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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Picture an entire city charged by batteries. This new battery design may unlock a new era of energy.
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“This is a system that will enable the sub-thousand dollar ticket from San Francisco to Tokyo in 3.5 hours.”
What if your body could become a USB cable? Ixana, a cutting-edge wearable hardware company, is revolutionizing how we connect our devices by using our bodies as conductors.
$20,000, 100 days, no job, 1 garage. This family built a self-driving car during the pandemic. Now, they’re starting a company.
Fast-fashion is over. “Automated Apparel” is here to reduce waste, fit everyone better, and save human time and labor.
The race to build the first space factory is on — and this team is beating everyone to the finish line.
It takes years to fix a complex fighter jet. Machina Labs' robo-factory could do it at the click of a button.
McNuggets delivered in < 10 min for just $1? This underground “Amazon Prime”-like delivery service is the closest thing humans have to teleportation.
Meet Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, the self-proclaimed space bastards who are urging us to rethink space colonization.
Would you use a desktop CNC? What about no-snow skis? Could a car with 90º wheels make parking easier? We went to the biggest tech event in the world to try out viral tech for ourselves.
“We are losing when we create a lesser version of ourselves.” Bryan Johnson has created a blueprint to reverse-aging, and a vision for the future of humanity.
Have your buffalo wings, save the chicken. Step inside a lab-grown meat factory with us to see the future of food.
Will robots replace us? Apptronik, creator of the general purpose robot Apollo, has crafted a product that would only take the undesirable tasks away from humans.
This suit is changing the future of video game development, streaming, and motion graphics.
18-hour fast, 100 pills, bizarre tech - we tried Bryan Johnson’s age-reversal routine for 1 month.
Artificial intelligence is bigger than image prompts and idea generation. Much bigger. This veteran technologist says Generative AI will bring about “The New Internet.”
Four billion people are not connected to the internet. This company wants to change that, using satellites in geostationary orbit.
This model of computing would use 1/1000th of the energy today’s computers do. So why aren’t we using it?
27 million likes on TikTok. A $0.00 product. How does the "FreeWater" company work?
This company is building a new kind of “metamaterial” that can change the way we see reality.
How will we feed 8 billion people? New tech is making it possible.
This farming robot kills 200,000 weeds per hour with lasers.
These tiny electrospray thrusters cut spacecraft payload so that we can explore the asteroid belt, outer planets, and beyond.
We flew to the UK to learn more about the designer 3D-printing third thumbs.
80% of our ocean floors have never been studied. This robot sailboat is unlocking the most treacherous parts.
Could bringing back ancient pyramid-building techniques make carbon-negative housing a reality?
Picture an entire city charged by batteries. This new battery design may unlock a new era of energy.
Millions of tons of batteries are headed to landfills. Here’s the plan to save them.
“A new wave of material sciences could help us start cleaning the environment instead of just, well, using it as a trash can.”
