Connections With Alie Ward

Alie Ward explores how the invention of photography led to people having virtual lives. She then points towards a future where everyone may have the option to upload themselves entirely to the web.

Alie Ward searches for the secret to eternal life. From ancient herbal remedies to embryonic stem cells, she explores every possible route to a future where humans could remain young forever.

What could possibly link rockets and antidepressants? Alie Ward weaves a chain of extraordinary connections, from our earliest dreams of standing on the moon, to our pill-popping present and a future of happiness on-demand.

Alie Ward takes us on a journey that at face value seems very dubious. From deceitfully taking Parisian women to a swamp in Louisiana, to machines that can invent faces so real that nobody, not even other machines, can tell they are fake.

A heroic bid for freedom engendered great innovation, culminating in the literal opening up of the heavens. However, it is unclear whether controlling the weather will save humanity from climate catastrophe.

From dissecting corpses to peering into microscopes, studies have revealed the secret structure of the nervous system. This poses a question about the evolution of a race of superhumans.