The Future This Week: Google...Google Everywhere!

In The Future This Week, Serious Wonder straps on its interactive gloves in search of this week’s headlines of the future, from robotic cheetahs to what can only be conceived as a Google invasion. The tech giant Google has certainly made a lot of headlines this week, revealing a future that consists of virtual reality, interactive clothing, and artificial intelligence. I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords!

Whether we’re listening to music through the fabric of our clothing or having meaningful conversations with an artificial intelligence, the future is definitely entering into a realm once only conceived in science-fiction. And it would appear that Google is leading the charge towards this future of ours. If only the dystopian critics could see us now, opening their eyes at the marvelous journey we’ve set ourselves in. Welcome to the future!

Thanks to researchers at MIT’s Biomimetics Lab, their badass cheetah robot just learned a new trick – hurdle obstacles that get in their way without missing a step! SOURCE

Teaming up with GoPro, tech giant Google have plans to transform the video sharing platform YouTube into a virtual reality hub known as Jump. SOURCE

Artificial intelligence has made its latest great leap as Google’s speech recognition program known as Deep Learning now only attains an 8% error rate. SOURCE

Researchers Natasha Vita-More and Daniel Barranco have recently proven for the very first time that cryogenically-suspended worms retain memories after reanimation. SOURCE

Known as Project Jacquard, Google has unveiled its latest venture into wearable technologies by integrating interactive circuitry into the very fabric of fashionable clothing. SOURCE

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