The Future This Week: NEO, GM Mosquitoes, and Artificial Animals

In The Future This Week, Serious Wonder wanders out into a cyberpunk landscape in search of this week’s headlines of the future, from genetically modified mosquitoes combating dengue to a documentary on the internationally growing Transhumanist movement. This week we’re given a glimpse of the future under multiple mediums: from the fictional perspective of a video game based in a somewhat distant cyberpunk world and the other from our nonfictional shores, whereby the animals swimming within might just be robotic.

Whether we’re transforming our own species using advanced science and technology or are transforming every other species which preside on this planet, we’re in for a future where nothing is what it seems and the concept of “impossibility” is quickly usurped by a world where anything and everything is possible. We’re in for a very strange ride, but it’s one that we’ll have to take together. Welcome to the future!

Although very early in its development, creators of third-person solo adventure game, currently titled HK, has been revealed, showing what appears to be you playing as a cat exploring a somewhat distant cyberpunk future filled with humanoid robots and grime. SOURCE

After releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in a town in Brazil, research results have now come in with a resounding success, showing the GM mosquitoes to have effectively reduce cases of dengue by more than 90% within just a single year’s time. SOURCE

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A group of filmmakers have announced an upcoming documentary titled NEO, which has partnered up with Humanity+ and IEET, and will document the growing international movement known as Transhumanism. SOURCE

A team of diverse scientists have revealed what can only be described as the first artificial animal – a lifelike robotic stingray coupled with artificial intelligence, allowing it to perfectly mimic its biological predecessor. SOURCE