The Future This Week: Robots, Holograms, & Nanotechnology

In The Future This Week, Serious Wonder plunges into the organs of online media in search of this week’s headlines of the future, from nanobots to holographic computing. Whether it’s nanotechnology healing the sick or repelling water at immediate contact, or a new kind of computing that integrates holographic technology, one can’t help but notice just how more amazing the future is becoming at such an exponential rate.

From Google’s Ray Kurzweil to Planetary Resources’ Peter Diamandis, we’ve been told quite frequently to prepare ourselves for a future that’ll change so rapidly that we might just miss it at the blink of an eye. With the advent of exponential growth in information technologies, and as more and more of our technologies become information technologies in themselves, I do believe both Kurzweil and DIamandis are correct. Welcome to the future!

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have deployed, for the first time, a micro-motor powered nanobot into the digestive system of a Mouse, delivering a nano-particle into its gut tissue. SOURCE

Scientists at the University of Rochester have created a hydrophobic metal that repels water as soon as they’re in contact, due to a nanostructure that was etched on the metal using lasers. SOURCE

Microsoft has revealed their greatest invention yet, the HoloLens – a pair of glasses that users would wear and perform what is known as holographic computing, manipulating holographic objects and online content before your very eyes. SOURCE

Researchers at the Central Scientific Research Institute of Precision Engineering Tochmash, in Moscow, Russia, have revealed a Robot Biker to the Russian President Putin, which can autonomously drive around and shoot handguns at the same time. SOURCE

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