Mathematician Dr. Hannah Fry Tells Us What To Expect From 2021 And Beyond | The Last Leg 

Hannah Fry, absolutely lovely person.

God, her voice is just hypnotic. How is that a thing??

This fantastic mathematician taught me at university. An inspiration.

How good is it to listen to intelligent people talk.

I recommend 'The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry' for people who'd like to hear more of this lovely lady :)

Her voice is like smooth butter on my toast ears.

We should have more maths people on this show. Hannah Fry, James Grime, Matt Parker, . . . This will help.

Hannah Fry superb guest

I mean hearing her speak I feel less like the world is collapsing around me while I'm powerless to make any substantial change...so...cheers last leg. Needed this one

Please have Dr Hannah on more and next time as a proper guest. Articulate, composed, intelligent and witty enough to hold her own with professional comedians.

Her voice is so reassuring 😊

As lovely as Hannah Fry is, why is this segment set up as if she's an oracle telling us the future?

There is something very reassuring hearing someone explain what is going to happen in the future with calm confidence.

She's an absolute delight.

She MUST be in a regular section every 6 months called 'Don't panic, but...'

I'd vote for her to run this mess of a Country 😆

A truly wonderful and brave lady. I really hope you get well xx

her metaphor " when the weather starts turning " is better than all boris' put together

Hannah Fry is a delight; so bright and beautiful! Merci!

Where the hell has Dr Hannah been hiding? More please.

It's lovely of her to think the idea of wearing masks when you have a cold or cough as a courtesy to those around you is here to stay. I don't think a large amount of the western world is that courteous, quite frankly. People tend to only be concerned about what affects them directly and often don't give a shit about others, especially strangers. I'd like to be wrong about that, but experience tells me I'm not.

Is there something in the surname because Stephen Fry is a vault of knowledge as well!! She's amazing!

"I think people will politely wear masks when they have a cold." Someone underestimates the selfishness of the British population.

😂 Not seen this before, but the first event I have been to in two years was last weekend. My family and I were happily squished in with others to see Hannah Fry and Adam Rutherford!

Hannah Fry is basically my dream woman...

Hannah Fry is just wonderful - she's a regular guest on Lauren Laverne's show on BBC R6Music if you want more of her dulcet tones!

New meaning to the second hand shop!!!

Wish usa chat shows was like this. Hannah explained things so well and that British accent just put me over the top.

Very clever Lady.... Great respect for her.

Absolutely stunning discussion, such eloquent responses to the questions!

I love this lady

YOU REALLY DON'T WANT FLYING CARS. PEOPLE CAN'T HANDLE TWO DIMENSIONS!

I want Dr Fry to be the one to tell me I am dying. Her voice will make it seem ok and nothing to worry about. I think the BBC pandemic documentary is still available an iPlayer. She is awesome 😍

Thank goodness for scientists

Hannah Fry is painfully gorgeous

Love Dr Fry and love the fact that loads more people are being exposed to her awesomeness thanks to the last leg!

The problem with flying cars is that they’d turn all the bad drivers out there into bad pilots. Cars would fall on your house all the time.

People want to squish together. Reminds me of Kierkegaard’s comments about how people prefer crowds.

I think she's making half this stuff up, but it's still interesting to listen to.

Dr Fry: this time next year we’ll be able to go back to the pub and have a pint proper. Delta Variant: hold my pint.

Josh is seriously phishing for the next big stock

Talking about the glove - I could see Wolowitz from The Big Bang and his robotic hand episode

It's kinda sad to watch this in Dec 2021 and know that we haven't come along nearly as much as we'd like.

Hannah Fry is amazing in every single respect. But her intelligence is unquestioned

What a year she had ahead of her.

she's the coolest!

Good prediction…..

Love Hannah Fry 😊 love Last leg

The Roaring 20s, i like the sound of that.

Love this episode, I think this is the first time I’ve seen more than 2 women on this show at a time

Classic mistake of looking at patterns of coloration vs causation. The Spanish flu had an impact, millions died - but the roaring twenties were a result of the end of the great war, and the culmination of the advances from the industrial revolution. People now had cars and more wealth - those two factors changed cities and how people lived dramatically.

God she is gorgeous. A voice that could melt your ballbag.

Flying cars will perpetually be just over the time horizon.

I don't think people understand who technology works. I've been told an idea is 5% of the whole deal. So just because a technology exists, it doesn't make it instantly marketable.

Really interesting!

This was a Heinelein novel plot. The hands were called Waldos. And you could make them massively large or microscopic.

Shes on point

"I think some things will be out of our reach forever!" ROFL

She's well off the mark, this was Jan 2021 so in 3 months time eveything will be back to pre covid? Please. If this lady is so good at predicting future events, tell us the next 5 major events of 2022-2023 Baba Vanga. Odd how the predicting parts is vague like STD increase (young people fucking who could predict that).

noooo there's a music gig on my birthday this year i can't wait a year (but will if i have to i ain't an antimasker or any such)

Come to Fort Straya!

yeah, I'm never leaving the house without a mask again.

Maths Vs Biology. Doesn't matter how fit you are, you cannot argue that maths will out rule natural biology.

2021 gonna suck too, got it

What is it about smart women that makes them so hot ?! My celebrity crushes are Anna Fry, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Mariella Frostrup and Lucy Worsley, all very different, but all funny and sharp. I can dream, can't I ?!

