The Economist
Is AI the future of movie-making?
- Title
- Is AI the future of movie-making?
- Runtime
- 6:39
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- What if text prompts enabled anyone to make a blockbuster movie, or even an entire box-set’s worth of TV? That is the promise of AI. This technology could one day prove as transformative to the movie business as sound, colour, or even the camera itself. Generative AI can already make videos in seconds which would normally take a visual-effects artist days to create. However it has yet to master photo-realistic video. The people at the forefront of this tech say it is only a matter of time.
00:29 How does AI-generated video work?
02:43 How long until feature films are generated by AI?
03:57 Can AI-generated videos be photorealistic?
04:36 How revolutionary is AI in film?
05:05 A dystopian threat to jobs or democratisation of the industry?
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3MkUK8f
Art made by artificial intelligence is developing a style of its own: https://econ.st/40n7Sj4
Wa...
- Title
- Why is crypto like a cockroach?
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- It’s really hard to kill cockroaches. Stamping on them, chopping off their head and even flushing them down the toilet won’t work. Much like cryptocurrency—an industry which, despite some recent setbacks, seems able to bounce back when you least expect it.
00:00 Why crypto is like cockroaches
00:25 Crypto is soaring
00:48 Why is crypto so hard to kill?
Sign up to our weekly finance newsletter to keep up to date: https://econ.st/3P3zTG8
Listen to our Money Talks podcast: https://econ.st/3Sa2gEY
Read more of our finance stories: https://econ.st/48PSZsP
More on our cockroach theory of crypto: https://econ.st/3OeZqxb
Decoding Sam Bankman-Fried: https://econ.st/3HwCzcP
More on the fall of crypto bosses: https://econ.st/3HyebHG
- Title
- Sam Altman: there’s no “magic red button” to stop AI
- Runtime
- 3:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speak to The Economist’s editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, about what the future of AI will really look like.
00:00 Sam Altman and Satya Nadella talk to The Economist
00:25 What’s next for ChatGPT?
1:33 How dangerous is AGI?
2:32 AI regulation
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Read more of our AI coverage: https://econ.st/3O9fK2v
Watch the full interview here: https://econ.st/3O7qXk5
Read our write up of the interview: https://econ.st/3HpwbUL
- Title
- Sam Altman on AGI: people will freak out then move on
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- If artificial general intelligence is achieved, it will be able to outperform humans on most intellectual tasks. The Economist asks Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, how worried the world should be about AGI.
Watch the full interview here: https://econ.st/3RUSgzm
- Title
- Altman: there's no magic red button to stop AI
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, talks to The Economist’s Editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, about how he navigates the risks raised by artificial intelligence.
Click here to view the full interview: https://econ.st/3RUSgzm
- Title
- Why America's next war may begin on a small tourist island
- Runtime
- 1:39
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Guam, an island in the northern Pacific, is just 48km long and has a population of about 170,000. So why is it so important to America’s strategy to defend Taiwan from a potential Chinese invasion?
00:00 - Where is Guam?
00:13 - Why is it so important?
01:00 - What makes it vulnerable?
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Guam, where America’s next war may begin: https://econ.st/47lP9WN
America is lavishing attention on Pacific island states: https://econ.st/47of0xd
How the Pentagon thinks about America’s strategy in the Pacific: https://econ.st/3tG49RG
Read more of our US coverage: https://econ.st/4aRvOj4
Read more of our China coverage: https://econ.st/3S9G6nC
- Title
- Why is Ethiopia risking war for a port?
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Ethiopia’s president, Abiy Ahmed, has signed a deal with Somaliland to get his landlocked country direct access to the sea. Abiy hails this as an act of diplomacy, but could it destabilise an already volatile part of the world?
00:00 - a new dispute in the Horn of Africa
01:00 - the historical context
01:29 - the implications of the new deal
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Read more about the region: https://econ.st/4b1lIwv
Ethiopia’s deal with Somaliland: https://econ.st/3tJGQGB
Why does Ethiopia want access to a seaport?: https://econ.st/3H9RA45
Why Somaliland isn’t a recognised state: https://econ.st/48pfwMY
Conflict in the Horn of Africa: https://econ.st/48mt7of
- Title
- How AI is generating a revolution in entertainment
- Runtime
- 20:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A new wave of artificial intelligence is starting to transform the way the entertainment industry operates. Who will be the winners and losers?
