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NARRATOR : Your smart car
will shift shapes.

You'll fax
three-dimensional objects.

And intelligent machines will
run your life if you let them.

Technology is pushing
from every direction. . .

getting faster
with each passing second.

Prepare yourself.

The future
is closer than you think.

The human brain

does 100 trillion calculations
per second.

By 2050, your desktop computer

will have the equivalent
processing power

of 9 billion brains.

NARRATOR :
We're in the midst

of a powerful acceleration
in computer technology.

And when computers gain
artificial intelligence --

thinking, reasoning,

and communicating ideas
like a human can --

it will change everything.

The question is,
will machines dominate humans,

or will we still control
the Earth?

At the center of the debate

is the legendary futurist
Ray Kurzweil.

Within 30 years, we'll have
the hardware and the software

to create
superhuman intelligence.

These machines
will be vastly superior

to unaided human intelligence.

They may keep us around,

but we won't be able
to keep up with them.

Actually, l think
we'll use these machines

to expand
our own intelligence.

So we won't have trouble
keeping up with the machines.

We're gonna become the machines.

NARRATOR :
We're already becoming machines.

We wear digital earpieces.

We're useless
without our wireless devices.

And in the future,

we won't know where we end
and the technology begins.

The exoskeleton is an analogue
to the human body.

lt has structures
which replace bones.

lt has actuators
which act as muscles.

lt has computers
that act like brains.

NARRATOR : lts computer brain
allows the exoskeleton

to move in harmony
with your body,

giving you superstrength.

JACOBSEN :
He can carry a 1 50-pound load

with no more effort on him
than he's putting now.

He was pulling
the 200-pound pulldowns.

He quit after 500 out of boredom

because the loads on him
never got more than 5 pounds.

He can march for 1 0 hours.

l mean, l don't think
he gets fatigued.

NARRATOR : The exoskeleton is not
just about brute strength.

You can still move
with great agility.

You simply put it on,
and it works.

NARRATOR :
lt's easy to see why an army

of exoskeleton-enhanced soldiers
would appeal to the military.

But they can also become a part
of everyday civilian life.

JACOBSEN :
l think, in 50 years,

that systems such as this can be
hanging on a hook in the house.

NARRATOR : You'll be able
to strap on an exoskeleton

to do any heavy lifting
around the house

or pull your car out of the mud.

But will the exoskeleton
ever be smart enough

to operate on its own?

JACOBSEN :
lt's possible in the future

that the exoskeleton could not
have the person in the cavities

so it actually becomes
an autonomous robot.

And, yes,
those machines will reason.

NARRATOR : But how do you teach
a machine to reason?

l nstead of just building
bigger and faster computers,

some scientists believe we
should follow nature's example.

lf we let intelligence evolve,
as it did in our brains,

the computers
will teach themselves.

We're making such great strides

in understanding
how our brains work.

Artificial intelligence
is inevitable.

NARRATOR : Professor Larry Yaeger
was a consultant

on the movie ''Terminator 2. ''

He's created a computer program
filled with digital creatures

to see if he can get them
to evolve intelligence.

He calls his experiment
''Polyworld. ''

Polyworld is an electronic
primordial-soup experiment.

These colored trapezoids
are the critters of this world.

NARRATOR : Right now,
his electronic critters

are about as smart
as your average worm,

with the equivalent
of about 300 brain cells.

YAEGER : The bright-green blocks
are the pieces of food.

They consume that food.

They use the energy they get
from it to live their lives.

NARRATOR :
His critters are wired

with the basic biological
imperatives of life --

to survive and procreate.

And their neural-network brains

can make simple decisions
about how they do that.

YAEGER :
lt was just like ''Go forward.

Turn.

Eat now.

Mate now. ''

The wiring diagram
of their brain

that drives all those behaviors

is the main thing
that evolves in Polyworld.

NARRATOR : Each decision
they make adds more information

and experience
to their tiny digital brains --

information
they can actually pass along

to their digital offspring.

