Yet another article that predicts future advances
I keep seeing articles about what certain people believe our future has in store for those that live/survive to see it. In the article, I've referenced above, there is the vision that potentially we will see people that are given robotic body parts like the old TV series Six Million Dollar Man or the RoboCop movie where you have what's left of a Human's mind planted into a body or equipped with body parts that are created and not human flesh.
You just know there are at least some scientist and inventors that are out there looking to experiment on willing subjects that will allow such to be done to them. I know that many people get ideas from various SciFi movies such as Star Trek where people are envisioning the ability to teleport things and even one day people like the transporters in Star Trek. Another of the SciFi movie that I've always thought might resemble what science might be trying to do today is the Johnny Depp movie Transcendence where a person's mind's contents are able to be uploaded into computer memory and then function in an Artificial Intelligence type way only evolving exponentially and in an unlimited way.
I still hope the future holds many exciting and wonderful things for future generations rather than a future of horrors and nightmares brought on by science gone awry or mankind destroying our own selves through future horrible weapons of mass destruction.
Russians suspected of developing a new form of Nuclear weapon
Yet another linked article that could reflect the future many will see. Nations have nuclear-tipped torpedos, missiles, bombs, artillery shells and other various yield devices but a weapon as described in this linked article is one which is designed to completely isolate a Nation by rendering its whole seacoast unusable. There are similar weapons being dreamed up or even developed that would take a nation and people back to the stone age where all technology would be rendered useless in the blink of an eye with an ElectroMagnetic Pulse type weapon discharged high enough over land. Then there are the low tech mass casualty devices such as biological and chemical weapons that are stockpiled by some nations and potentially new diseases that could be released upon humanity. The future can be a wonderful, exciting place but if we allow the worst of our fears to control us then we could engineer our own demise as well.