01:07 AI is changing the music business
04:09 How big data revolutionised entertainment industries
05:20 Can AI predict a film’s success?
09:26 How generative AI is creating new opportunities
12:36 What are the risks of generative AI?
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/45PGz1H
The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how: https://econ.st/477Qb98
Watch our previous film about how AI is transforming the creative industries: https://econ.st/45VBnJU
A battle royal is brewing over copyright and AI: https://econ.st/3QgM5EZ
How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history https://econ.st/3Qng9Pc
The widespread adoption of AI by companies will take a while https://econ.st...
- Title
- President Zelensky's goals for 2024
- Runtime
- 3:13
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- As 2024 begins President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to The Economist’s Editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, about his political and military goals for the coming year and why he won’t compromise with Vladimir Putin.
00:00 - 2024 military goals
01:35 - Why he won’t negotiate
A New Year’s interview with Volodymyr Zelensky: https://econ.st/48A4Nim
Read our coverage from the war in Ukraine: https://econ.st/41MgGjc
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Russia tries to overwhelm Ukraine with missiles: https://econ.st/41PnIni
How five Ukrainian cities are coping, despite Putin’s war: https://econ.st/41MgJLU
A majority of congressmen want more military aid for Ukraine: https://econ.st/3tuWKVl
Ukraine’s army is struggling to find good recruits: https://econ.st/3vsViDd
Vladimir Putin is running Russia’s economy dangerous...
- Title
- The most important elections to watch in 2024
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- More than half the people on the planet live in countries that will hold nationwide elections in 2024. In theory it should be a triumphant year for democracy. In practice it will be the opposite
- Title
- The World Ahead 2024: five stories to watch out for
- Runtime
- 17:19
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- What are the stories set to shape 2024? From the biggest election year in history, to how to control AI and even taxis that fly, The Economist offers its annual look at the world ahead.
00:00 - The World Ahead 2024
00:33 - Vital votes
03:34 - Taxis take off
07:10 - AI rules
10:19 - Industry cleans up?
13:48 - BRICS build
Read more on The World Ahead 2024: https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead-2024
Read Tom Standage’s editor’s note on The World Ahead 2024: https://econ.st/3ROGB69
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Europe, a laggard in AI, seizes the lead in its regulation: https://econ.st/3GNsYOD
Taiwan’s presidential election will be a three-way race after all: https://econ.st/41ukOnz
China is watching closely who will be Taiwan’s next president: https://econ.st/4apC55B
Decarbonisation of industrial a...
- Title
- Which countries get the best night's sleep?
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Sleep patterns differ across the world. From early-to-bed South Africans to Russians who hit the sack around midnight, we reveal the cultural nuances that shape global sleep schedules. Watch the film to find out where your country ranks in the lie-in-dex, and why it matters.
Read more about which countries get the best night's sleep: https://econ.st/3GTRxt8
Find out why chinstrap penguins sleep thousands of times a day: https://econ.st/48pow45
Find out why people sleep at all: https://econ.st/3RSTTyw
Subscribe to The Economist: https://econ.st/3uwzp5y
What actually happens when we sleep? https://www.economist.com/films/2023/09/08/what-happens-when-we-sleep
Why sleep and songwriting make one of the greatest partnerships: https://econ.st/3GOigaB
- Title
- Is nuclear fusion the future of clean energy?
- Runtime
- 6:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Fusion is a kind of nuclear power, which could revolutionise how clean energy is produced. As a new wave of experiments heats up, can fusion live up to the hype?
00:33 The future of green energy
02:00 What is nuclear fusion and how does it work?
03:17 Is it achievable?
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3s9WjPB
Energy security gives climate-friendly nuclear-power plants a new appeal: https://econ.st/3QHgdd1
Listen to our podcast about the importance of private companies in advancing nuclear fusion https://econ.st/49n7aqa
Fusion power is coming back into fashion: https://econ.st/49jPwDu
Watch our film about the transition to green energy: https://econ.st/473WDNT
The race to build a commercial fusion reactor hots up: https://econ.st/47kpfDn
Watch more of our Now & Next series: https://econ.st/46TXWjv
- Title
- How the Amazon became a Wild West of land-grabbing
- Runtime
- 1:53
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- To save the Amazon rainforest, Brazil’s President Lula must work out who owns it. But with 22 different agencies registering land claims–and many of them overlapping–it’s not an easy task.
