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B Y S T E V E N K O T L E R

SCIENCE FICTION IS RAPIDLY BECOMING SCIENCE FACT AND

LOOK OUT. WE’RE NOW JUST TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD,

WE’RE UP-ENDING AGE-OLD BELIEFS, PUNCTURING PARADIGMS

WE HAVE LONG TAKEN FOR GRANTED. “FOLLOW YOUR WEIRD,”

SAID AUTHOR BRUCE STERLING. WELL, AS THESE 10

TECHNOLOGIES DEMONSTRATE, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED."

STEVEN KOTLER

BIONICS - THE BIONIC MANFuture technology has always been about pushing

limits. And there are no greater limits than the

ones imposed by our own biology. Aging is the

undeniable signal that the clock called life is

winding down. But bionics opens the door for a

new era of rebirth, where platitudes about second

childhoods can now be reinforced by serious

mechanistic heft. This means that the true impact

of bionics will be mental as much as physical. We

think we’re building new bodies, but we’re going

to end up with new minds as well.

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MIND UPLOADING - THE GENIUSWHO STICKS AROUND FOREVERImagine being able to upload consciousness onto

a computer, to store our selves in silicon. This is

the frontier known as mind uploading, and it is a

truly wild frontier. Pretty soon, and for the first

time in history, a living being will be able to

experience the life of a dead one. Will we all

eventually have our lives recorded for posterity?

Will it get even stranger? Descartes told us: “I

think therefore I am.” But what happens when

someone else thinks you? Seriously, who are

you now?

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Consider this scenario: Day one: You meet a blind

man. Day Three: He can see well enough to drive

a car around a crowded parking lot. The world’s

first artificial vision implant capable of this feat

already exists. Devices capable of augmented

sight—eagle eyes, eyes that see colors outside of

our visual spectrum, or eyes that have microscopic

abilities—are not far behind.

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AUGMENTED SIGHT -- VISION QUEST

THE ARRIVAL OF FLYING CARSAerospace engineer Dezso Molnar has built a

machine that can fly high enough to clear tall

mountains and drive fast enough to give Formula

One racers a run for their money. And it’s here

today. A few years from now, you’ll be able to

assemble one from a kit. It is both the stuff of very

old dreams and the very first flying vehicle that’s

actually available to the masses.

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SPACE DIVINGIf you scratch under the surface of sport, you’ll

quickly encounter the burgeoning science of play.

Over the past few decades, a topic once

dismissed as unimportant is now considered a

fundamental biological process that helps us learn

social skills, stimulate creativity and innovation,

and test the limits of our own potential. But space

diving is the next frontier—it’s proof that our need

to play, interwoven with our urge to push limits,

has finally left the planet.

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The curing of disease and the creation of life are

among our oldest dreams. They are ideas that

comprise our myths and legends, ideas that have

been with us for so long that they are woven into

the fabric of our being. But aspirational no more.

The very first man-made mosquitoes are about to

venture into the wild to combat some of the most

devastating diseases on earth, marking the very

first time a creature birthed entirely in imagination

will take up residence in reality.

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THE WORLD’SFIRST GENETICALLY -ENGINEERED INSECT

The very first trillionaire on Earth may be the

person who figured out how to mine the sky, a

process known as asteroid mining. Well, the

economic engine that unlocks the solar system

has finally arrived. Very soon, we will no longer be

a one-planet species.

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ASTEROID MINING -- GALACTIC GOLD RUSH

Steroids have been the subject of one of the

greatest misinformation campaigns in history. If

you can get past their bad reputation, these

drugs appear to cure some of our most

intractable diseases and are a actual first step

toward legitimate anti-aging medicine. They

are the wonder drug of tomorrow, and they are

here today.

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THE TROUBLED SCIENCE OF LIFE EXTENSION

The promise of stem cells is considerable. But

stem cells also elucidate an important point—how

incredibly difficult innovation really is. This fight is

far from over. Meanwhile, a middle-of-the-road

estimate of how many Americans will die from

diseases that stem cell research might soon cure

is 130 million.

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STEM CELLS: THE FINAL FRONTIER

THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTIONThe true power of future technology isn’t found in

any one technology, it’s found in the aggregate

impact of all these technologies. Consider

evolution itself. Changes once measured in

millions of years are now unfolding in a handful of

decades. So, so long Homo sapiens. The results

are fracturing our species. We are no longer

human beings, we are now human becomings.

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THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTION

The true power of future technology isn’t found in

any one technology, it’s found in the aggregate

impact of all these technologies. Consider

evolution itself. Changes once measured in

millions of years are now unfolding in a handful of

decades. So, so long Homo sapiens. The results

are fracturing our species. We are no longer

human beings, we are now human becomings.

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