot less nuclear waste. But they'll need to take on a deeply entrenched industry and convince a cautious public that they can safely harness the most powerful energy in the world.
- 2016–TV EpisodeEveryone wants America's education system to do better. Ex-Googler Max Ventilla has a radical idea for how to make schools work more like a social network. Ventilla's AltSchool is building a highly-personalized education experience that gets better and cheaper as more students use it. A decade from now, AltSchool may have built a new school system that ALL will be able to join.
- Imagine if you could climb Mount Everest and go on stage at a Beyonce concert with your friends...before breakfast. Linc Gasking and his team of visual effects experts at 8i thinks they can make holograms of humans so real, that VR will go mainstream and they'll alter the human experience forever.
- Ladar Levison's email service counted Edward Snowden among its users. But, when the FBI demanded Levison hand over Snowden's communications, Levison destroyed the company's servers. Now, he's back with a more secure version of the service that could make mass surveillance obsolete.
- At an undisclosed location in Sarajevo, a group of hackers are working with journalists to expose organized crime and corruption. But those engaged in illicit activity respond with cyber attacks and other intimidation tactics. Can the group fight off the attacks and help journalists bring the truth to light?
- In our hyper-connected world, hacking is a superpower. And Nico Sell wants to make sure that power ends up in the right hands. She started Rootz Asylum to teach kids how to hack and encourage them to use their new-found talents for good.
- Founder of BitInstant, Shrem was one of the first Bitcoin entrepreneurs and it paid off big time until he allowed a customer to resell bitcoin on Silk Road, the infamous internet black market. From his perch as a multi-millionaire, Shrem went to having almost nothing and spending a year in jail. Now, he's out and sure of two things: he's learned his lesson, and Bitcoin is the future of finance. Can Shrem convince the world that both are true?
- There is an incredible amount of data in your DNA. Heather Dewey-Hagborg wants to make sure you have control over that data. She developed a spray that masks your DNA wherever it's left. Is it a new frontier in personal privacy or a handy tool for criminals?
- In Ethiopia, the main prison is divided into eight zones. Many refer to the rest of the country, where surveillance and repression is the default, as "Zone 9." But Endalk Chala is fighting back. Chala spends his days as a doctoral student in Oregon, while moonlighting as an encryption expert, helping bloggers in his native Ethiopia escape capture, torture, and possible death at the hands of the government. He believes technology is the key to giving a voice back to people who are forced to stay quiet.
- A pervasive fear of overpopulating the world swept America and other countries in the late 1960s and '70s, but a revolution in food production turned predictions of a population bomb into a worldwide boom.
- As scientists began to develop in-vitro fertilization in the '70s for parents struggling to have a baby, experts and media piled on with frightening predictions that almost stopped the invention that has helped millions of families today dead in its track.
- In the months and days leading up to the year 2000, many grew alarmed that a computer bug would collapse networks and bring down economies and global stability in its wake. Did we narrowly avoid the apocalypse because of some world-saving last minute de-bugging? Or was the worldwide panic just way off base?
- After years of repression, smartphones and social media are giving Myanmar a taste of the outside world. And young people are eager to catch up on what they missed. We join a group of skaters who are re-imagining life in the once isolated society and shaping its future in the process.
- Faced with difficult hardships, many residents of Rio's largest "slum" city are rising up and building better lives for themselves and each other. Not long ago, this incredible city was composed of little more than wooden shacks; today it's a thriving community built on top of an intricate labyrinth of housing, businesses and utilities.
- When an imam invited a Jewish congregation to worship in his mosque, many of his members left in protest. But the initial controversy has since given way to an inspiring example of tolerance and compassion.
- Why a gay rights activist started a movement to talk to thousands who voted against gay marriage.
- A local barber teams up with an officer to ease tensions in their community.
- What happens when you put people of all political persuasions together over dinner?
- The 3D-printed prosthetics revolution started with a single child but has since snowballed into an incredible movement of shared designs and tech that's making prosthetics better and cheaper for everyone.
- Jay Leiderman isn't your normal defense attorney. He's committed his career to defending hackers, including Anonymous, the world's most secretive and famous hacking organization.
- The super-secretive hacker known as MalwareTech became famous when he dismantled the WannaCry computer virus, one of the most alarming privacy threats in recent memory. But the praise was cut short when the FBI arrested him for creating a virus that gave hackers access to people's banking credentials. Was he just doing research to stop criminal activity or engaging in criminal activity himself?
- In the wake of the Panama Papers hacking scandal, computer programmer Smári McCarthy decided he needed to apply his "hacking for good" philosophy to politics. As a member of the Pirate Party - a political party formed around the concept of extreme transparency - Smári was elected to Parliament in Iceland and is trying to use a hacker mindset to improve his country and the world.