Hey, it's Guy here. So a couple of decades ago, things like gene editing, designer babies,

super intelligent AI, they were all considered science fiction. But whether we like it or not,

that technology is now at our fingertips. So how are actions today?

Effect how this technology is used tomorrow. Today's show is called Future Consequences

and it originally aired in September of 2017. This is the Ted Radio Hour.

Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks. Ted technology entertainment design.

Design. Is that really what's 10 for us? I've never known the delivered at TED conferences

around the world. It's the gift of the human imagination. We've had to believe in impossible things.

This true nature of reality beckons from just beyond those talks, those ideas adapted for radio

from NPR. I'm Guy Ross. So imagine being able to go into the future, just to, you know,

get a glimpse of what things might be like and say you walk into a home. It's a small apartment

and at first things feel pretty familiar. There's a radio show going on.

There are newspapers. There's a sofa. There's some lights. And then you start listening to the

radio show and you start hearing about, you know, shipping lanes being closed because of

Arctic icebergs melting. You know, you start to understand that this is sounding slightly unfamiliar.

And then you walk through what feels like a sort of a maze corridor, but this has basically got

the sound of a drone like buzzing sound. And a musical sound of water drops. And this is basically

an elaborate contraption of fog-ponic machines, which are basically metal stacks and they use

fog, so not even soil or water to grow food. And you walk out, you see the cityscape outside,

you see a bit of unrest, you see some protests. And the idea that we want to give people is that

you walk in feeling like everything's fine. Then you go through a moment of feeling real fear and

anxiety as you begin to see the evidences that suggest that the world is gone completely

...