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Dear Future

What's here, what's coming

CNET and VICE's Motherboard team up to tour the future
Viruses are the antibiotics of the future
These roboticists want to take over the world with a pair of legs
Ignored by big telecom, Detroit's marginalized communities are building their own internet
How we'll solve our plastic problem
Meet the DIY mechanics retrofitting classic cars with electric motors
Theoretical physicists get closer to explaining how NASA’s ‘impossible’ EmDrive works
We were promised fusion
Deep inside a gold mine with the researcher who found the 'Devil Worm'
When going to space becomes your normal commute
This farm has no farmers
An artist is launching a 100-foot satellite that will be visible to the naked eye
A 'geoengineering cocktail' is the latest last-ditch proposal to reverse climate change
We should upload human minds on Stephen Hawking's interstellar mission
New chatbots will help people accept death
The dawn of a 'transgenic wilderness' is upon us
How we'll save encryption from the crypto-apocalypse
Asteroid mining is our best hope for colonizing Mars
Next year, scientists will send messages to search for aliens
‘Placenta-on-a-chip’ technology will let scientists research neonatal diseases