Motherboard
Season 2012
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As technology advances, the world is always changing. "Motherboard" uncovers stories around the world that help show what is coming next, with new technologies, cultures and discoveries helping to reshape the planet. From real-life cyborgs to guns that can aim themselves, this docuseries illustrates what is waiting for us and why it makes the future both wonderful and terrifying.
Where to Watch Motherboard • Season 2012
8 Episodes
- Who Killed America's Biggest Gadget?E4
Who Killed America's Biggest Gadget? The hunt for the Higgs boson, god particle or goddamn particle, the one that gives things mass, came closer to an end on July 4. Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the world's largest particle accelerator, found evidence of the particle and its energy field. But the LHC didn't do it alone. The search has been a massive, costly and unprecedented international effort that began thousands of miles away, at another atom smasher beneath the Illinois prairie. - How I Got Famous on The InternetzE5
How I Got Famous on The InternetzBad, that is, in the Michael Jackson sense. ROFLCon, the brainchild of a few Harvard undergraduates, is a biennial gathering of the Internet's foremost makers of viral memes, their hardcore fanboys, and the net researchers who get excited about them (with a hefty dose of chin-rubbing, no doubt). - Drone On: the Future of UAV Over the USE6
Drone On: the Future of UAV Over the US From military weapons expos in Jordan to idyllic SoCal beaches, we caught up with some of those who are building and selling unmanned aerial vehicles all over the world, and even convinced a few companies to let us take their flying spy robots for a spin. - Oscar Niemeyer 101E7
Oscar Niemeyer 101The man who created Brazil's crazy space-age moon-capital. Oscar Niemeyer - an ardent communist and proponent of modern architecture who, alongside his buddy Le Corbusier, had co-designed the UN building in New York - to build a crazy spacepod city in the middle of the planalto. - Behind the Scenes of Alan Moore's "Jimmy's End"E8
Behind the Scenes of Alan Moore's "Jimmy's End" Many of Alan Moore's comics have been adapted for the big screen, but not many of them have met with his approval. So he went and wrote his own screenplay, the first one he's ever written, which turned into the film Jimmy's End. Pairing up with director Mitch Jenkins they've created an experience not unlike Moore's celebrated Watchmen--a rich, multilayered film with a narrative that will reward repeat viewings and will live on beyond the rectangular box of the screen, spilling out into the real world.