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TECH & SOCIETY

Internet as Outrage Machine

A portrait of the internet.

Home of connection and isolation. Community and polarisation. Democracy and mobocracy.

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CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change: Here, now & urgent

2023: The hottest year ever. Unprecedented number of climate disasters. Record number of hectares lost. A perpetual, "fifth season" is here: the Anthropocene.

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TECH & SOCIETY

Technology: Empires of Attention

Information. Entertainment. Anger. Addiction. Hive minds.

Dive into the underbelly of social media.

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MEDICINE

Missions Impossible: Meet the Tom Cruise of human medicine

The human body: nature's wonder. Now also a site of engineering marvel.

Biochemist Robert Langer is a pioneer.

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TRANSHUMANISM

Transhumanism: Merging human & machine

Imagine. The Cyborg. Metahuman. Ubermensch. H+.

Superhuman... or de-humanised?

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AI

AI: Enter the Machine Divine

Powerful. Exciting. Disturbing. Generative AI has taken the world by storm.

How will humanity respond to its own creation?

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TECH & SOCIETY

Automation anxiety: Tech, jobs & the future of work

Knitting needles to power looms. Horse-drawn carriages to cars. Tech has always reshaped work. Now AI is doing the same. But what makes it tectonically different?

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TECH & SOCIETY

Ex Machina: The future of human nature

As machines mimic better and better, and artificial intelligence surpasses the human kind, what does it mean to be human?

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GENE EDITING

What age would you choose to be?

The science & politics of age reversal. How audacious minds are questioning the fundamentals of life.

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PSYCHEDELICS

3 worlds: Psychedelics, stress, serotonin

The science of psychedelics is a re-emerging field. Dangerous, destabilising.

Or frontier methods of healing?

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BIG PICTURE

Hot, Flat. And Split: A world on fire

Hyper connectivity. Angry nature. Geopolitics in a tailspin.

We’re facing simultaneous tipping points.

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FILM

Time for a constitution for technology?

As tech becomes the new 'hand of god' in our lives, what tenets will define how it is governed, deployed, used? Open or closed. Exclusive or inclusive. Extractive or sustainable. Which values will win?

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SNAPSHOTS

SYNAPSE 2024 | SNAPSHOTS

Incisive. Insightful. Visually stimulating. A mind-expanding weekend.

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CONFERENCE FILM

Welcome to SYNAPSE | A weekend of life-altering perspectives | 2024

This is science & tech as never before. Intersected with society.

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GENE EDITING

Age reversal: Fact vs. fiction

Gene therapies. Chemical cocktails. Tried successfully on animals. Are humans next? What questions are at stake?

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JOBS

Future of work: An era of turbulence

300 million jobs could be disrupted by AI.

Will technology empower human capital, or endanger it? Will the pie of abundance be shared?

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TECH & SOCIETY

Social media: A pocket biography

Imagine the social web as a ship. Access. Connection. Community. Now imagine the shipwreck. Polarisation. Hive minds. Outrage.

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QUANTUM

Quantum: Next-gen tech & a new global race

The mind-bending world of atoms and subatomic particles. How it's changing our lives, the world, and perhaps even reality.

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NATIONAL SECURITY

War: Tech as the new minefield

Tech is redefining conflict.

A window into the tomorrow wars: Who will be the new terminators of the next battlefields?

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CLIMATE CHANGE

Nature, humans, technology: The age of acceleration

As three worlds – climate change, AI, and humans – collide, are atomised, and become polarised: What are we speeding towards?

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TECH & SOCIETY

Public Tech: India's great digital leapfrog

Home to the largest digital public infrastructure in the world, India is an advocate of value tech.

But its digital makeover remains an unfinished story.

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CONSCIOUSNESS

Consciousness: The watcher, the knower, the spirit self

How the “self” emerges from hard matter remains an open question. Will science crack the code of consciousness, or do the old savants have the answers?

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TRANSHUMANISM

Post-humans & techno-utopias: Edgy psyche of Silicon Valley

Meet the TESCREALs: Tech czars who believe there is nothing fixed about being human. Find out how they see the future of the world. And the human race

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PSYCHEDELICS

Psychedelics: Miracle Molecules

The human brain, a place of mystery.

Do psychedelics hold the key?

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TECH & SOCIETY

Tech as moral mirror: The new social dilemmas

Technology is forcing a human reckoning.

What's your score on the tech ethics test?

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CREATIVITY

Machines like me: Art in the age of AI

Nothing you see in this film is real.

Can human creativity survive the era of AI?

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AI

AI: How to train a dragon

A great debate rages.

Is AI a force multiplier for humans? Or an existential threat for the species that can mimic, replicate – and ultimately replace us?

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HEALTH & TECH

Health: The coming tech-tonic shifts

Virtual doctors. Digital twins. Reactive to preventive. Mass to personalised.

What are the frontiers of health tech? Do they represent utopia or dystopia?