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Change is hard - people have been trying and failing to reform society for generations. But what if we had to? This is a show about rebuilding the world from scratch and reimagining everything from first principles. How should we design cities? What about schools? Power grids? Prisons? Money? Or the Internet? If we were starting over, what would we do differently? Because in the aftermath of 2020, we are. This is HARD RESET.
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The future of high energy density batteries
Picture an entire city charged by batteries. This new battery design may unlock a new era of energy.
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Four billion people are not connected to the internet. This company wants to change that, using satellites in geostationary orbit.
![An image of a planet with arrows pointing in different directions.](https://develop.freethink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/HR_Astranis_Web.jpg?quality=75&w=200&h=200&crop=1)
This model of computing would use 1/1000th of the energy today’s computers do. So why aren’t we using it?
![An image of a colorful square in the sky.](https://develop.freethink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HR_Aspinity_Web-1.jpg?quality=75&w=200&h=200&crop=1)
27 million likes on TikTok. A $0.00 product. How does the "FreeWater" company work?
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This company is building a new kind of “metamaterial” that can change the way we see reality.
![A 3d rendering of a colorful triangular shape.](https://develop.freethink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/HR_Metalenz_Web.jpg?quality=75&w=200&h=200&crop=1)
How will we feed 8 billion people? New tech is making it possible.
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This farming robot kills 200,000 weeds per hour with lasers.
![a tractor with a green light in the middle of a field.](https://develop.freethink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Hard-Reset-Laser-Weeder_Web.jpg?quality=75&w=200&h=200&crop=1)