- Title: Things To Come
- Date: 21st June 1990
- Summary: Visiophone; artists all over world will be able to link up by this technology. The home is not safe (from cleaning materials to electro-magnetic fields caused by video/hi fi). Dr Jean Munro says that this could mean 'the demise of our species by the end of the 2lst century. The Genome Project is linking up scientists throughout the world in an attempt to produce a complete genetic map of the human being. In the USA the programme talks to Dr Jack Bartley at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and considers the incredible implications for a world in which it might be possible to create human beings to a precisely chosen genetic pattern, controlling everything from hair and eye colour, through physical shape and size, to brain capacity, temperament and patterns of behaviour.
- Description:Youth magazine programme,with international possibilities,about the future.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Inca (London) Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 7
- Transmission Date:21/06/1990
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s