There’s no stopping this future.
This week, two of the largest technology companies in the world offered unnerving glimpses of the future as they see it — one full of intelligent robots, the other fully immersed in virtual reality — instantly sending the Internet into a frenzy.
Google-owned Boston Dynamics released an eerie video on Tuesday of a resilient humanoid robot that gets shoved and bullied repeatedly by an actual human, but recovers to continue its work stocking shelves with boxes — work that could once have only been done by humans.
You spend years waiting for some new technology to blow your mind in a way that the endless procession of niche social media apps, bulky smartwatches and fake “hoverboards” never do. And then one week the future just arrives in all its terrifying glory. Read more…
