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Mushroom Leather? 3D-Printed Homes on Mars? “A Brief History of the Future”

Season 2024 Episode 6200 | 18m 01s

In a new documentary series, "A Brief History of the Future," renowned futurist Ari Wallach travels the world to meet the people finding solutions and laying the foundation for a better world for the generations to come. Ari Wallach joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how we might become the great ancestors the future needs us to be.

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