00:00 - How is Amazonian land distributed?
00:27 - How do land claims conflict?
01:15 - How is Lula helping?
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Read our coverage on the Brazilian Amazon: https://econ.st/3NnFA2l
Why the world should pay to conserve rainforests: https://econ.st/48gfnuW
Latin America could lead the way on green power: https://econ.st/41hWHbA
- Title
- Who made millions from the attack on Israel?
- Runtime
- 2:52
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In the days before the October 7th attack short selling of Israeli stocks spiked in New York, making someone a lot of money. How likely is it that a Hamas insider was behind it?
00:00 - Pre-war stock market changes
00:33 - What happened to the stocks?
01:03 - Who was behind it?
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Read our coverage on Israel and Hamas: https://econ.st/46Ka8Cy
Did Hamas make millions trading the October 7th attacks?: https://econ.st/4822Zyd
Inside Hamas’s sprawling financial empire: https://econ.st/483x94b
- Title
- Can AI help weather forecasting save lives?
- Runtime
- 11:31
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- As global warming makes weather more extreme and deadly, accurate and accessible weather forecasting has never been more needed.
00:00 - Hurricane Otis
00:40 - Extreme weather
01:33 - Democratic Republic of Congo
02:38 - Problems with forecasting
04:25 - Innovative solutions
05:41 - Arrival of AI
07:30 - Smallholder farmers
09:30 - Early warning systems
Read about the high-tech race to improve weather forecasting: https://econ.st/4a1pqpo
Listen to how new technology will make weather forecasting fit for the 21st century: https://econ.st/3uLWXDu
Why the world’s poor need to know about weather disasters ahead of time: https://econ.st/3QZkaJV
Will global average temperatures pass a threshold in 2024? https://econ.st/46EP0xn
Subscribe to The Economist: https://econ.st/3uwzp5y
How to predict record-shattering weather events: https://econ.st/46CGAq7
- Title
- How green is the energy revolution really?
- Runtime
- 20:12
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- We hear a lot about the need to get off fossil fuels. How is the energy transition really going and how fast is the world moving towards a green future?
00:51 How did the war in Ukraine impact the green revolution?
05:50 Why is green energy booming in unlikely places?
08:31 Rewiring the world for net zero
11:40 Is nuclear energy making a comeback?
14:20 Texas: the anti-green future of clean energy
18:09 Do environmentalists need to change?
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3s9WjPB
Read our quarterly report on electric grids: https://econ.st/3SnGejK
War and subsidies have turbocharged the green transition: https://econ.st/47h2vnO
Renewable energy has hidden costs: https://econ.st/3SlLww7
Listen to our podcast about whether the energy crisis could fuel the green transition:
https://econ.st/47gBX5X
Watch our film about heatwav...
- Title
- What’s wrong with lockdown drills for school shootings?
- Runtime
- 3:51
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- To teach students how to protect themselves from an active shooter most American schools run lockdown drills – but could they do more harm than good?
00:00 - What are lockdown drills?
00:43 - When did lockdowns become widespread?
01:25 - What are the national guidelines?
01:47 - The impact on children
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Read our full investigation: https://econ.st/477yzLd
Inside America’s hoax school shootings epidemic: https://youtu.be/NPlLrBN48kQ?si=b3bVneE00kFdHT62
Why some teachers in America are learning how to fire guns: https://youtu.be/0PtJ45jHing?si=Xb9ckrwvhgNOiIDb
One response to school shootings in America: arm the teachers: https://econ.st/3u1KzPm
A report sheds light on the deadliest school shooting in Texas’s history: https://econ.st/3FWoe8Z
The AR-15 is a symbol of liberty or loss, depending ...
- Title
- Why some teachers in America are learning how to fire guns
- Runtime
- 4:46
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Gun crime in American schools is increasing–but does training teachers how to shoot make classrooms any safer?
00:00 - Is arming teachers the solution?
00:50 - Meet the teachers learning to shoot
01:55 - Why they want to learn
03:17 - How effective is the training?
