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This Week in the Future, August 29-September 2, 2011
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In the future, when we can translate thoughts into words, we can only hope that our thoughts will be as G-rated and well-informed as our astronaut friend here. Thanks for reading this week's PopSci so thoroughly, future-naut!
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- GPS Data Could Help Track and Monitor Secret Nuclear Tests From Rogue Nations
- Researchers Use Brain Scans to Translate Thoughts Into Words
- Future Mars Colonists Will Pack Their Power to Go in a Suitcase Nuclear Reactor
- Video: Filmmaker Rob Spence's Implanted Bionic Camera Eyeball Is Up and Running
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- Archive Gallery: 10 Renowned Scientists Make Their PopSci Debut
- First Steps of a Cyborg
- New Genetic Circuit Detects Cancerous Cells and Forces Them To Commit Suicide
- Japanese Domino's Unveils Elaborate, Carefully Thought-Out Plans to Sling Pizza on the Moon
- Study Finds That Injecting Old Mice With Young Mouse Blood Has a Rejuvenating Effect
- FYI: Can I Buy Land on the Moon?
- The Samsung Note, Half-Phone and Half-Tablet, Debuts in Berlin
- New 'Goldilocks' Exoplanet Could be the Most Earth-Like We've Yet Seen
- You Will Actually Be Able to Buy Sony's Crazy 3-D Head-Mounted Display
- Japanese Researchers Develop a Way to Turn Biological Tissue Transparent
- Five Gadgets to Make Your Dorm Room Outdo Any Rec Room
- Florida Funeral Home First to Debut Alternative to Cremation: Liquefaction
- Fermilab Astrophysicist's Method Cuts Plane Boarding Times in Half
- Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Gets Officially Certified, Will Start Shipping Next Month
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my favorite article was the cyborg one. It really opens up so many new doors to our future. When they started talking about the powered knew, I got chills. First you dont realize how something so "simple" is so difficult to artificially reproduce, now that they have, the implications are staggering.
I will delve into fiction for a bit. The thing is look at games like crysis series and dues ex. Those things may be possible in the next few decades but only a select few will get them. Its nice to dream to an average joe could be made better, but in reality and in fiction, its spec op soldiers and super spies that are simply made.... more super mainly because of the cost.
I think for a very very long time cybernetics will be only for the super rich and the guiny pigs willing to try to the first iterations of a limb or new eye. Plenty of vets losing their limbs are not getting these state of the art replacements.
even in the 70's the 6 million dollar man cost well... 6 million dollars. even back then they had the foresight that this tech would be very expensive and very exclusive.
BUT it puts me at ease a bit too. I ride a motorcycle and getting into an accident is a very real possibility for me. I am twice as likely to have an accident on a motorbike than a car and not nearly as protected. its good to know more medical options will become available in the future. I may not get super arms with guns built in... but something with a movable thumb would be nice.
My favorite article was about the brain scans being able to be turned into words. I think it would be really cool to upgrade that tech so you could "watch" someones dream or read their mind :P
The reading minds one scares me. You never know who might have it. Your personal thoughts wouldn't be personal anymore. Your ideas, thoughts, and creations could be stolen from you and you wouldn't even notice (Unless the mind-reading machine is unwieldy and bulky.) It makes me wonder.