Tomorrow's technology: from asteroid mining to programmable matter – Science Weekly podcast
by Presented by Ian Sample and produced by Max Sander from on (#381D4)
Ian Sample looks to the future and asks what might the technologies of tomorrow look like? And how might they change our world?
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In 1974, science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C Clarke went on Australian television and was asked to predict the future. He came up with something eerily similar to what we today call the internet. As far as futurists' predictions go, it was a rare success. Forty years later are we any better at crystal ball-gazing? What emerging technologies might change the world as we know it today? And what clues are scientists giving us in the here and now?
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