New PBS Documentary Focuses on a More Hopeful Future

The PBS documentary series A Brief History of the Future was an idea whose germination accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

“Right around the time that the pandemic was hitting us, I realized that most of the narratives and stories about the future were based in doom and gloom, right?” said Ari Wallach, co-executive producer and host. “I call it big dystopia.”

^{Ari Wallach talks with Karen Washington, a farmer in Chester, New York. BetterTomorrows}

Wallach is a futurist who has been investigating our planet for years, trying to determine “what does a flourishing society look like on a thriving ecologically-sound planet Earth.” One way to explore this idea was to travel with a film crew and document positive impacts around the globe. Wallach and his team visit a kelp farmer in New Haven, a solar farm in Morocco, a mycelium entrepreneur in New York…