The Future This Week: X-Ray Vision, Hoverboards, and Robot Companions

In The Future This Week, Serious Wonder will step onto its hoverboard in search of this week’s headlines of the future, from memory prosthetics as seen on The Matrix and future robotic companions. This week we’ve witnessed a mixed unveiling of the future that’ll not only transform the biological substrate, but will subsequently transform society and how its citizens will react to it.

Whether we’re tinkering with our biology or are introducing new technological innovations that’ll help us achieve things that were only talked about in sci-fi literature, the future is most certainly just around the corner. There are some pessimists and doomsayers who’ll have you believe that the future will be dystopian nightmare, but this week tells an entirely different story. Welcome to the future!

Thanks to a group of researchers led by MIT professor Dina Katabi, x-ray vision could be in our very near future due to software which uses radio signals to recognize people through walls. SOURCE

Scientists from the University of Southern California have recently developed a memory prosthesis which is said will eventually repair long-term memory and upload new skills directly into the brain like The Matrix. SOURCE

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Feeling let down by the limited variety of hoverboards currently available to you? Fret not, for another company named ArcaSpace are joining the competition with their ArcaBoard. Though it’ll cost you $19,900. SOURCE

Founded by futurists and A.I. researchers, a new company named BodAi has recently unveiled itself, stating that they’ll soon be working on designing future robotic companions, confidants, and much more. SOURCE