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Read our full investigation: https://econ.st/477yzLd
Inside America’s hoax school shootings epidemic: https://youtu.be/NPlLrBN48kQ?si=L8F1fnhkcR7jAHlE
One response to school shootings in America: arm the teachers: https://econ.st/3u1KzPm
A report sheds light on the deadliest school shooting in Texas’s history: https://econ.st/3FWoe8Z
Guns are the things most likely to kill young people in America: https://econ.st/479FrXN
The spate of gun violence shows American exceptionalism at its worst: https://econ.st/49bZPJL
...
- Title
- Hoax school shootings: inside America's epidemic
- Runtime
- 10:02
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In America the fear of gun crime in schools is being weaponised. More and more SWAT teams are having to respond to hoax calls about school shootings.
00:00 - America’s hoax school shooting crisis
01:07 - Hoax calls are becoming more commonplace
02:00 - Aspen Elementary School
03:29 - What happened on February 22nd 2023?
05:10 - Who was behind it?
07:35 - The fight against SWAT hoax calls
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Read our full investigation: https://econ.st/477yzLd
Why some teachers in America are learning how to fire guns: https://youtu.be/0PtJ45jHing?si=fBZbTiT2gaD-9n2U
One response to school shootings in America: arm the teachers: https://econ.st/3u1KzPm
A report sheds light on the deadliest school shooting in Texas’s history: https://econ.st/3FWoe8Z
The AR-15 is a symbol of liberty or loss, depending on whom you a...
- Title
- Trump’s trials: How much jeopardy is he really in?
- Runtime
- 5:43
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Accusations of election manipulation and the mishandling of classified documents are just a few of the criminal charges former President Donald Trump faces across four criminal trials as the race for the White House gets underway. But is he really in jeopardy or will he succeed in turning his legal woes to his political advantage?
00:00 - How much jeopardy is Trump really in?
00:31 - The cases
03:05 - The risks
04:02 - Trump’s campaign
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Donald Trump’s second term would be a protectionist nightmare: https://econ.st/45RSnR7
Part of Donald Trump’s base thinks he is fighting a spiritual war: https://econ.st/45URg31
A Trump Party in the Reagan Library: https://econ.st/3tWB2cv
Donald Trump is found liable for fraud in his real-estate dealings: https://econ.st/3tU6zvI
Why some GOP candidates don’t act as ...
- Title
- What happens to your brain as you age
- Runtime
- 8:46
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- As the most complex organ in your body, your brain changes radically throughout your life. Starting from before birth and continuing even after you've died. This is what happens to your brain as you age.
00:00 - What happens to your brain when you age?
00:32 - In the womb
01:03 - Childhood
03:19 - Teenage years
04:48 - Early adulthood
05:27 - Middle age
07:04 - Later life
07:36 - Death
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Is there a genetic link between endometriosis and the brain?: https://econ.st/46u9Q31
Even doctors can struggle to diagnose concussions: https://econ.st/3RlFfQP
Artificial brains are helping scientists study the real thing: https://econ.st/3Plo6UN
A big advance in mapping the structure of the brain: https://econ.st/48sx6jJ
Studying broken chromosomes can illuminate neuroscience: https://econ.st/3rff...
- Title
- Is Israel breaking the rules of war?
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The Economist’s defence editor Shashank Joshi spoke to legal experts to find out whether Israel’s response to Hamas’s terrorist attack is lawful.
00:00 - Is Israel breaking the rules of war?
00:59 - Blockade
01:32 - Bombardment
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Is Israel acting within the laws of war?: https://econ.st/3tzVBv7
Joe Biden steers a risky course after a Gaza hospital blast: https://econ.st/3ty6RIl
Mapping Israel’s war in Gaza: https://econ.st/3M5xECv
Hamas tunnels under Gaza will be a key battlefield for Israel: https://econ.st/490c8ZG
To save Palestinian lives in Gaza, open the crossing into Egypt: https://econ.st/3M3PzJu
A short history of Gaza: https://econ.st/408EJYR
Israel faces the danger of fighting on a second front: https://econ.st/3twmikn
Will Israel’s agony and retributi...
- Title
- Are artificial wombs the future?
- Runtime
- 7:01
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Scientists are hoping to build the world’s first clinically approved artificial womb. The purpose is to save the lives of more premature babies.
00:00 The dangers of premature birth
01:49 How to build an artificial womb
04:17 How does it work?
05:54 When will artificial wombs be rolled out?