And each generation
is getting smarter

about how they survive
Polyworld.

YAEGER : We can have
a computational worm

evolve towards
computational insects

and mammals and computational
lab rats and primates.

By the year 2035,

you could reasonably expect to
have human-level intelligences

running around in such a system.

NARRATOR :
And then what will happen?

Will they be alive?

YAEGER : Certainly,
as you get to something

that's approaching
human-level intelligence,

you can't just pull the plug.

Basically, l like to think
that if a machine can ask you

not to turn it off,
then you shouldn't.

JOURET: The key question
we should ask ourselves is,

'' ls it intelligent?''

'' ls it capable of learning?''

And if the answer is yes,

then we should extend
the same privileges and rights

to those non-carbon-based
forms of intelligence

that we currently extend
to other fellow human beings.

NARRATOR :
Especially when robots

start to look
more and more human.

And Professor Hiroshi lshiguro
is pretty sure they will.

Because he's already been able
to create such a humanoid --

his own robot twin,
called ''Geminoid. ''

Geminoid is his exact double,

not just in appearance,
but in behavior.

Professor lshiguro
uses motion-capture sensors

to duplicate his every move
in his android self,

even giving it his voice.

[ Speaking japanese ]

And sophisticated actuators
mirror lshiguro's every twitch.

lt's so realistic that it even
creeps out lshiguro himself.

lshiguro envisions a day
when his robot alter ego

is given an artificially
intelligent brain. . .

. . . allowing it to take on
more of his teaching load.

[ Speaking japanese ]

l magine a future full
of realistic-looking humanoids

whose intelligence
rivals our own.

NARRATOR : Today it may seem
like computers are everywhere.

But desktop monitors
with clunky CPUs

will soon be
a thing of the past.

l n our smart future,

chips and sensors
will be embedded in everything.

The planet will be filled with
smaller, more powerful computers

that will communicate
with each other and with us.

Machines will be intelligent,
arguably self-aware machines

that you'll be able to walk
up to, have a conversation with.

MALE VOlCE: Please deposit
50 cents for the first hour,

25 cents
for each additional hour.

l don't have any change.
l'll just be five minutes.

l'll get some.
l'll be right back.

MALE VOlCE:
Five minutes registered.

Watch my bag for me.
Thanks.

MALE VOlCE:
Sure. No problem.

NARRATOR :
Even your furniture

might be entirely constructed
out of molecule-sized computers,

intelligent specs
that can reshape themselves

according to how
they're programmed.

Professor Seth Goldstein
calls it ''Claytronics. ''

GOLDSTEl N : Claytronics is a form
of programmable matter,

a collection of computers.

l magine that each one of these
little pieces of lead

was a computer that could not
just compute and communicate,

but actually move around
and then cooperate

with all the other units
to form dynamic 3-D shapes.

NARRATOR : These tiny spheres
are called ''catoms, ''

computational atoms that will
be able to combine in clusters

to become any shape
you want them to be.

GOLDSTElN : lt can move around.
lt can change its color.

l imagine that Claytronics

will be used
for just about everything.

NARRATOR : The first application
will probably be

the three-dimensional
fax machine.

The idea is, we could send
not just sound and picture,

but actually
the 3-D shape itself.

NARRATOR : Place any object in
a container full of Claytronics,

and they can determine
its size and color.

Then those dimensions
can be transmitted

to another bed of Claytronics

that will reassemble
the exact object.

GOLDSTElN :
Claytronics is a technology

that is going to ride the
sort of exponential-growth curve

that we see
in many computer technologies.

We could have 3-D fax
within five years.

NARRATOR : Three-dimensional
faxing is just one

of many new ways we'll be able
to receive information.

We will have computers
woven into our clothing,

embedded into our bodies.

We will carry multiple devices,

and they will talk
to each other.

NARRATOR :
TVs, computer monitors,

MP3 players,
lnternet devices --

displays surround us.

How about one display --

one you can wear
right on your eye?

