The Best Future Tech Documentaries

Science & Tech - 75 free documentaries about future tech.

Start with How Tech Is Breaking the Rules of Biology (25 min, Bloomberg Originals), then Inside China's Accelerating Bid for Chip Supremacy (20 min, Bloomberg Originals). All 75 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on future tech is Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku.

• How Tech Is Breaking the Rules of Biology | Posthuman with Emily Chang (25 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• Inside China's Accelerating Bid for Chip Supremacy (20 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• Amazing Invention- This Drone Will Change Everything (22 min, Mark Rober)
• Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now (18 min, Veritasium)
• How Carbon Nanotubes Will Change the World (20 min, Real Engineering)
• Reading StarCloud’s Whitepaper So You Don’t Have To (21 min, Real Engineering)
• WE USED MICROWAVES TO TAKE OUT DRONES! (33 min, Tech Ingredients)
• The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology (55 min, Veritasium)
• Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time (13 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Vortex Cannon vs Drone (21 min, Mark Rober)
• Drone Delivery Was Supposed to be the Future. What Went Wrong? (19 min, Wendover Productions)
• 2077 - 10 Seconds to the Future | Mutation (55 min, Free Documentary)
• Human Cyborg (47 min, Moconomy)
• The Future of Veritasium (18 min, Veritasium)
• Humans, Gods and Technology | VPRO documentary | 2017 (45 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Horizon Zero Dawn – The making of the game (2017) (47 min, VPRO Documentary)
• How Connecting our Brains to Computers Will Create a New Kind of Human (53 min, ENDEVR)
• I'm Happy Hermeus Let Me Upload This (36 min, Real Engineering)
• Thorium and the Future of Nuclear Energy (19 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Future of California’s Water Supply | Abandoned (44 min, VICE)
• The Future of Energy (VICE on HBO: Season 4, Episode 9) (26 min, VICE)
• Pioneers in the Desert: A Tech-Infused Road Trip (48 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• Why Did Futuristic Japan Fall Behind Digitally? | Insight (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Meet The Mayors Of Bangkok And Quezon City Fighting To Clean Up Their Cities | The Future Proofers (47 min, CNA Insider)
• 2077 - 10 Seconds to the Future | Global Estrangement (53 min, Free Documentary)
• The Economy of Tomorrow | AI Is Coming for Your Job — Sooner Than You Think (69 min, Moconomy)
• New work - The future of toil (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The Cruise Ship Industry: A floating grave? | The Future of the Cruise Industry (53 min, ENDEVR)
• The Future of Spec Ops: More Machine than Soldier? (50 min, ENDEVR)
• Is The Future Predetermined By Quantum Mechanics? (17 min, PBS Space Time)
• Humanity Will Change More In The Next 20 Years Than We Have In The Previous 3000 - Why Is This? (54 min, Spark)
• 2077 - 10 Seconds to the Future | New Nomads (57 min, Free Documentary)
• Ticket To The Future: The Evolution of Travel (52 min, Free Documentary)
• Why Do You Remember The Past But Not The Future? (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• Why The Future Of Commercial Shipping Lies In Its Past (52 min, Spark)
• Is 100% Renewable Possible By 2050? - Interconnectors (11 min, Real Engineering)
• 2077 - 10 Seconds to the Future | An Unquenchable Thirst (56 min, Free Documentary)
• Is Technology Taking Away What Makes Us Human? (55 min, Spark)
• The Future Of Cybernetic Implants | The Day of The Cyborg (43 min, Spark)
• The Future of Airliners? - Aurora D8 (11 min, Real Engineering)
• Could Technology Help Us Read Minds In The Future? | Mind Forward (52 min, Spark)
• Digital Food: The Food Industry Of Tomorrow - Docu (47 min, VPRO Documentary)
• The Future of Green Technology: Hyperloop and Solar-Powered Planes (25 min, ENDEVR)
• Hidden High Tech: Super-Technologies for the Mobility of Tomorrow (26 min, Free Documentary)
• Orkney - Islands of the Future | When Tides and Waves Become Economic Assets (52 min, Moconomy)
• Boom: The Future of Supersonic Flight? (11 min, Real Engineering)
• What Does The Future Really Have In Store For Us? (52 min, Spark)
• How To Build in 2030 (10 min, The B1M)
• How will businesses use the metaverse? (21 min, The Economist)
• Peter Diamandis: A future of Abundance - Docu - 2013 (50 min, VPRO Documentary)
• What's Actually the Plane of the Future (10 min, Wendover Productions)
• How Ancient Civilizations Predicted the Future with Astronomy (151 min, Odyssey)
• Nuclear Energy 2.0 - The Future or Dead End Technology? (48 min, ENDEVR)
• Samsoe - Islands of the Future | Energy Surplus: The Island Model That Works (52 min, Moconomy)
• How These Futuristic Vehicles Are Challenging The Limits Of Physics (145 min, Spark)
• VR Sports Could Save Mark Zuckerberg's ‘Metaverse’ (24 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• El Hierro - Islands of the Future | When Scarcity Forces Energy Innovation (52 min, Moconomy)
• What Is The Future of Food? | Ever Wondered (22 min, Spark)
• Scientists talk on the future of mankind (47 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Inside The Metaverse: How Will We Live In Virtual Reality? | Talking Point (24 min, CNA Insider)
• The RVs Of The Future: How Luxury Motor Homes Are Built (49 min, Spark)
• Making the future (47 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Meet The Mayors Of Surabaya And Chennai Racing To Save Their Cities From Flood | The Future Proofers (47 min, CNA Insider)
• The Wonderful World Of Virtual Reality | Ever Wondered (22 min, Spark)
• Art Cooking: Futurist Meat Sculpture | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios (9 min, The Art Assignment)
• How Engineers Are Trying To 3D-Print Tomorrow's Buildings | 3D Nation - Part 8/8 (22 min, CNA Insider)
• YEAR ZERO - FUTURE: What We Leave for Tomorrow | Episode 3 | Corona 2020 (65 min, ENDEVR)
• How the Future of Satellites Might Affect Life on Earth I NOVA Now (27 min, NOVA PBS Official)
• Asia Builds Resilient Economies By Leveraging Technology For The Future (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Tomorrow's trade union - VPRO documentary - 2016 (47 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Computer origami and VR - How games help science. (47 min, VPRO Documentary)
• 3D Printed Solutions For Special Needs Dog + Bespoke IEMs | 3D Nation - Part 1/8 (22 min, CNA Insider)
• Roy Harlow: Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. What is it? Will it benefit children of today and tomorrow? (60 min, Our Planet)
• The Future of Cities (18 min, Oscar Boyson)
• Banking on the Future (20 min, Geoff Dunlop)

Top-Rated Books About Future Tech

1. Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku (4/5) - View on Amazon
2. Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis - View on Amazon
3. Soonish by Kelly Weinersmith (4/5) - View on Amazon
4. The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly - View on Amazon