Recalibrating the Possible, Best of TWT

Phil, Stephen, and Michael D. discuss new technologies (and ideas for new technologies) that push the limits of the possible.

A good example of something that's possible:

• Sequencing the Woolly Mammoth genome.

Examples of technologies that push the limits:

• Faster-than-light travel
• The Star-Trek style transporter. 
• Indefinite human lifespan 
• Personal flight - Superman style 
• Hypercomputers 
• Retrieval of all extinct species 
• A bridge across the Atlantic Ocean
• Eliminating world hunger

[This show first aired November 24, 2008.]

Photo by Eugene Lim on Unsplash