The goal we have
is to incorporate

electronic devices
onto a contact lens

to make it
a lot more sophisticated.

NARRATOR : Dr. Babak Parviz
is a man with a vision --

that soon, you'll be able
to surf the l nternet

on a transparent screen

mounted directly
on the surface of your eye.

He's creating
the smart contact lens.

PARVlZ: You can imagine
a variety of applications

for a display
that's directly constructed

onto a lens
that you can pop into your eye.

NARRATOR :
A wirelessly connected computer

on your contact lens
will change your life.

JOURET: l think
we'll take several steps

towards a more immersive
experience of technology.

And we'll start by what
is called ''augmented reality, ''

which is an ability
to overlay the virtual world

onto the real world.

NARRATOR :
But is it really possible

to build a screen
right on your eye?

PARVlZ:
We have been able to incorporate

all the metallic interconnects
that you need to make a circuit.

NARRATOR : So you could have
a digital contact lens

that connects wirelessly
to outside devices. . .

. . .within the next 30 years.

EVANS:
Everything will be connected.

And when l say ''everything, ''
l mean everything.

You will always be connected
at very high broadband speeds,

no matter where you are. . .

. . . even on a bus.

NARRATOR : With all
that our smart future promises,

taking the bus to work doesn't
sound all that appealing.

But what if you took the bus
instead of going to work?

Really?

Oh, l can check that
for you here.

NARRATOR : Dave Evans and ClSCO
are in the process

of creating the world's
smartest bus in San Francisco.

lt stands out.
lt's this big, green bus.

lt's hard to miss it
coming down the street.

NARRATOR : He sees a future
where public buses

let you stay connected
to the outside world,

even providing information
on anything they pass.

The windows themselves
become transparent displays,

where information
about attractions and sites

are overlaid based on
where you are in the city

and the context
of what you're doing.

NARRATOR : And it'll be stuffed
with navigational intelligence.

Every bus has
a GPS transponder on it

so that passengers can know
exactly where they are.

NARRATOR : And the bus will, too,
which is good,

because in the future,
it'll drive itself.

lt'll be connected

to the rest of the
transportation infrastructure.

l magine road signs,
traffic signals, even bus stops

transmitting information
to one another.

You can imagine
dynamic road signs

that direct you
based on traffic conditions.

The beauty
of being always connected

is the world becomes
a lot more seamless

and allows you to spend
your time living your life

instead of spending your time

getting from point ''A''
to point ''B. ''

NARRATOR : Your future will be
filled with intelligent objects,

but the smartest thing you own
may live in your garage.

With smarter
engineering technologies,

cars will be able to fulfill

specific functions
for their humans.

When you want to get
somewhere fast,

you'll use a rocket car.

lf you live on an island,
you'll want an aquatic car.

But when it comes
to jetting down the road

in a high-performance machine,
you may just need a Koenigsegg.

A car with a lot of power
and responsiveness

makes you feel like Superman.

NARRATOR : The Koenigsegg
is the fastest street-legal car

on the planet, hitting speeds
up to 250 miles per hour.

The body is made of lightweight,
superstrong carbon fiber,

giving it more horsepower
for its weight

than any other car on the road.

And that's nothing

compared to what they put
under the hood next.

KOEN lGSEGG :
Proprietary engine technology

which basically
reduces emission by 30%

and increased power by 30%
at the same time.

And this is something
that engine designers

have been dreaming about
for 50, 60 years,

but now it's possible.

NARRATOR :
The high-performance engine

runs on both gas and ethanol.

The oil prices
are just going up and up,

so that, kind of together with
the environmental consciousness,

is changing
the way cars are being built

and how they're gonna look
in the future.

NARRATOR :
But Koenigsegg doesn't believe

that using
alternative power sources

means you have to compromise
on performance.

Let's say 2 80 miles per hour

is a possibility
in the next five to six years.

lf you haven't seen the future,
you haven't driven fast enough.

[ Engine revs ]

NARRATOR : But you may not
have to go fast or far

to find the car of the future

because the smarter cars
of the future

just may come and find you.

