Introducing grand ideas

America hippop singer future brings up grand ideas for america well being

The 21st Century can sometimes feel a pretty scary place : rising oceans swallowing coastal cities ; fresh threats of looming nuclear conflict ; robots that are apparently going to steal all our jobs – and that’s just the half of it. We’ve arguably never faced more complex challenges, and the headlines seem unending.

And yet, at the same time, we’ve never lived in a time of such promise.
We know so much about the world – more now than any other time in human history. And we know what needs to get done to make sure humans thrive in the 21st Century – and well beyond.
That’s why, starting today, BBC Future Now is launching a new series called Grand Ideas: a special series that will cover dozens of ingenious inventions, organisations, and futuristic moonshots that aim to solve humanity’s newest, most pressing threats.