Sign up to The Economist’s weekly science newsletter: https://econ.st/46wOpyv
Read our full quarterly report on fertility: https://econ.st/3S1LZnj
Watch our film about the booming surrogacy industry: https://econ.st/3QfjpgX
How to build an artificial womb https://econ.st/3PRLFEW
“Reproductive techno-horror” is a burgeoning genre on screen https://econ.st/3tsEf3t
New ways of making babies are on the horizon https://econ.st/45u8fsM
Mouse “embryoids” can now be grown from stem cells https://econ.st/3tAzZyB
Watch more of our Now & Next series https:/...
- Title
- Can Netanyahu's leadership survive the war?
- Runtime
- 2:41
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Many Israelis blame Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for failing to stop Hamas’ terrorist attack. Can his leadership survive the war and its fallout?
00:28 - What will the war do to Netanyahu?
00:52 - Government’s absence
01:20 - Protests
01:52 - Positive changes
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletters: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Read about how Hamas’ atrocities and Israel’s retaliation will change both sides forever: https://econ.st/3Qq13tL
Will Israel’s agony and retribution end in chaos or stability? https://econ.st/3rP3OuS
Find out what brutal urban warfare awaits Israel’s army in Gaza: https://econ.st/46O8vUB
Israel faces a danger from Hizbullah on its second front: https://econ.st/46LzL6j
Read about Israel’s call to evacuate from northern Gaza: https://econ.st/46tyRLY
Watch a discussion on Israel and Gaza: the attacks, politics and its impli...
- Title
- How powerful is Hamas?
- Runtime
- 1:59
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- On October 7th Hamas fighters launched a surprise attack on Israel and slaughtered more than 1,300 people, mostly civilians. What is Hamas and how powerful is it?
00:00 - What is Hamas?
00:55 - Hamas’s control of Gaza
01:18 - Growth of Hamas military capacity
01:32 - The latest attack on Israel
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Hamas’s attack was the bloodiest in Israel’s history: https://econ.st/3ts3qD3
A short history of Gaza: https://econ.st/408EJYR
As war looms Israel calls for 1.1m people to evacuate northern Gaza: https://econ.st/3RZF1za
Israel faces the danger of fighting on a second front: https://econ.st/3twmikn
Will Israel’s agony and retribution end in chaos or stability?: https://econ.st/48RGPQI
Netanyahu wages war and fights for his own survival: https://econ.st/3Q0xDku
Hamas’s attack was...
- Title
- Who is polluting the ocean with plastic?
- Runtime
- 16:18
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Plastic pollution is destroying ocean life and coastal livelihoods. With small island states suffering most, what do they reveal about how to solve this global problem?
00:00 The plastic problem
00:43 What challenges do small islands face?
02:48 Where is the plastic coming from?
07:47 How are small islands combating plastic pollution?
11:13 How is plastic waste managed? / Where does plastic end up?
12:30 Future solutions
14:31 The global plastic treaty
Sign up to our weekly science newsletter to keep up to date: https://econ.st/3dMaWBt
The world’s waste problem is growing fast: https://econ.st/3LAZmXd
Watch our film on how chemical pollution is suffocating the sea: https://econ.st/3rLOW0f
Making trade greener: https://econ.st/46WQaVJ
Watch our film on ocean acidification: https://econ.st/46G1ZPG
- Title
- Israel and the Palestinians: a century of conflict
- Runtime
- 2:56
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A brutal attack on Israel by Hamas has spectacularly reignited the long-running conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. We look back over a century of hostilities.
00:00 - Israel is at war
00:19 - What was the Balfour Declaration?
00:36 - The British Mandate
01:12 - Establishment of the State of Israel
02:04 - West Bank and Gaza since 1967
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
After its brutal attack, Hamas is calculating its next move: https://econ.st/3trRKAt
Hamas’s attack was an Israeli intelligence failure on multiple fronts: https://econ.st/3Q9Rgrp
Hamas’s carnage upends Joe Biden’s plans for the Middle East: https://econ.st/46HDHov
Israeli hostages now face a terrifying ordeal: https://econ.st/3RP81ta
The lessons from Hamas’s assault on Israel: https://econ.st/46zasEA
Israel reels as Hamas launches a s...
- Title
- How different languages are accommodating non-binary people
- Runtime
- 2:22
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In a world where over a third of all languages use gender-specific grammar, non-binary people are looking for innovative solutions.
