Adapted from the book "Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact" http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrowland-Journey-Science-Fiction-Fact/dp/0544456211

1. TOMORROWLAND
OUR JOURNEY FROM SCIENCE FICTION TO SCIENCE FACT
BY STEVEN KOTLER

2. SCIENCE FICTION IS RAPIDLY BECOMING SCIENCE FACT AND
LOOK OUT. WE’RE NOW JUST TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD,
WE’RE UP-ENDING AGE-OLD BELIEFS, PUNCTURING PARADIGMS
WE HAVE LONG TAKEN FOR GRANTED. “FOLLOW YOUR WEIRD,”
SAID AUTHOR BRUCE STERLING. WELL, AS THESE 10
TECHNOLOGIES DEMONSTRATE, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED."
STEVEN KOTLER

3. BIONICS - THE BIONIC MAN
Future technology has always been about pushing
limits. And there are no greater limits than the
ones imposed by our own biology. Aging is the
undeniable signal that the clock called life is
winding down. But bionics opens the door for a
new era of rebirth, where platitudes about second
childhoods can now be reinforced by serious
mechanistic heft. This means that the true impact
of bionics will be mental as much as physical. We
think we’re building new bodies, but we’re going
to end up with new minds as well.
TOMORROWLAND

4. MIND UPLOADING - THE GENIUS
WHO STICKS AROUND FOREVER
Imagine being able to upload consciousness onto
a computer, to store our selves in silicon. This is
the frontier known as mind uploading, and it is a
truly wild frontier. Pretty soon, and for the first
time in history, a living being will be able to
experience the life of a dead one. Will we all
eventually have our lives recorded for posterity?
Will it get even stranger? Descartes told us: “I
think therefore I am.” But what happens when
someone else thinks you? Seriously, who are
you now?
TOMORROWLAND

5. Consider this scenario: Day one: You meet a blind
man. Day Three: He can see well enough to drive
a car around a crowded parking lot. The world’s
first artificial vision implant capable of this feat
already exists. Devices capable of augmented
sight—eagle eyes, eyes that see colors outside of
our visual spectrum, or eyes that have microscopic
abilities—are not far behind.
TOMORROWLAND
AUGMENTED SIGHT --
VISION QUEST

6. THE ARRIVAL OF FLYING CARS
Aerospace engineer Dezso Molnar has built a
machine that can fly high enough to clear tall
mountains and drive fast enough to give Formula
One racers a run for their money. And it’s here
today. A few years from now, you’ll be able to
assemble one from a kit. It is both the stuff of very
old dreams and the very first flying vehicle that’s
actually available to the masses.
TOMORROWLAND

7. SPACE DIVING
If you scratch under the surface of sport, you’ll
quickly encounter the burgeoning science of play.
Over the past few decades, a topic once
dismissed as unimportant is now considered a
fundamental biological process that helps us learn
social skills, stimulate creativity and innovation,
and test the limits of our own potential. But space
diving is the next frontier—it’s proof that our need
to play, interwoven with our urge to push limits,
has finally left the planet.
TOMORROWLAND

8. The curing of disease and the creation of life are
among our oldest dreams. They are ideas that
comprise our myths and legends, ideas that have
been with us for so long that they are woven into
the fabric of our being. But aspirational no more.
The very first man-made mosquitoes are about to
venture into the wild to combat some of the most
devastating diseases on earth, marking the very
first time a creature birthed entirely in imagination
will take up residence in reality.
TOMORROWLAND
THE WORLD’S
FIRST GENETICALLY
-ENGINEERED INSECT

9. The very first trillionaire on Earth may be the
person who figured out how to mine the sky, a
process known as asteroid mining. Well, the
economic engine that unlocks the solar system
has finally arrived. Very soon, we will no longer be
a one-planet species.
TOMORROWLAND
ASTEROID MINING --
GALACTIC GOLD RUSH

10. Steroids have been the subject of one of the
greatest misinformation campaigns in history. If
you can get past their bad reputation, these
drugs appear to cure some of our most
intractable diseases and are a actual first step
toward legitimate anti-aging medicine. They
are the wonder drug of tomorrow, and they are
here today.
TOMORROWLAND
THE TROUBLED SCIENCE
OF LIFE EXTENSION

11. The promise of stem cells is considerable. But
stem cells also elucidate an important point—how
incredibly difficult innovation really is. This fight is
far from over. Meanwhile, a middle-of-the-road
estimate of how many Americans will die from
diseases that stem cell research might soon cure
is 130 million.
TOMORROWLAND
STEM CELLS:
THE FINAL FRONTIER

12. THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTION
The true power of future technology isn’t found in
any one technology, it’s found in the aggregate
impact of all these technologies. Consider
evolution itself. Changes once measured in
millions of years are now unfolding in a handful of
decades. So, so long Homo sapiens. The results
are fracturing our species. We are no longer
human beings, we are now human becomings.
TOMORROWLAND

13. THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTION
The true power of future technology isn’t found in
any one technology, it’s found in the aggregate
impact of all these technologies. Consider
evolution itself. Changes once measured in
millions of years are now unfolding in a handful of
decades. So, so long Homo sapiens. The results
are fracturing our species. We are no longer
human beings, we are now human becomings.
TOMORROWLAND
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