Quick Connections with Alie Ward

How did the invention of photography lead us to a world where we live entirely virtually? From photojournalism war and anarchy to wild hedonistic people gathered naked in the desert in search of communion Alie Ward will point us towards a future where we might upload ourselves to the web.

What could possibly link rockets and antidepressants? Are we on the cusp of having a neural switch that can control our moods? 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 falls through the wormholes of history into the Louisiana swamps then journeys on to discover how poker-faced mischief and a mathematical code for winning games have brought us to machines that can invent faces so real that nobody not even other machines can tell they are fake.