Futurist David Houle
David Houle
is a glimpse at Earth’s future through the lens of current human concepts such as ages, work, structures, communications, connectivity, health, education, media, travel, place, family, commerce, race, religion and consciousness.
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Drone Technology points to the Creation of the Hoverbike
Marty McFly had the hover skateboard. In our not too distant future there will be the Hoverbike.
The First Man-Made Biological Leaf
This type of invention could enhance oxygen in places on earth and, perhaps more practically enable the creation of oxygen for prolonged space flights.
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Virtual Reality is Coming to Hollywood
This futurist has been extolling the coming transformative effect of augmented and virtual reality. By 2020 millions of people will be experiencing this form of “reality”. This video looks at the early efforts of the entertainment industry to create a totally immersive viewing experience. This video will be regarded as quaint by the end of […]
The New Movement to Become Immortal
There is a developing new field of endeavor that seeks to reverse aging. The medical knowledge developed in the last few decades has now laid the foundation for such an incredible concept to be considered a near future possibility. This trailer for the film “The Immortalists” provides a glimpse of something this futurist sees as […]
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Not Just Another Fitness Watch
There are and will be dozens of watches to measure heart rate, steps taken and sleep patterns. This watch is designed to provide advanced warning of epileptic seizures. A potential life saving watch for the tens of millions of people in the world with epilepsy.
Neuroscientists Seek to Externally Map Mental Illness
We have truly entered the golden age of neuroscience. This team at Stanford are focusing on what various forms of mental illness look like – as many of them are due to some part of the brain malfunctioning – and then treat them externally. The vision of neuroscientists mapping and then curing forms of mental […]
Wanderers
Okay, we here at Future Wow! are fans of Carl Sagan, whose voice narrates this video. This is a short film about space exploration and the human need to explore. Given that it is very likely that in this century we will both visit another planet and perhaps find intelligent life somewhere we thought this […]
Is the Flying Car finally here?
The new AeroMobil 3.0 is the closest thing I have seen to that long ago vision of the future with flying cars.
Ambulance Drone
A wonderful use of drone technology. Saves the life of a man having a heart attack. An ambulance is restricted by ground transport and traffic.
Cutting Edge of Urban Personal Transport
As we move to ever more human scale urban environments and need to lessen dependence on the internal combustion engine there is great innovation in the personal transport area. Not yet the Hoverboard but getting there!
3-D Printing a Lunar Base
From the European Space Agency, the folks that just put a landing module on a comet, here is a view of how to use 3-D printing to build a lunar base. Using actual surface matter from the Moon will dramatically lower costs of transport. Something for the 2020s.