PARENT: CyberCar is a car
totally automated

in order to improve
the transportation for everyone.

NARRATOR :
The CyberCar is coming --

a fully automatic car
that drives itself

using video
obstacle recognition, GPS,

and advanced
road-sensing technologies.

These are
the taxis of the future.

They don't need a driver,
and this is a big advantage

because they can be called
on demand.

NARRATOR :
Like a faithful pet,

your future car will come
when you call it.

l magine ordering up
an automatic car

to get you
wherever you need to go,

on demand, 2 4 hours a day.

And once it drops you off
where you're going,

the car leaves by itself,
on to the next customer

without any erratic swerving
or road rage.

30, 40 years from now,

today's environment
will not exist anymore.

We will not have cars

doing any kind
of stupid maneuvers at any time.

We will have cars
which will be behaving properly

because
they will be computerized.

jOACH l M : Cars in the future
will be moving in flocks.

They'll be talking,
they'll be connected.

Every car will have
a brain of its own.

NARRATOR : And smarter,
computer-driven cars

will be safer cars.

jOACH l M : Cars in the future
are gonna talk to one another,

just like
people talk to one another.

They need to share the space
of the city with the pedestrian.

l n fact, no one in the future

should ever die
in a car accident again.

NARRATOR :
And they don't get much smarter

than the latest car
from France's Assystem.

The City Car is designed
to navigate the urban jungle,

but inside lurks the
intelligence of a fighter jet.

Your windshield
is about to be replaced

by state-of-the-art
augmented-reality systems.

A better representation
of reality

means having five cameras
mounted around the vehicle

to provide real-time video
of the road.

lt means no more blind spots
and fewer accidents.

And your road cameras
can go infrared,

allowing you to drive
in complete darkness.

Because the dashboard
is a computer monitor,

you can control
where your controls live --

shift the rearview mirror
closer to your line of sight,

move your speedometer higher.

Everything is customizable,

even the way
its electric engine sounds.

So you can gun it
like a muscle car

or have it hum like a roadster.

lt'll be up to you.

Urban cars
have to be theftproof.

The City Car uses
a retinal detector

to confirm its true owner
is behind the wheel

and to make sure
the driver is alert.

CAR : Wake up.

NARRATOR :
The City Car gets great mileage,

thanks to its
lightweight plastic body.

l n fact, most car designers
of the future

won't be bound
by the rigid realities of steel.

What would happen if
instead of welding up a frame,

we knitted it?

Let me introduce you to G l NA.

The idea behind G l NA
was an idea

to free us up from
the standard way of doing things

and let us try and approach
some things differently.

The entire skin on this car
is a flexible material.

lt stretches, and it does all
that the outside skin has to do.

NARRATOR :
GlNA's skin may look soft,

but it's actually
an incredibly tough,

expansion-resistant,
industrial fabric

that is both water-repellent

and impervious
to high or low temperatures.

lt's stretched across
an aluminum-frame chassis

that gives her that classic
two-seat-roadster shape

and reinforced
with ultra-strong struts.

This structure right here
is the substructure

which protects you in a crash,

makes sure
that nothing happens to you,

keeps all things safe,
keeps the car stiff.

NARRATOR : But the structure
also has movable parts,

causing the skin to ripple
and fold in new ways,

blending function with design.

Unlike other cars,
which just turn on their lights,

GlNA actually opens up.

Hello?

There we go.

Can we get a little bit
of light out of you?

There we go.

NARRATOR : lf you need to get
under the hood

to service the engine or refill
the oil, GlNA obliges.

And after we're done with it,
we let it close.

GlNA, can you
close your hood, please?

Thank you very much.

NARRATOR : The idea is
that GlNA will be able to use

movable substructures
to morph into various shapes.

BANGLE: Your car would change
to match your mood,

your style, your needs.

''Today, l need to take
a lot of stuff to the dump,

and so l need a lot of space
in the back of the car. ''

The car has to change
to adapt to that.

