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How is technology impacting our humanity? With host Caterina Fake, Should This Exist? is a show that looks at a technology and asks: What is its greatest potential? And what could possibly go wrong?

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Or is psychedelic therapy too good to be true?

Can we trip our way to better mental health?

What if nuclear power plants couldn’t melt down?

Nuclear power in a six-pack

Emergency medicine for the climate?

Cloud brightening for climate fever

Would you trade a failing kidney for a bionic one?

The promise of bioartificial organs

What happens when we unplug?

A world without our devices

How to improve the standardized test?

Could this game replace the SAT?

Can real trauma be treated with virtual reality?

VR vs. PTSD

Can we reverse aging, or avoid Alzheimer’s, with transfusions?

Young blood / old brains

Can robots provide a human touch for elderly people?

Grandma, here’s your robot

Can we track Covid-19 without tracking people?

Contact tracing: So promising. So invasive

Can you trust what you see?

The deepfake detective

New season begins October 14

Trailer: Season 2 of Should This Exist?

The utopia and the dystopia.

What went wrong with the world wide web – and how we can fix it

What if you could live to 200?

How to hack your way out of aging

A future where animal products come from cell cultures.

The next gen of meat will be grown in a lab

A new tech can change your voice – to anything you want.

What if you could Photoshop your voice?