Life in the year 2100

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We follow a day in the life in 2100, exploring the cities, transport, workplaces and health of the future. Plus, astronomers find water on Mars, a magnetic wire which could screen for cancer and why your cat's poo could change your brain... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.3	Hello.
0:04.3	Hello.
0:05.3	Welcome.
0:06.3	And that is
0:10.0	and that is to say physics medicine, nature big time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello, this week, what do you think life will be like in 2100?
0:20.0	To find out we've asked a panel of movers and shakers to predict the future that awaits.
0:24.0	Their suggestions include implants to transfer memories.
0:28.0	So what will health care look like and what jobs are we all going to be doing?
0:31.0	Plus an underground lake on Mars, the magnetic device
0:34.5	that can find cancer in the bloodstream,
0:36.5	and the cat parasite that makes people better at business.
0:39.9	I'm Georgia Mills.
0:40.9	I'm Chris Smith, and this is The Naked Scientists.
0:43.7	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. First up this week decades of debate have been
0:58.4	apparently settled as it's been announced that there is currently
1:01.4	liquid water on Mars. A team from the
1:04.4	Italian National Institute for Astrophysics has discovered a lake under the
1:08.3	planet's South Polar Ice Cap. It's about 20 kilometers wide and full of liquid water.
1:14.0	But how did the team discover this and what does this mean about the possibility of life on Mars?
1:19.0	We have astrophysicist Carolyn Crawford in the studio with us to tell us all about it
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