Hollywood mogul continues his fascination with Things To Come...

Steven Spielberg will work with Discovery Channel on a new mini-series that will attempt to envision the future societies of Earth. Future Earth will examine the possibilities for the way we will live (and the technology that we will use) in 25, 50 and 100 years, and is described as 'an epic mini-series', which will draw on futurists, scholars and the great thinkers or today.

Spielberg preceded production on his Philip K. Dick adaptation Minority Report (2002) with a long and very involved think-tank along similar lines, which included the likes of visual futurist Syd Mead (whose earlier work features in the illustration above), as well as scientists, writers and other conceptual artists. The results of that forum fed also into Spielberg's collaboration with Stanley Kubrick, A.I:Artificial Intelligence (2001).

Clark Bunting, president and general manager of the Discovery Channel and and president of the Science Channel says: "Steven Spielberg, his team at DreamWorks Television and DreamWorks Animation are at the top of that list. We are excited and look forward to collaborating with them on an exciting array of new nonfiction programs."

It sounds like one of the most ambitious TV projects of its kind since Carl Sagan's Cosmos in the early 1980s.

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