1986 sci-fi technologies are now the research frontier
anderssandberg · x · 2026-08-18
A short film about the Foresight Institute looks back at 1986, when scientists and futurists gathered to take seriously technologies most people considered science fiction: nanotechnology, machine intelligence, radical life extension, and brain-computer interfaces. Forty years later, these are no longer fringe ideas but the research frontier.
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