The Future This Week: Cloud Cities & Hyperloop Transports

In The Future This Week, Serious Wonder reaches into the cloud in search of this week’s headlines of the future. From the first successful mind upload of a living creature into a machine, to Elon Musk’s Hyperloop design getting ready to be constructed, sci-fi dreams are most certainly coming true!

Whether it’s mind uploading, advanced transportation systems, or another country of Earth taking their place into the cosmos, the future is becoming brighter and brighter as each year passes. For too long we’ve allowed cynical and pessimistic ideas rule our perceptions of what the future will look like. Instead, let these examples stand on their own as evidence to the contrary, where optimism and progress rules the land. Welcome to the future!

Basing their research on Elon Musk’s 57-page alpha white paper, a California-based startup named JumpStartFund, consisting of employees working for NASA, Airbus, and SpaceX, have made headlines recently claiming that they’ll be able to fully construct Musk’s theoretical Hyperloop design in only 10 years! SOURCE

Scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation have successfully launched their GSLV Mark III rocket for an experimental test flight, ejecting its sole payload of a unmanned crew module, which landed safely in the Bay of Bengal. SOURCE

A team of NASA scientists at the Langley Research Center have recently proposed plans to develop a floating “city” above Venus’ atmosphere to help future astronauts avoid the planet’s inhospitable surface conditions. SOURCE

Researchers involved in the OpenWorm project have successfully mapped out the connectome of a C. elegans worm, allowing them to reverse-engineer its entire nervous system and upload the data into a lego-robot. SOURCE

Photo Credit: NASA