The Future This Week: VR, Longevity, and Asteroid Mining

In The Future This Week, Serious Wonder treks into the virtual world in search of this week’s headlines of the future, from robotic surgeons to exoskeleton suits that’ll allow users to feel virtual objects. This week we’re given a glimpse into a future of which contains asteroid mining ventures and even the possibility of bringing people back from the dead. Seriously.

It’s a crazy future, but one that is increasingly becoming a reality before our very eyes. Whether we’re exploring the cosmos and mining asteroid surfaces, or we’re reaching into the virtual world and feel it touch back, reality as we know it today is soon about to change forever. There will be no turning back from this, and honestly, we’ll have no reason to turn back anyways. We’re creating a world of which is beyond our wildest imagination and is moving at an accelerating pace. Welcome to the future!

Taking the next logical step for immersive virtual reality (VR), Dexta Robotics are developing haptic exoskeleton gloves that’ll allow users to touch the virtual world and feel it push back. SOURCE

Asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Luxembourg Government to help co-fund the development and launch of asteroid mining technologies. SOURCE

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Researchers at Children’s National Health System (CNHS) and Johns Hopkins University recently unveiled the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR), which successfully completed open bowel surgery in pigs without error. SOURCE

U.S.-based Biotech company Bioquark has been given the go-ahead to begin research on bringing 20 brain-dead patients back from the dead by stimulating and regrowing neurons. SOURCE