Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

22nd Century (60 mins; 2007; dvd; English)

A film written by Michael Chorost

 

What is the world going to be like 30 years from now? Will human life spans increase to 250 years or more? Will personal computers be smarter than the humans who use them? Will machines shrink to a micro-level so small that they can make repairs inside a human cell? 22nd Century is about dramatic changes being made by scientific and technological research conducted in laboratories across the globe today.

 

The pilot episode, World Wide Mind, is about a new theory that suggests in the coming decades all our brains will be wired together just as computers were wired together via the World Wide Web during the 1990s

 

(Collaboration: The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama)