The Future This Week: Cortana and Aquatic Cities

In The Future This Week, Serious Wonder looks at the latest news of driverless cars, a real-life Cortana AI, and even a heart that was healed through stem-cell injections.

The University of Michigan is creating a model town to test out driverless cars in a real-life experiment. SOURCE

A new Chinese city is being designed, and it is very aquatic. SOURCE

Very soon, your smartphone will display 3D holograms on their surface. SOURCE

Microsoft developed their own version of the assistant Siri. Why not call her Cortana? SOURCE

As a new addition to The Future This Week, Serious Wonder will ask our readers what future they see occurring now. We included two submissions from readers this week. If you want to tell us what you see, read on and send us your ideas.

Everyday, the future is visible. Cities see wild skyscrapers go up. Plant-like solar panel smartphone charging stations appear in neighborhood parks. Rural communities use new technology to harvest water from the air. These are all visions of the future as they occur now.

What future do you see now? Are you obsessed with the future as much as us? Send us your best ideas, images and videos to see them on our site. Do you have a strong opinion about the visions of the future you see now? Record a 30 second video sharing your thoughts with the Serious Wonder community and we’ll put it on the site.

The best “Seeing the Future” submissions will be added to our weekend section “The Future This Week.” Contact gabriel_editor@seriouswonder.com with your submission.

There’s a product that filters potable water right from moisture in the atmosphere. SOURCE

A notable Hollywood actor was the first to receive gene therapy to repair an ailing heart. The procedure injects stem cells straight to the heart. SOURCE