A younger version of me had some pretty clear ideas about what the future might look like. Somewhere between the emergence of the internet and the...
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Living in the Future
Every now and then, some mundane thing in my daily life makes me pause and realize that I’m living in the future. Sure, there’s plenty of room for both SciFi dreams and nightmares in the future future, but lots of things today really are kind of amazing. This recurring “Living in the Future” topic explores those, along with past SciFi roots that might have inspired them.
2 techs I want to mash up
For me, the "present" is sort of permanently frozen in my mind as the mid-to-late nineties. As we drift ever onward into the future, we rob old...
Arguing with Alexa
I don't know exactly when the future got here; probably around the time smartphones became ubiquitous—definitely after widespread internet became...
(Virtually) home for the holidays
As we spend more and more of our time indoors (those of us not deemed "essential", anyway), we're seeing an uptick in what was once solely the...
Are You Ready to Upload Your Brain?
So, who's ready for the robot revolution? Will you rise up and join our new robotic masters in a shiny new machine body? Or fight to preserve...
Science gave us a cool Black Hole photo this week…now what?
So, scientists have now taken pictures of a black hole (or, to be precise, everything BUT the black hole). Dr. Katie Bouman and her team have given...