00:09 - Being gender-neutral in English
00:17 - The problem posed by grammatical gender
00:43 - Innovative solutions
Read Johnson, The Economist’s language column: https://econ.st/3rwxcpF
Find out why you have an accent in a foreign language: https://econ.st/48skXLr
Watch our film on how to sound like a local when you speak a foreign language: https://econ.st/465vQ4l
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletters: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Sign up to 1843’s newsletter, The Extraordinary Story: https://econ.st/3OdEkys
Read more about how languages with grammatical gender handle non-binary people: https://econ.st/464gLQh
Find out which languages take the longest to learn? https://econ.st/48mwdsG
Read about why God’s pronouns ar...
- Title
- Longevity: can ageing be reversed?
- Runtime
- 15:54
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Ageing has always been inevitable but fasting, epigenetic reprogramming and parabiosis are just some of the scientific techniques that seem to help people stay young. Might the Peter Pan dream become real?
00:00 - Can science turn back the clock?
01:01 - Centenarians
02:51 - What is ageing?
04:51 - Dietary restriction
06:00 - Roundworms
07:55 - Epigenetics
09:43 - Blood and guts
11:40 - Senolytics
12:38 - Metformin
13:51 - Anti-ageing treatments are coming
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Read the Technology Quarterly on longevity: https://econ.st/462fqto
Christian Californians may have a solution to America’s obesity: https://econ.st/3EC4GG9
How to eat to 100: https://econ.st/3EwQTAq
Who wants to live forever? Quite a lot of people: https://econ.st/3LjHBMh
Is longevity more than a billionaire’s pip...
- Title
- Can Ukraine's DIY drones defeat Russia?
- Runtime
- 3:53
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In garages, bedrooms and workshops across Ukraine a small army of amateur enthusiasts has emerged to build and adapt drones capable of taking the fight to the Russians. We explain how the war created this cottage industry, and what motivates the people behind it.
00:00 - Ukraine’s drone war
00:47 - The army of volunteers
03:03 - Ukrainian drone success
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
An interview with the head of Ukraine’s defence intelligence: https://econ.st/3Pt9PW3
1843: The “crazy professors” making drones for Ukraine: https://econ.st/3rcsU6V
Ukraine faces a long war. A change of course is needed: https://econ.st/46mmiS4
Ukraine’s latest weapons in its war with Russia: 3D-printed bombs: https://econ.st/3rbhS1K
Ukraine is betting on drones to strike deep into Russia: https://econ.st/3sXkQqZ
How racing drones are use...
- Title
- Why the baby business is booming
- Runtime
- 25:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The business of surrogacy is growing fast, as fertility rates fall and demand from gay parents rises. This global trade has a dark underbelly, and needs policing.
00:51 America: putting a price on family
05:32 What’s driving demand?
07:52 How did surrogacy become a global trade?
11:30 Surrogacy’s dark underbelly
16:49 How can surrogacy be better regulated?
21:10 What’s in the child’s best interest?
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Read our full quarterly report on fertility: https://econ.st/44YZqqD
The fertility sector is booming: https://econ.st/3rntoHm
Surrogacy reform is spreading in the rich world: https://econ.st/46jxFdK
Watch more of our Now & Next series https://econ.st/46f9mgU OR https://econ.st/3PrywBZ
Listen to our podcast about Britain’s proposed surrogacy law reforms: https://econ.st/44Wcayl
- Title
- Where can Americans afford to live solo? We developed the “Carrie Bradshaw index” to find out
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Title
- Kenneth Cukier explains why your data is “meaningless” on its own #Data #AI #podcast
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- We are launching a new subscription for podcasts. To hear more from “Money Talks” and access the whole range of our podcasts, including exclusive episodes and series, become a subscriber to Economist Podcasts+
- Title
- What will AI be capable of in five years? We asked Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind #AI
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Title
- Yuval Noah Harari believes AI is the end of human-dominated history #AI #artificialintelligence
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Title
- Winning the long war in Ukraine
- Runtime
- 6:06
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Ukraine is bracing for a long war. Can the country ensure that Western aid keeps flowing as the fight extends into 2024—and possibly beyond?
00:00 - How should Ukraine prepare for a future at war?
