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教育广播公司（纽约的WNET）正在开发和制作一个探索尖端技术的新的公共电视项目。 该项目包括一个每小时八集的广播部分;六个60秒的“迷你节目”;一个万维网部分;以及针对25-39岁及以上成年人的广泛教育推广。 第一季八个节目的主题是：替代品-假体装置和生物电子人造身体部件寻找夏娃-解码人类基因组的竞赛世纪之光-光纤纳米技术-材料的分子操纵技术间谍-用于获得信息的技术体育技术-追求更好的设备和训练制度人工智能-努力创造计算机模仿人类智能适当的技术-技术，使用当地的，廉价的材料贝丝霍普，WNET的科学计划主任将担任该系列的执行制片人。 每个节目都将由WNET选择的独立制片人制作。 内容顾问包括：Angela Christiano，哥伦比亚大学皮肤科、遗传学和发育系; Sheila Sen Jasanoff，哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院; Horace弗里兰Judson，近代科学史中心;乔治华盛顿大学; Michio Kaku，纽约市立大学理论物理学家和探索广播系列节目主持人; Wilfred Pinfold，英特尔公司微处理器研究实验室;以及美国宇航局喷气推进实验室首席技术专家芭芭拉·威尔逊

The Educational Broadcasting Corporation (WNET in New York) is developing and producing a new public television project exploring cutting-edge technology. The project consists of an eight-part hourly broadcast component; six 60-second "mini-programs;" a World Wide Web component; and extensive educational outreach targeted to adults aged 25-39 and older. The topics for the eight programs in season one are: Replacements - prosthetic devices and biologically electronic artificial body parts In Search of Eve - the race to decode the human genome Light of the 21st Century - Fiber Optics Nanotechnology - molecular manipulation of materials Technospy - technologies used to gain information Sports Technology - the pursuit of better equipment and training regimes Artificial Intelligence - efforts to create computers the mimic human intelligence Appropriate Technologies - technologies that use local, inexpensive materialBeth Hoppe, WNET's Director of Science Programs will serve as Executive Producer for the series. Each of the programs would be produced by an independent producer selected by WNET. Content advisors include: Angela Christiano, Departments of Dermatology, Genetics and Development, Columbia University; Sheila Sen Jasanoff, Harvard University JFK School of Government; Horace Freeland Judson, Center for History of Recent Science, George Washington University; Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, CUNY and host, Explorations radio series; Wilfred Pinfold, Microprocessor Research Labs, Intel Corp.; and Barbara Wilson, chief technologist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory