One of my favorite blogs, io9, has been running a series of posts on “posthumanity” from both fiction and real-life. Today R.U. Sirius of h+ Magazine has a great post up about his “best-case scenario for posthumanity.” In it, he describes what his ideal vision of the future might look like, which includes open-source style [...]
Posts under ‘Futurism’
GeekDad asks: “When do the machines take over?”
Curtis Silver, better known as Wired’s “GeekDad,” looks at our current level of technological progress, where we’re set to go in the near future, and can’t help but ask when humanity is going to face Judgment Day (well, almost). While that computer was built for a particular function and with the best intentions in mind, [...]
The transhuman U.S. Navy of 2030
The Navy Times is looking at what the future holds for the wettest branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, and the sailor of 2030 could be far more enhanced than those of today, boasting surgeries and bionic implants that enable them to see in the dark or control devices through thought: Surgical enhancements may be [...]
Will we be mining the moon in the next ten years?
A feature in the Montreal Gazette examines ten predicted innovations that will take place over the next decade. Most of them are completely plausible. The full list is as follows: Lunar mining Medical miniaturization 3-D printing Smarter smart phones Cloud computing Nanotechnology Flying on algae (algae-based fuels) Living forever Biotechnology Alternative energies We’re already seeing [...]
“Failed” 2010 predictions weren’t too far off
Ahh, 2000. The dawn of a new millennium that held unlimited promise for the future. Some prognosticators and futurists seemed to expect a bit too much from the first ten years, however, and we’re now able to look back on their failed predictions and chuckle at how far off they were. Flying cars? Artificial intelligence [...]
Kurzweil: How tech will change us in the next decade
MInventor, futurist and singularitarian Ray Kurzweil has a piece in the New York Daily News about how “technology will change humanity by 2020.” These will be familiar to anyone who has read Kurzweil’s essays or books, and more or less follow the roadmap of technology development that was outlined in The Singularity is Near. Among his [...]