Futuristic vision

Journey To Mars   How the private space industry will reinvent economics, exploration, and humanity. The rise of the private space industry may be what’s needed to kickstart humans’ journey to the final frontier; the pursuit of profit is often a fantastic spur for innovation. Just how this will all play out is anyone’s guess, but the wheels are most definitely in motion. In September 2016, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage at the annual International Astronautical Congress conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, to outline his vision for invading Mars. The plan — a combination of technical specificity and operational vagueness — would make us a multi-planetary species by pre-stocking Mars via unmanned supply missions that leave Earth every 26 months when the two planets align in their respective orbits. These initial one-way trips will take around 80 days with today’s technology, but Musk believes they can eventually be shortened to 30-day voyages. Once Mars is properly...

Meta - The Coming Future of New Technology     F acebook is now officially a Metaverse company after announcing its rebrand to Meta at its Connect 2021 Keynote. Its collection of apps and projects will all fall under this umbrella, a move the company hopes will put out some of the fires burning on its doorstep, drawing attention away from Facebook. (Nice try.) But the name change was only part of the show. T he real meat of the presentation was the Metaverse. While we’ve already seen the Horizon Workroom demo, which looked like being trapped inside a world with Nintendo Wii avatars (without the fun sports games), here we were given further glimpses into how Zuckerberg sees the technology working and integrating with our lives. It was less of a dream and more of a dystopian nightmare. The demo began with Mark going full Ready Player One, as he metaphorically put on his Oculus/Smart Glasses/insert future technology and stepped into the Metaverse. The visuals turned fut...