Rise of the Cybergods | Future Shock: In Ten Years, the World Will be Radically Different

Rise of the Cybergods | Future Shock: In Ten Years, the World Will be Radically Different: "Now, I want you to imagine where we will be in another ten years, in the Year 2024, perhaps the beginning of 2025. By that time, today’s Google Glass will have spawned a plethora of imitators, and nearly everyone will  have abandoned cell phones for wearables. Smart glasses will be affordable, and they might even correct your vision while providing a heads-up display with the blink of an eye or a twist of the head.



But these will be all too common by then, if they’re not already considered dinosaurs by then. Contacts will replace glasses, but implantable devices will very likely be the new high-end interface. Clear-lens extraction with an interface replacement will be all the rage by then. This means that your natural ‘lens’ (the part just behind your pupil that accommodates your visual focal length, helping you to see near and far) will be removed and replaced with a connected lens. Cochlear implants will aid in ‘hearing’ the Internet, and these new parts of ‘you’ will respond to your thoughts. Think I’m crazy? DARPA is already working on such devices, and they are very close to achieving thought control through brain implantation."