But tomorrow l happen to be
going with my wife to a party,

and l would like the car to look
as elegant as we are dressed.

NARRATOR :
Future cars will be smarter,

but that doesn't mean they'll be
any less fun to drive.

lt took 200 years

to fill the Library of Congress
with all of its information.

Today we create that amount
of information every 15 minutes.

NARRATOR :
The future is going to be fun.

lf it's not, why bother going?

The intelligent future
will have many new ways to play.

NARRATOR : Smarter technology
will blur the line

between what is real
and what is not.

New immersive games require
new ways to play them.

Future gamers won't need
a joystick or a paddle.

They'll interact
with their games

directly from their brains,

using devices like
the EPOC headset from Emotiv.

Our whole interaction
with the virtual world

is going to be far more natural.

We'll be able to use our brain
and our facial expressions

and our emotional experiences

to really experience content
in entirely new ways.

And what we've created
is a brain-computer interface

that really transforms the way

that humans interact
with machines.

NARRATOR :
The Emotiv EPOC wireless headset

has 1 6 independent sensors
that pick up

electrical brain signals
on the surface of the scalp.

We identify a signature
for a particular thought

or a particular emotion,
and then, in real time,

we classify
those brain patterns.

NARRATOR : So when you think it,
it happens on the screen.

You think ''push, ''
the object propels forward.

MAN : So, now my master's
showing me how to pull

using that tree.

And then he'll ask me
to focus all my thoughts

on pulling that tree
towards me.

There are
13 individual detections --

push, pull, lift, drop,
left, right, and then rotation

in six different axes
in a 3-D environment.

NARRATOR : You can even visualize
an object disappearing,

and it will.

But the headset is more than
just a brain-powered joystick.

lt allows the game to detect

whether or not
you're actually having fun.

LE:
lt observes your experiences --

excitement versus calmness,
immersion,

tension, frustration,
engagement.

There are these mischievous
spirit wisps

that, instead
of pressing a button,

l can scare away
just by looking fierce, so. . .

[ Growls ]

And you can notice by the sky
color that l enjoy that part.

NARRATOR : So, when it comes
to future game-playing,

keep an open mind.

We're really only
at the tip of the iceberg

in terms of what's possible.

NARRATOR :
So, will all this innovation

in virtual-reality gaming
spell the end

of a good old-fashioned
night out at the movies?

l don't think
games will ever replace

other forms
of narrative entertainment,

simply because
they do different things.

NARRATOR : Even as virtual games
explore new frontiers,

traditional forms
of entertainment

will also undergo
some big changes,

starting with the actors.

l believe that, in the future,

we'll be creating
digital movie stars.

Synthespian
is a synthetic thespian --

any character
that's generated by computer

that fulfills
some sort of dramatic role.

NARRATOR : Synthespians don't
require an astronomical salary.

They work around the clock
without complaint

and live quietly on a hard drive
between death-defying stunts.

Over the last 20 years,
we've been working very hard

to get to what would be called
the holy grail,

which is simulating
a human face.

You would not be able to
differentiate that performance

from a filmed performance
of a human being.

The rate of acceleration
of this technology

is truly mind-boggling.

lt's another thing entirely.

KLElSER :
We will see digital movie stars.

[ Screams ]

KLElSER : The personality
comes from the animator

rather than
from the on-screen talent.

And l will become the actor.

We're already seeing
some of the movie theaters

start to move
towards 3-D projection.

l think the key would be
a 3-D, immersive experience

without any extra peripherals.

NARRATOR : One day,
you'll go to a live play

only to find out it's being
performed by synthetic actors.

No glasses.
Nothing required.

You just look at the displays,
and it projects 3-D.

To be, or not to be --

NARRATOR : You'll watch
live performances that feature

all the realism of a movie. . .

entire settings instead of sets.

lt will be like

being on the stage
in the middle of a play.

Maybe we can pause
and walk around

and look at it
from different angles.

