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Welcome to SYNAPSE: A weekend of life altering perspectives
What does it mean to be human in an age of AI, turbocharged tech? And overworked Nature?
Come find out.
Next-gen AI
Meet Sophia: world’s 1st social robot
A marvel of art & engineering. Cohabiting with humans.
But what will it mean to embrace the mechanical?
History & Genetics
Posthumous Portals
Who are we? How did we appear?
This is a detective story. A precision hunt. That begins with ancient DNA.
Sports & Bioengineering
Enhanced Games
A new era of elite sports is coming: with superhumans.
Thanks to bio-engineering.
Body & Bacteria
Meet your microbiome
100 trillion microbes. 5,000 species. 2 kilos in weight. Sitting bang in our centres: the gut.
Witness the ancient world nesting inside our modern bodies.
Body & Eastern Science
Breath as technology
1 breath every 4 seconds.
600 million in a lifetime.
How do we harness its power?
Nature-human Flashpoints
Wildlife. Humans. Nature
A worsening relationship.
But a new “philosophy of the forest” could come to the rescue.
Synthetic Biology
Welcome to Resurrection Biology
Every hour, 3 species go extinct. What if we could bring them back?
Enter moonshot thinking. CRISPR solutions. And the new science of de-extinction.
Tech & Inner Self
What does it mean to be 'you'?
Are reality and consciousness mysterious – or just mechanics?
And is the “I” what ultimately separates us from machines?
Tech & National Security
We’re one click away from crisis
A new era of war beckons: asymmetrical. Borderless. Anonymous.
Because data is today dynamite.
AI & Non-human Species
The human-non human barrier
Clicks of plants. Squeaks of bats. Humans are not the only ones talking.
Listen to snippets of sounds from other worlds.
Law & Neurotech
Neurotech is breaking & entering your brain
Imagine a world where your thoughts are no longer private.
Watch how this is becoming a reality.
Energy Security
Our planet is on red alert
We have breached 6 out of 9 planetary boundaries.
A green transition could save our earth.
But net-zero is a Rubik Cube of riddles.
Visuals
AI & Human Futures
A new synthetic species on the rise
A robot renaissance: with an AI upgrade.
Here’s the promise & the prelude.
The possibilities & the panic.
History & Genetics
The history of modern humans
A twisting, overlapping trellis of mixing and migration.
Ancient encounters that led to modern consequences.
Sports & Bioengineering
Humans, unlimited
Humans have shown incredible feats of strength, speed, endurance.
In a race to superhumanity, what will raise the bar: enhancement? Or hardening up?
Body & Bacteria
Our “second brain”
The human gut is 30 feet long. Inside it live master puppeteers: microbes.
See how they impact our health & happiness. Mood & motivation. Even our mental health.
Tech & Society
Snapshots of AI in India
A fresh philosophy. A public vision.
Persisting gaps and lingering unease. Yet unbound optimism – that India can redefine how the world uses AI.
AI & Human Futures
Will AI be the flood or the boat?
The perils of AI face off against the potency and promise of AI.
Which way will win?
Nature-human Flashpoints
People Tree
Conflict, loss, extinction: Our world is broken.
Enter tomorrow’s change-makers.
Tech & Inner Self
Our brain is a dream machine
Do we see reality as it is, or create it outside in?
Here are some mind-bending experiments that reveal the answer.
Sci-Fi Worlds
Here is a story
A virtual avatar. An AI assistant. Mind uploading.
Not future foretold, but alternative visions of modernities.
Tech & National Securit
The Tomorrow War
Cyberattacks. Tik-Tok wars.
Social media uprisings. Psych warfare.
The digital world has new rebels, terrorists, terminators.
Tech & National Security
The new tech cold war
Patents. Investments. Models.
Watch how the US and China are locked in an AI race.
Spirituality & Science
The Buddha Brain
Buddhism can help crack the “self”. Open new ways of being.
Even science agrees.
AI & Human Futures
Doom vs deep utopia
Suppose superintelligent AI arrives. What happens next – apocalypse or abundance?
And where does it leave us humans?
Brain Tech
Our ancient brains in a hi-tech world
We are now a race of distracted minds.
Tech is the cause. Can it be a solution?
Introducing the new frontier of digital medicine.
AI & Non-human Species
Hello, whale
AI is cracking whale clicks and codas.
And accelerating “first contact” with animals.
Tech & National Security
War 8.0
Tech is changing the rules of conflict. Subverting battlefields.
And creating new winners & losers.
Tech & Creativity
Lights, camera, algorithm
Whimy, Wonder. Scale, spectacle. Old stories, new eye.
Cinema is in transition.
India & Innovation
You're the new-age consumer
This is the age of the algorithm. And they're curating your desires. And shopping carts. Find out how social media is shaping your psyche as a consumer
Energy Security
Marvels of next-gen satellites
Find out what a typical satellite can do. How next-gen, hyperspectral ones compare.
And how they might just save the planet.
Climate Action
Deep Sea Mining: Green solution or gamble?
We will have 350 million EVs by 2030. The minerals needed to make them could come from the ocean floor.
But at what cost?