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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.