A three-part series of films shown in the award-winning series.

Tonight's first programme is introduced by Malcolm Muggeridge, who claims that 'previews of the future are invariably wrong, for one simple reason. Because in envisaging the future, we cannot but project the present.'

Whether he's right or wrong, tonight's attempts to look at the shape of things to come include: building by computer; the dance of the iron filings; a journey into the human brain; heart man Christiaan Barnard and his critics; an investigation into the possible consequences of eating Chinese food; and a short, sharp jaunt on a lunar scooter.