We could make
large-scale holograms

that could be seen
from any angle.

The limits just disappear.

NARRATOR : Movies will now
literally transport you

into a fantasy world.

Virtual technologies
are ushering in

entirely new forms
of entertainment,

but that doesn't mean
old ones will disappear.

When we started
having television,

everybody thought
that film would end.

And then
when video games came out,

they said that nobody
would go to films anymore.

l think we're just adding
more and more diversity

to the spectrum
of entertainment.

NARRATOR : And every form
of entertainment --

games, films, or even travel --

will live
on the future l nternet,

our intelligent network,

making them available
whenever and however you like.

What's going to happen is, all
forms of human entertainment,

whether it's music,
whether it's television,

whether it's film,

will all be delivered
on the network, on demand

anywhere, anytime you want
on any device,

whether that's a mobile, PC,
TV -- any device you wish.

You're gonna be able
to play back whatever you want.

NARRATOR :
The houses of the future

may bear little resemblance
to the traditional

little white house
with a picket fence.

They'll be built
in a matter of hours

out of materials
that are clearly intelligent.

KlERAN : l believe
cellophane is the future.

lf this house
does not provoke you,

then we've failed.

NARRATOR : Everything
in this cellophane house

is transparent or translucent
because its walls are made

of clear material
known as P. E. T.

But will a cellophane house
made out of P. E. T.

be strong enough to last?

You can hang a car
in a sheet of P. E. T. ,

and it will not fail.

Basically,
you'd be living in a house

that's made out of
former water bottles.

NARRATOR :
And unlike your walls,

the cellophane walls
will be smart.

Electronics
embedded in the material

not only light the house
but generate its energy.

KlERAN :
We printed on it

materials that could harness
the energy of the sun --

organic solar cells.

NARRATOR :
And because it's lit

by the next generation
of L. E. D. technology,

you'll never have to screw in
a light bulb again.

Regardless
of its outward appearance,

your home will be filled
with smarter technologies

designed to save you time and
improve your quality of life.

[ Beep ]

HATTAR : lt'll know as you move
from room to room what you like.

Things like
temperature of your home

will adjust to your preferences.

NARRATOR :
And your home appliances

won't just be efficient.

They'll be smart, connected to
each other and to the l nternet.

JOURET: Although there are about
1 .3 billion people

on the l nternet, we're moving
from an l nternet of people

to an lnternet of things.

Within the next five years,

we'll have
about 14 billion things

communicating on the lnternet.

Your bathroom will provide you
with the news and weather,

even while
you're brushing your teeth.

HATTAR : We could see
how our connected home

can deliver additional services

to make our lives
a little bit easier.

NARRATOR : Your kitchen might
be run by a central console

that keeps a running inventory
on all your groceries,

prompting you when you need
to order more of anything.

But since it's connected,

it can also surf the Web
for you.

lf you have any questions
about your friend's gift bottle,

scan it over to your TV,

and you'll be able to watch
an entire program about it.

The console will even track
your home's energy consumption,

telling you
if there's a leaky faucet,

to make sure you're operating
at maximum efficiency.

ln fact, most future homes

will actually be able
to create their own energy

using solar blinds
that harness the sun's power.

But who has the time to oversee

this growing staff
of smart appliances?

And who will make sense out
of the torrent of information

now available
at the touch of a panel?

Meet Cleopatra --
your future virtual home runner.

Nice to meet you.

So it's kind of somewhere
between a butler, a secretary,

a personal assistant,
and a babysitter.

NARRATOR :
Cleopatra is an avatar --

a virtual personality who lives
in Brian Conte's basement.

She mostly lives on a box that
we have down in our server room.

NARRATOR : Cleopatra runs all
the home's automated systems,

from the lights
to the lawn-mowing.

She adjusts the temperature
and the window blinds.

She can even change
the music in each room

according to your mood.

[ Classical music plays ]

CONTE: One of the nice things
that the system does

is remind my boy to go to bed.

He is an avid reader.