Was she a runner up in the countdown selection process

Its professor Fry by the way. bcf

Wheres rutherford?

2:52 The meaning of what? Couldn't understand that .. coffee something??

I would love a dinner date with this lady and Dr Brian Cox,.

If this lasts another year there wont be any pubs and restaurants left. They will all go under

God I love her.

I'd love simply to be able to use my left hand.

I have an enormous crush on her intelligence.

Hmmm, people who say things were predictable, expected, likely etc in advance are (a) justifying a previous belief in hindsight and (b) only saying that THEIR possible scenarios came true. 50% of others were predicting the opposite. So neither were actually prescient. Both were likely. No social scientist can possibly foresee all possible circumstances of eventual outcome.

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What happened to impartiality?

This was very fun, but that Internet of Touch Glove is some Popular Science nonsense right up there with food pills, flying cars and space elevators that futurist like to keep going on about but won't happen within our lifetimes, let along the next couple years.

Intelligence and red hair. She could teach me Maths all day long. Or Math if you are an American reading this comment.

There's a warehouse in the Mojave Desert full of "UFO's". They're prototypes for flying cars that have crashed over the years. I've seen the videos of the flying suits from the early 1900's. I would love to see the videos on these monstrosities.

Don’t wear the “Billy Joel gloves” while driving!

"next time"?......

Hannah Fry, the ginger Nigella

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me ...

If you break down what a flying car is, and what we expect from them, you can see why they won't ever happen. We already have helicopters, and they're heavy, ungainly, require expertise to operate, and are just not convenient. And that's sadly the best we'll ever get from personal flying vehicles. A nice idea that just isn't practical.

I wish Sue Perkins would be less exaggerated constantly.

Flying cars? Yeah, those already exist. They're called "helicopters". And, like, we call the flying buses "planes". And if you're thinking "but those are expensive and impractical" and you've got to do things like log flight plans with air traffic control and have all those flight hours to qualify as a pilot and do you know how much jet fuel costs? Then, yeah, exactly, and why would you think that the invention of "anti-gravity engines" would somehow make this any cheaper and more affordable for everyone, use less energy (remember, Doc Brown was using nuclear fusion to power his flying DeLorean) and excuse anyone the admin of fully qualifying as a pilot and having to log your flight plans with ATC? Imagine. An event like 9/11 could be caused accidentally by a drunk or distracted flying car driver - someone texting on their phone while flying, not seeing the skyscraper in their way - and imagine the carnage of flying cars raining down over heavily populated areas, when they crash into each other or someone forgets to put enough fuel into their flying car. Imagine the little old lady, taking off from the flying car park outside her local Tesco, going straight up into the flow of flying traffic - as her spatial awareness was not the greatest when she was down on the ground in two dimensions, before they added this pesky extra dimension, where you've also got to be aware of what's above and below you too. Oh, and we know of absolutely no instance in our observations of the whole universe, where gravity doesn't always apply and that it's always, every single time, an attractive force. So add onto the expense and impracticality - and the air traffic control nightmare - the fact that "anti-gravity" might simply be physically impossible anyway - and, seriously, how much energy do you think something like that would need to run? Clue: E=mc^2. You're bending the very fabric of spacetime here to counteract its curvature and twist it in the other direction. Why would you think that would be energy-cheap and you could power it on a gallon of petrol? And, oh man, can you imagine an "anti-gravity engine" on the blink - needs to go to the garage for a tune up - that starts playing up and ends up spaghettifying the passengers, as it increases the gravity at their feet, while sending their heads off into the stratosphere at 100mph. Trust me, scientists will work out how to teleport people - quantum physicists at least have an idea of how they might do that, but "anti-gravity" is still in the "haven't got the slightest clue how that would ever work" category - before any of this will seem feasible... and, in terms of cost, you're better off just owning your own private jet. Does mostly the same job, without requiring the energy requirements of several nuclear bombs, just to take off from the Sainsbury's car park with your weekly shopping and lottery scratchcards. Some things in sci-fi are likely and possible - like we all ended up with the equivalent of Captain Kirk's "communicator" in the mobile phones in our pockets - and some things are, frankly, on the scientific side, complete fantasy. So, yeah, put "flying anti-gravity cars" in the same mental category as you put the "Jedi powers" of the space wizards in Star Wars. Those sort of things are definitely more "fi" than "sci", if you see what I'm saying.

Trumps insanity was slow to other countries, but here in the states we knew it and have been living in fear since he unbelievably was elected

Is Dr Hannah Fry single? Asking for a friend.

After only hearing Dr Hannah Fry on radio and podcasts, its SO WEIRD to put a face to the voice

This show hasn't got a leg to stand on "get it hills".

the internet glove sounds unrealistic. Also, no way in hell is a surgeon or medical board going to allow s/th like that.

Dr. Fry is overqualified for this and, indeed, government.

You are seeking guidance from....a mathematician

Didnt need to be a mathematician to predict any of that

Never used to be a fan of redheads, that's changed, big style. Erm, no, not the speccy one!

it should be illegal for someone that smart to be that funny, I mean, cmon, leave us something!

The kabal may dislike trump and is rigging tho..

They have the opportunity to speak to a very intelligent lady, and they keep throwing cheap quips and making it all about them. Shame

Hillary calling someone else a crazy narcissist?