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Tomorrow's World Today

Season 1 2018
TV-G

  • 2018-05-05T12:00:00Z on Science
  • 25m
  • 4h 35m (11 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
"Tomorrow's World Today" presents a cutting-edge approach to exploring concepts in science and technology that are changing lives today and making a difference tomorrow. The series introduces innovative pioneers around the world who are forming new ways to utilize natural and technological resources to create a more sustainable society. One of those pioneers is host George Davison, an author/tech ambassador and creator of Inventionland, an immersive work environment for entrepreneurs to design products of the future. Actress/writer Tamara Krinsky reports from the field.

11 episodes

Series Premiere

2018-05-05T12:00:00Z

1x01 Park of the Future

Series Premiere

1x01 Park of the Future

  • 2018-05-05T12:00:00Z25m

George Davison unveils the Park of the Future for the very first time; this state-of-the-art innovation and inspiration park consists of four worlds: World of Inspiration, World of Creation, World of Innovation, and World of Production.

2018-05-05T12:00:00Z

1x02 The Energy of the Sun

1x02 The Energy of the Sun

  • 2018-05-05T12:00:00Z25m

Energy power to the Park of the Future is on George's agenda; he wants to look at the greatest ways to power his park; solar energy has to be one of the sources in abundance that can help.

2018-05-06T12:00:00Z

1x03 Home Grown Natural Gas

1x03 Home Grown Natural Gas

  • 2018-05-06T12:00:00Z25m

Natural gas is another energy source that George wants to explore for the Park of the Future; he also wants to understand how if you cool it to minus 260 degrees it becomes liquefied and can be safely transported all over the world.

2018-05-06T12:00:00Z

1x04 Sustainable Cotton

1x04 Sustainable Cotton

  • 2018-05-06T12:00:00Z25m

The growing, harvesting and processing of cotton to make clothing is a labor-intensive operation, it also requires copious amounts of energy and water; George seeks to uncover sustainable lessons developed by a cotton clothing manufacturer.

Smart buildings are a way of the future, but they all need to have the utmost fastest connective technology; George wants to uncover how he can create a smart building and the technology required to connect them with fiber optic solutions.

George accompanies Tamara to NASA; they take a journey from the past to the future, starting at the 1962 Mercury Mission Control and finish by buying two tickets to Mars.

2018-05-13T12:00:00Z

1x07 Taking Flight

1x07 Taking Flight

  • 2018-05-13T12:00:00Z25m

George needs to get people to the Park of the Future in the easiest way possible, which is obviously air travel, but is it by plane or by drone? Tamara does some research into airline travel and how they organize and schedule everyone.

1x08 Managing Money For Tomorrow

  • 2018-05-13T12:00:00Z25m

George wants to know more about cyber currency; they start researching what cyber currency means, which leads Tamara to New York City; on her visit to NY she gets to meet the brains behind the millions of credit card transactions.

George takes on his challenge to find companies that can help him design the Park of the Future and the rides in the individual worlds; he also re-visits a group he worked with ten years prior.

George meets up with Garry from Gildan who showed Tamara in an earlier episode how they sustainably manufacture clothing in Honduras. Garry meets with George to talk DNA in clothing.

George wants to know more about robots and sends Tamara out in the field to take a look first hand at a group of different types of robots; she interacts with one of them to see if she can compete head to head with a robot.

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