00:29 - A long war
01:46 - Drones open a front in Russia
03:53 - Attrition
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Why is Vladimir Putin looking to North Korea for arms?: https://econ.st/3rkFeBN
How the Pentagon assesses Ukraine’s progress: https://econ.st/45QDvDw
Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?: https://econ.st/3rmygw6
How could FPV drones change warfare?: https://econ.st/465VN3c
How soon will Ukraine be able to use its F-16s?: https://econ.st/46bEcXO
The jury is still out on Ukraine’s big push south: https://econ.st/3Loy5Ho
The Ukrainian army commits new forces in a big southward push: https...
- Title
- AI and our future with Yuval Noah Harari and Mustafa Suleyman
- Runtime
- 8:45
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The Economist brought together Yuval Noah Harari and Mustafa Suleyman to grapple with the biggest technological revolution of our times. They debate the impact of AI on our immediate futures, how the technology can be controlled and whether it could ever have agency.
00:00 - Harari and Suleyman discuss the future of AI
00:51 - What will the world look like in 2028?
03:35 - Is AI comparable to an alien invasion?
06:22 - The importance of regulation
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Watch the full interview here: https://econ.st/48ajUzL
Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation: https://econ.st/3PDyFUz
Yuval Noah Harari argues that what’s at stake in Ukraine is the direction of human history: https://econ.st/3sRFNDF
How scientists are using artificial intelligence: https://econ.st/3PkMRAc
How ar...
- Title
- Why is Argentina’s economy such a mess?
- Runtime
- 13:11
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies. How did it end up like this?
00:00 - Argentina’s economy is in crisis
01:21 - What is happening now?
04:16 - Why is this happening?
05:52 - Overspending
07:00 - Printing money
08:03 - Borrowing money
08:51 - Trade controls
11:06 - What are the solutions?
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Meet Javier Milei, the front-runner to be Argentina’s next president: https://econ.st/3L9zKkk
Javier Milei would be a danger for democracy in Argentina: https://econ.st/45F8Ys1
Argentina is pushing international lending to its breaking point: https://econ.st/3qKfDSN
Argentina could get its first libertarian president: https://econ.st/3L47T4K
Annual inflation of 114% is pushing Arg...
- Title
- Is a degree worth the money?
- Runtime
- 2:23
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- These days higher education can feel like a risky investment. Here are The Economist’s tips on how to make your degree worth the money.
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Read more about whether it is worth going to university: https://econ.st/43fAo6x
For our summer reads: https://econ.st/43fRtgY
Listen to our podcast, Money Talks counting the cost of education: https://econ.st/44oP3ME
Why affirmative action in American universities had to go: https://econ.st/3YYtEsv
The university lottery: https://econ.st/45yC50b
American universities have an incentive to seem extortionate: https://econ.st/3OTBDT6
Muddled policies are harming British universities: https://econ.st/3PfIGqv
- Title
- What fuels Zuckerberg's fight?
- Runtime
- 6:45
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, is one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. His position seems unassailable, so why does he run his business empire as though it’s under constant threat?
00:00 - Who is Mark Zuckerberg?
00:58 - How did we get here?
01:31 - What are his successes?
03:15 - What are his failures?
04:50 - What does the future look like?
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Meta’s Threads app has better odds of usurping Twitter than previous clones had:
https://econ.st/45rKy4U
The Musk-Zuckerberg social-media smackdown: https://econ.st/44UYhB1
Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?:
https://econ.st/3OXEdsn
Big tech and the pursuit of AI dominance:
https://econ.st/45vVwGx
How digital gaming spreads far and wide:
https://econ.st/3QCNg3r
Things are looking up for M...
- Title
- Why you have an accent in a foreign language
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Ever wondered why it's so hard to sound like a local when you go on holiday? Discover the pronunciation tips your teachers may have missed.
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Why you have an accent in a foreign language: https://econ.st/3YACr3Q
The Economist’s summer reads: https://econ.st/3OXjvJb
- Title
- The future of money: three ways to go cashless
- Runtime
- 7:34
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Non-cash payments are on the rise all over the world. Our writers explain how digital technology has changed the way consumers shop in three important markets: America, China and India.
00:00 Cashless transactions are on the rise
00:18 America: account and card
02:01 India: Unified Payment Interface
04:06 China: App payments
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Read our Special Report on digital finance: https://econ.st/3NE6yCb
Leader: The fight over the future of global payments
https://econ.st/3PNAKxs
Why Asia’s super-app companies are stuck in a rut: https://econ.st/3JL7W4Q
Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?
https://econ.st/3NHlxv7
Do Alipay and Tenpay misuse their market power?
https://econ.st/3NIE0aU
- Title
- The secret weapon that sank Russia’s warship
- Runtime
- 2:17
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- How did Ukraine’s virtually non-existent navy sink the Moskva, the most advanced Russian vessel in the Black Sea?