He can stay up till 1 :00 or 2 :00
without even realizing it.

Lights out, Zeb.

CONTE: There's so many helpful
things that the house can do

once it knows who you are
and where you are.

NARRATOR :
She keeps track of the family

by using radio-frequency
l . D. technology.

[ Beep ]

RFlD allows you
to tag an object or a person

with a code that the computer
can read through sensors,

allowing it to know
where everyone is at all times.

Katherine has left the house.

CONTE: As soon as l step up
to the front door,

it recognizes me, opens
the door, welcomes me home.

CLEOPATRA:
Welcome home, Brian.

Remember, your wife's birthday
is next week.

NARRATOR :
RFlD technology

also helps Cleopatra
run the family food shopping.

CONTE: You simply scan things
as you throw them away.

lt will automatically reorder
anything that you scanned.

lt will appear the next morning
on your doorstep.

NARRATOR : l magine never again
running out of milk.

Today, Cleopatra does mostly

what she's been programmed
to do.

Cleopatra runs the house,
but l'm still the boss.

NARRATOR : But in the future,
automated house runners

will be far more intelligent,

and they'll be
far more connected,

able to act as your family's
representative on the Web.

The Hong Kong market
is now open.

Shall l log in?

There will be virtual people,

separate entities
on the l nternet,

performing tasks on your behalf.

That is a natural extension
for something like Cleopatra.

l can't wait.

Goodbye, Brian.

NARRATOR :
But sometimes,

the things that need doing
around the house

just can't be done
by a virtual house runner,

no matter how smart she may be.

lt's great that we've evolved
so that laundry's washed,

but wouldn't it be wonderful

if it could actually be folded
and put away?

Wouldn't it be great
if my robots did that for me?

NARRATOR :
Your first robot butler

will probably look a lot like

the world's most advanced
humanoid, Asimo.

KUFFNER : Asimo is currently
the state of the art

in terms of humanoid technology.

NARRATOR :
Asimo is around 4 feet tall

and weighs a little more
than 1 00 pounds.

So, he's a small-stature
humanoid,

and in that way,
he's very nonthreatening.

NARRATOR : To be
the ultimate home assistant,

future all-purpose robots

will have to master
the terrain of our world --

stairs, doorknobs, and faucets,

which is why our robots
will need to be humanoids,

like Asimo.

KUFFNER : We can have
our humanoid actually use

a real vacuum and push it around
or use a mop or use a broom

or use tools
that were designed for humans.

NARRATOR : Eventually, our robots
will be fully programmable

so we can teach them new tasks
by downloading a file.

KUFFNER : l could call my robot
from my cellphone

on the way home from work
and say,

''Tonight l'm interested
in having a quiche. ''

NARRATOR : And your home robot
won't just download behaviors.

lt'll be a computer
with two legs.

They'll be connected
to the lnternet and, if so,

sort of the world's
knowledge base.

And in the future,
we may take them for granted.

[ Computerized voice ]
Please don't.

92% of all scientists
who ever lived are alive today.

85 % of all engineers
who ever lived are alive today.

Think about it.

NARRATOR :
The future will see machines

with a built-in
artificial intelligence

that will rival our own.

We will find ourselves
working with

and competing with
intelligent machines.

Ultimately, these machines
will be much more powerful

than unaided human intelligence.

NARRATOR :
The machines are ready.

Are we?

YAEGER : As artificial
intelligences improve,

so are
our natural intelligences.

NARRATOR :
The design of the human brain

hasn't been upgraded
in 30,000 years,

but that's about to change.

Human beings
are not standing still

in terms of their intelligence.

NARRATOR :
There is considerable room

for improving the brain.

The fact that
a third-year graduate student

has more mental agility
than l do

is a simple fact of science,
and it's one that pisses me off.

NARRATOR :
Dr. Gary Lynch

is working on a way
to improve on nature's design

by getting our brains
to operate more efficiently,

even as we age.

And so he is studying
our synapses,

the tiny gaps
between our brain cells

that carry electrical signals
from one cell to the next.

