The Future This Week: Tesla, Robots, and Space Tourism

In The Future This Week, Serious Wonder launches into space in search of this week’s headlines of the future, from the launch of space tourism to the ability of teaching code to our children using robots. This week we’re given a glimpse into a future that has affordable, top of the line electric vehicles to spacecrafts that are prepared to help launch humanity back into the cosmos.

We are looking at a future of which is getting closer each week we report back to you. We’re never left short of being amazed at just how incredible scientific and technological developments are increasingly popping up, day by day. Although we’re never really sure as to what will come next, one thing is definitely certain: we’re fast approaching a world of tomorrow that’ll never truly be boring, no matter who you are. Welcome to the future!

With a funding goal of $100,000, a team of experts are looking to crowdfunders on Kickstarter to help fund Codeybot – an educational robot who has the capability of teaching basic programming to kids. SOURCE

In preparation of future space flights, NASA’s Orion spacecraft has successfully completed a critical review by top agency managers and an independent team of aerospace experts. SOURCE

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally revealed the Model 3 vehicle that everyone’s been talking about, adding bold remarks alongside it, like delivering 215 miles of range at a beginning cost of just $35,000. SOURCE

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of private space company Blue Origin, has recently revealed that he and the company are making plans to start flying test engineers by 2017, and then kick off space tourist flights by 2018. SOURCE