Bill Gates spends five episodes chasing the questions that keep him up at night: how artificial intelligence will reshape work, why some diseases still outrun modern medicine, and whether the next energy breakthrough will arrive in time to matter.
What is What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates about?
Each installment drops the philanthropist into a different corner of applied science, sitting across from researchers, engineers, and public-health officials rather than narrating from a studio. One episode tracks a push to eliminate a stubborn infectious disease; another follows engineers racing to make clean energy cheap enough to outcompete fossil fuels. The series treats optimism as something that has to be earned by evidence, not assumed, so each stop comes with the scientists' own caveats about what could still go wrong.
About the cast
Bill Gates anchors every episode as host and interviewer, drawing on decades spent funding public-health and climate research through his foundation work rather than acting as a detached narrator.
Context & significance
Director Jason Zeldes builds the series around unscripted conversations filmed in labs, clinics, and factories across several countries, letting the specialists carry the technical detail while Gates supplies the throughline questions. The 2024 season lands at a moment when AI, pandemic preparedness, and the energy transition are all moving fast enough that a documentary risks dating quickly, and the production leans into that urgency rather than avoiding it. Rather than a single unifying case, each hour stands as its own self-contained investigation, so the through-line is the interviewer's curiosity more than a single storyline, which makes the series easy to watch out of sequence.
Watching What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates on Ktime
The series streams with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the science either way. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the platform's Farsi-language interface is built for exactly this kind of English-language documentary catalogue.