The Future

Leading thinkers explore how technology is going to shape the future of humanity.

In a Newsnight special marking the NHS’s 75th anniversary, Kirsty Wark asks the big questions about the future of UK healthcare. Broadcasting live from Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, Kirsty will be joined by TV doctor Xand van Tulleken and people working at the heart of the health service, to ask is the NHS on life support or fit for the future?

One of the world's largest, most advanced cruise ships must brave some of the roughest seas on earth. Using expert engineering and the latest tech, its crew relies on cutting-edge innovations to operate this 170,000 ton vessel safely and speedily.

What will the future look like? How will new discoveries and research impact our everyday lives in 2050?

In a new age of information, rapid innovation, and globalization, how can we prepare our children to compete? Once the envy of the world, American schools are now in trouble. Test scores show our kids lag far behind their peers from other industrialized countries, and as the divide between rich and poor grows wider, the goal of getting all kids ready for college and the workforce gets harder by the day. How can the latest research help us fix education in America? Can the science of learning - including new insights from neuroscientists, psychologists, and educators - reveal how kids' brains work and tell us which techniques are most likely to engage and inspire growing minds?

Elon Musk and experts from SpaceX and NASA are on a mission to revolutionize space exploration, and special inside access reveals how their cutting-edge spacecraft technology will carry humans to the moon, Mars and beyond.

Elon Musk and experts from SpaceX and NASA are on a mission to revolutionize space exploration, and special inside access reveals how their cutting-edge spacecraft technology will carry humans to the moon, Mars and beyond.

A cutting-edge series that brings new light to the most compelling topics. Explore the possibility of communication with other worlds. Can gamma rays, super volcanoes, and magnetic pole reversals destroy the Earth? Examine new theories based on unique individuals with astonishing brainpower. And discover how close we are to unlocking secrets of the fountain of youth.

Three programmes look at the environmental problems facing our planet. Is future development sustainable, and can people and wildlife co-exist?

John Z DeLorean's extraordinary and doomed attempt to build the sports car of the future in 1980s Northern Ireland is the stuff of legend. A buccaneering American entrepreneur, DeLorean had film star looks, a famous fashion model as a wife and an enormous ego that drove him to rival the giants of the US car industry.