Summer 2015 Confronting the Future
Confronting the Future
Features
In the Deep Freeze
What kind of person gets cryonically preserved?
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Parts Department
The “you” that survives into the next century may be mostly 3D printed.
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No One Gets Hurt
Why the future of crime may be less violent and more insidious.
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Pedaling to Tomorrow
Could something as simple as an electric bike kick-start the future of transportation?
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Lab + Field
Real Deal on the Final Frontier
A former astronaut weighs in on the realities of space travel.
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Rosetta Disks as Speech Savers
Anticipating upheavals, a project aims to preserve the world’s languages. Think of it as a decoder ring for the future.
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Robots for Us, or Against Us?
A Berkeley professor is cautious about the consequences of AI, noting that when it comes to anticipating the risks posed by new technologies, we humans “don’t have a great track record.”
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Going Chameleon
What a material that changes color as it moves could mean for humans.
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Drawing a Line in the Sand
How can we protect shorelines from the ravages of the future? It’s defend or surrender.
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Arts + Letters
My Fictional Life
UC prof finds he’s lead character in Robert Roper’s murder mystery “The Savage Professor”.
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Taste Test
All Natural
Forget fake meat and nutrient powders. The food of the future will be more down-to-earth.
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Sather Gate
The Theorist’s Tools
Using quantum mechanics and computers, Marvin Cohen conjures the building blocks of the future.
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Out of the Gate
Out of the Navy and Into a Job
“Do you know anything about celestial navigation?” His companion pulled a form from a briefcase and handed it to me. “Sign here.”
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Perspectives
Share Your Own Insight
Have a perspective on the future that we somehow failed to include? Share it with us now.
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