Change is hard - people have been trying and failing to reform society for generations. But what if we had to? This is a show about rebuilding the world from scratch and reimagining everything from first principles. How should we design cities? What about schools? Power grids? Prisons? Money? Or the Internet? If we were starting over, what would we do differently? Because in the aftermath of 2020, we are. This is HARD RESET.

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Inside a “Zome”: A DIY tiny home made of carbon-negative cement
Could bringing back ancient pyramid-building techniques make carbon-negative housing a reality?
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