Another Year of Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact
io9 has The 18 Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2013, including the mainstreaming of life extension, brain interfaces, a personhood lawsuit on behalf of chimpanzees, and the world's first carbon nanotube computer.
A breakthrough in laser research may make lightsabers possible. It also has some value for quantum computers or something, but who cares about that? Lightsabers!
Not just cyberears, but 3D-printed cyberears.
Yet another step toward 3D-printed body parts: some ophthalmologists made eye cells using an inkjet printer.
DARPA held a robot contest, and there were robots capable of entering and winning it. We're all going to die.
Like I mentioned a few posts back, we can make oil now. Out of algae. No dinosaurs needed.
Researchers at Stanford, while trying to do something about epilepsy, accidentally discovered how to artificially stimulate the location in the brain that triggers a person’s will to persevere.
Vegan leather. Vegan leather. SCIENCE!
A breakthrough in laser research may make lightsabers possible. It also has some value for quantum computers or something, but who cares about that? Lightsabers!
Not just cyberears, but 3D-printed cyberears.
Yet another step toward 3D-printed body parts: some ophthalmologists made eye cells using an inkjet printer.
DARPA held a robot contest, and there were robots capable of entering and winning it. We're all going to die.
Like I mentioned a few posts back, we can make oil now. Out of algae. No dinosaurs needed.
Researchers at Stanford, while trying to do something about epilepsy, accidentally discovered how to artificially stimulate the location in the brain that triggers a person’s will to persevere.
Vegan leather. Vegan leather. SCIENCE!