Hello World

Hello World invites the viewer on a journey that stretches across the globe to find the inventors, scientists and technologists shaping our future. Each episode explores a different country and uncovers the ways in which the local culture and surroundings have influenced their approach to technology. Join journalist and best-selling author Ashlee Vance on a quest far beyond Silicon Valley to find the freshest, weirdest tech creations and the beautiful freaks behind them.

Explore Sweden’s magical treehouses, faceswapping robots, New Zealand’s freaky AI babies, robot exoskeletons. Learn how the constant threat of war has shaped Israel’s tech industry and Iceland’s punishing terrain inspires cutting-edge tech.

Witness the bizarre spectacle that is Russian technology. How bio-hackers, Internet playboys, and underwater drones have ignited Australia’s long-dormant tech industry. Japan’s obsessive robot inventors are creating the future. Why America’s most passionate and daring inventors have built an engineering paradise in the middle of nowhere — in the Mojave Desert. This fun and fascinating documentary will reveal to us the possibilities of future technologies that will be common in our life in a few years.