As you begin to age,
these things begin to decay.

You feel the loss
of cognitive capacity.

You feel the loss of memory.

NARRATOR :
Dr. Lynch has found a way

to make those synapses
work better

using a new class
of neurostimulants

called ampakines.

DR. LYNCH :
What the ampakines do

is they restore the synapses to
the strength, to the facility,

to the plasticity they had
when you were young.

NARRATOR :
Ampakines literally amplify

the jolt of electricity
between brain cells. . .

which means your thoughts

are transmitted
across more neurons.

You'll be able to think faster

and in ways
you can't now imagine.

Because the imagination
that you have

is limited
by the number of neurons

that you can assemble
at any given instance.

NARRATOR :
lt's heady stuff.

The potential is there to do
things the brain cannot now do.

NARRATOR :
But will it be enough?

WARWlCK:
There are some people that say,

''Okay, we have
intelligent machines around,

but they will always do
what we want.

They will act as our slaves. ''

This is ridiculous!

lf we have machines that are
more intelligent than we are,

they will decide
what they want to do.

lf the machines
have it in for us,

we won't have any defense.

There's no protection
from something

that's more intelligent
than you are

if it's bent
on your destruction.

Actually, the defense
from malevolent A. l .

is just another A. l .
that's even smarter.

Yeah, and the side with the more
intelligent A. l . will prevail.

WARWlCK: The train
has already left the station.

Machines will dominate.

NARRATOR : Kevin Warwick
thinks our only hope

for controlling
our future intelligent machines

is to become them.

lf you can't beat it, join it.

NARRATOR :
To figure out

how we might join our brains
with machines,

Kevin's lab is conducting
an unusual experiment --

taking live brain cells
from a rat

and embedding electrodes
in them.

WARWlCK:
And when we've got about 1 00, 000

of these neurons linking,
communicating together,

we're connecting it up
to a robot body.

NARRATOR : That's right --
Kevin Warwick is using

the living brain tissue of a rat
to drive a robot.

WARWlCK: That brain is the sole
controller for the robot body.

We don't have
a computer in there

that's doing some little things
and changing the signals.

NARRATOR : Sensors on the robot
can detect the walls.

And through
a wireless connection,

it sends that information
to the sliver of rat brain.

The brain then actually tells it

to turn left or right
to avoid the wall.

WARWlCK:
And the output from the brain,

which we can pick up
as electrical signals

on different electrodes,
drives the wheels of the robot.

NARRATOR : To let the rat brain
know when it's successful,

Kevin stimulates it
with a little extra voltage

as a reward.

Brain cells
like being stimulated.

WARWlCK: lt's a bit like
giving a child an ice cream,

but you can't be sure
the child's going to do

exactly what you want it to do.

And the same is true
with the biological brain.

NARRATOR : Kevin Warwick
isn't just creating

a brain-controlled robot
for fun.

He sees it
as a necessary first step

toward the eventual merger
between man and machine.

WARWlCK: l would be able
to give myself

all sorts of abilities
that l don't have now --

extra memory,
new means of communicating,

getting different sensory input,

instead of being limited
to the five human senses.

Your television set
can sense the world in infrared.

You can't.

Surely you must feel
a bit jealous of that.

l certainly do.

l want an infrared sense.
Why not?

NARRATOR : His goal is
nothing less than to be the one

who ushers in a new age
of fully cyborg humans.

WARWlCK:
That new cyborg

with a part-biological
and part-machine brain

is what will go ahead
and dominate the world

in the future.
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So the future, l see very rosy
if you're a cyborg

or if you're an
artificial-intelligent machine.

lf you're a human,
well, your time's up.

NARRATOR : We won't need to fear
our intelligent-machine future

because as cyborgs,
we will merge with the machines.

And when we do,
it will usher in a new era --

an era of discovery,
problem-solving, and creativity

and one that redefines
what it means to be human.

There's a technology avalanche
on the horizon,

and the landscape
will never be the same.