Unveiling how Ukraine sunk the Moskva: https://econ.st/3OI3iHZ
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
For more stories from 1843: https://econ.st/3NZFsG2
Read our coverage from the war in Ukraine: https://econ.st/3YhCC3V
How did Ukraine destroy the Moskva?: https://econ.st/43UkcY9
- Title
- Who is Elon Musk and what drives him?
- Runtime
- 8:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- As a new Elon Musk biography raises troubling questions about his role in the Ukraine war, our film asks what drives this ceaseless entrepreneur.
00:00 - Who is Elon Musk?
00:58 - How did we get here?
01:54 - What are his successes?
04:56 - What are his failures?
07:21 - What does the future look like?
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Walter Isaacson’s book charts the wayward path of Elon Musk: https://econ.st/3rawNsR
The Musk-Zuckerberg social-media smackdown: https://econ.st/44UYhB1
Elon Musk, Twitter and an epic case of buyer’s remorse: https://econ.st/44P0Lkm
Elon Musk is taking Twitter’s “public square” private: https://econ.st/3OqLLnd
Elon Musk’s challenge to management thinking: https://econ.st/3Y7UXAs
How SpaceX set off a new race to commercialise space: https://econ.st/3DpnAzx
Despite...
- Title
- Why do so many women tear their anterior cruciate ligament? We explain
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Title
- The biggest bank heist in history (and why you've never heard of it)
- Runtime
- 18:17
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In 2022 news broke that $2.5bn had been stolen in Iraq, the biggest bank heist ever. Nicolas Pelham, The Economist's Middle East correspondent, follows the money
01:41 - The investigation begins
02:28 - Where did the money come from?
03:55 - Who was Nur Zuheir?
04:29 - Following the trail in Baghdad
08:11 - Corruption in Iraq
13:21 - The government changes course
15:46 - Who is complicit, really?
16:50 - What happened to the money?
Artwork based on illustrations by Mike McQuaid
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Sign up to 1843’s newsletter, The Extraordinary Story: https://econ.st/3OdEkys
The Baghdad job: who was behind history’s biggest bank heist? https://econ.st/44KnMoM
After 20 years of trauma, Iraq is struggling to recover:
https://econ.st/4757kBo
“What was once the world’s most dangerous road ...
- Title
- Israeli democracy: what does the right wing want?
- Runtime
- 4:22
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- After months of protest over reforms to the judicial system, many Israelis fear democracy is under threat. As the crisis grows, we explore what exactly Binyamin Netanyahu’s government is trying to achieve, and who is actually in charge of the chaos-stricken country.
00:00 - what does the Israeli right want?
00:59 - why the latest bill threatens democracy in Israel
02:00 - who is really in charge?
02:35 - the long term goals of the Israeli right
Why the latest bill threatens the state of Israel’s democracy: https://econ.st/44KCr3q
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
For more stories on the Middle East & Africa: https://econ.st/3QhDSlt
Israel’s 75th anniversary: https://econ.st/3Qw4krV
More on Israel’s constitutional crisis: https://econ.st/3KeHwbY
Violence over the West Bank escalates: https://econ.st/43CUeYY
Israeli vi...
- Title
- Inside El Salvador’s war on crime
- Runtime
- 6:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- President Nayib Bukele’s brutal crackdown on crime has dramatically reduced the murder rate and won him favour with the public, but what’s the true cost of his war on gangs? The Economist’s deputy editor, Robert Guest, reports from El Salvador on how Bukele is using the fight against crime to amass power.
00:00 - Inside president Bukele’s crackdown
02:25 - How the public and the prisoners’ families have reacted
03:55 - El Salvador’s security minister on fair trials
05:13 - How Bukele is amassing power
Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and remain popular: https://econ.st/470cYVo
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
For more stories from the Americas: https://econ.st/3NZFsG2
Young Latin Americans are unusually open to autocrats: https://econ.st/3DktqSH
What the world’s budding autocrats can learn from El Salvador: https://eco...
- Title
- What causes inflation and why can it damage the economy?
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
