The Future This Week: Androids Dream of More Than Electric Sheep

In The Future This Week, Serious Wonder launches itself into the virtual world in search of this week’s headlines of the future, from PTSD vaccines to androids having “dreams”. If we’re to base any conclusion from this week’s headlines, it’s that the future is nothing short of amazing. Possible vaccines that’ll cure PTSD, steel bridges that are being 3D printed, and even artificially intelligent neural networks designing “dreamscape” artwork.

If Philip K. Dick were to still be alive to witness everything we’ve achieved thus far, I’m sure he’d be overwhelmed with both awe and amazement. Science fiction is finally turning into science fact as we fast approach a new technological era of the 21st century – a future that is only limited by our own imagination. What a time to be alive! Welcome to the future!

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the BrainPort V100 – a gadget that researchers claim will help blind people to “see” using their tongues. SOURCE

Dutch construction company Heijmans has recently unveiled its latest project: to 3D print a steel pedestrian bridge in Amsterdam using multi-axis industrial robots. SOURCE

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New studies, which have been published in the international journal Nature, are suggesting a near-future application of vaccinations to help treat or even prevent PTSD in soldiers. SOURCE

Google has recently revealed several images that were created by an artificial neural network by analyzing several different objects and attempting to differentiate the objects from one another, designing very artistic “dreamscapes” as a result! SOURCE