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The Future This Week: Blade Runner, VR, and Mars

By B.J. Murphy

In The Future This Week, Serious Wonder races to Mars in search of this week’s headlines of the future, from self-driving vehicles no longer requiring licensed drivers and the upcoming Blade Runner film having virtual reality content alongside it. This week we’re given a glimpse of the future where private space companies are racing towards the red planet and tech. billionaires are racing to somehow “break out” of the supposed simulation that we live in.

Whether we’re racing to other planets or we’re racing against a simulated clock of our existence, the future is fast approaching us in ways we never could’ve imagined. Our science-fiction dreams are finally manifesting into a physical mold before our very eyes. How we use these future developments, however, is another question entirely. We can either use them to help benefit all of humanity or we can use them to bring about our own destruction. Whichever we choose, it’s a decision we’re going to have to make quickly. Welcome to the future!

Mars Space Race

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In response to Elon Musk’s announcement of SpaceX’s plans to reach Mars by 2024, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has recently initiated a brand new space race by claiming that his company will reach the red planet before SpaceX. SOURCE

Blade Runner VR

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Not only has the new upcoming Blade Runner film finally been given a title – Blade Runner 2049 – but apparently Alon Entertainment is joining with Oculus to help create and distribute VR content for the film as well. SOURCE

Photo Credit: Deadline

Self-Driving Vehicles

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California’s department of motor vehicles has announced the possibility of self-driving cars no longer requiring licensed passengers, so long federal officials deem them safe enough. SOURCE

Simulation Hypothesis

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According to The New Yorker, two tech. billionaires have become so obsessed with the Simulation hypothesis that they’re now approaching scientists to help them “break out” of the simulation. SOURCE


October 8, 2016By B.J. Murphy

About the author

B.J. Murphy is the Editor and Social Media Manager of Serious Wonder. He is a futurist, philosopher, activist, author and poet. B.J. is an Affiliate Scholar for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) and an Ambassador for the robotics company Humai.

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