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FutureRant

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/// I’m calling it now, by 2026, audiences will get used to frequently seeing digital recreations of dead actors on the silver screen, and by the 2030s, production companies will experiment with making ‘stars’ out of digital humans as a way to cut costs. Unreal Engine's latest 'Synthetic Human' demo is getting way too close to the Uncanny Valley. /// Yet another data breach from Facebook, this time arguably playing a role in endangering the democratic process of the country it calls home. Lasting repercussions? For now, I doubt it . /// So just a week after the last email where I mention Waymo starting to offer driverless taxi rides, Uber’s driverless taxi kills a pedestrian . Lots of fault to go around, but realistically, this won’t be the last death reported before this tech is perfected. /// A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service to preserve your brain, except you'll have to be euthanized first. Ballsy sales pitch. /// Physicists are about to turn light into matter … so Star Trek holodecks? /// First FDA-approved gene therapy cures rare inherited retinal (eye) disease —this is just the first in many promising gene therapy miracles we’ll hear about as we enter into the 2020s.— David Tal, Consultant, Futurist, President of Quantumrun