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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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If you could learn as fast as a kid again, would you?

Halo: A headset that helps you learn faster

What happens when we remove the human therapist from therapy?

Woebot, the virtual therapist

What if your computer could read your face?

Software that detects how you feel

What if you could travel faster than the speed of sound?

Boom: The return of supersonic flight

What is the inventor’s responsibility?

When your invention becomes a weapon

What would you do to end a disease?

We can change the DNA of an entire species — in the wild

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

What if you could Photoshop your voice?

A future where animal products come from cell cultures.

The next gen of meat will be grown in a lab

What if you could live to 200?

How to hack your way out of aging

The utopia and the dystopia.

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

New season begins October 14

Trailer: Season 2 of Should This Exist?

Can you trust what you see?

The deepfake detective

Can we track Covid-19 without tracking people?

Contact tracing: So promising. So invasive

Can robots provide a human touch for elderly people?

Grandma, here’s your robot

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

Young blood / old brains

Can real trauma be treated with virtual reality?

VR vs. PTSD