What If... We Could Shape Our Lives - Fate or Free Will?
As the future world faces huge changes in everything from family size to opportunities for women and length of life, how far are individuals in control? Chris Bowlby investigates.
More and more of the world can look forward to surviving into longer life. But what鈥檚 just beginning to dawn on the experts, the policymakers and billions of individuals is how all this will relate to other major changes, like women鈥檚 rights, migration and chronic disease.
How will it influence the choices we make, the way we approach the stages of life, beginning with the decision whether to have children?
In this 大象传媒 programme Chris Bowlby tests big trends predicted for the future against very personal accounts of how people shape their lives.
Last on
More episodes
Broadcasts
- Sat 9 Mar 2013 22:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sun 10 Mar 2013 03:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
Featured in...
What If...—What If..., What If... The Next Tech Billionaires
A series of programmes about what the world of the future might be like.