You know you're living in the future when...

[Edwin]

There are 63 rocket launches within the next 12 months
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

512GB SSD drives weigh 1g and are about the size of a postage stamp (oh, and run at up to 1500 MB/s read speed)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10385/samsung-begins-mass-production-of-pm971-bga-ssds

Totally blind people can have some (for now small) measure of sight restored.
http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2016/jun/bionic-vision-glasses-blind.cfm

Please add your own examples of truly amazing tech news.

 

[RobM]

I won't link to discovery of the Higgs particle as it has been well documented on many sites but that and the photo of light as both a wave and a particle (http://phys.org/news/2015-03-particle.html) were mindblowing for me.

 

[Bailey]

Nice link that Rob, Cheers. Bit like 'Gravitational Waves' Going to open-up a whole new understanding of our Physical World. And of course a 1,000 more questions to keep the the next generations busy

 

[AssetDomains]

I love some of the stuff currently going on with genetic engineering. Its finally starting to show some real promise in the fight against cancer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...y-harnessing-virus-destroys-brain-tumors.html
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016...ubles-survival-time-of-brain-cancer-patients/

 

[accelerator]

Computers can beat humans at Go:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601072/five-lessons-from-alphagos-historic-victory/

 

[Edwin]

Carbyne (material even stronger than graphene) synthesized
http://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2016/04/22.htm#.V1KiUhVf1hE

It's another step towards developing a Space Elevator, which would allow us to reach orbit for a few quid's worth of electricity and a couple of days' patience.

 

[AssetDomains]

Another biotechnology related one certainly a bit more controversial but xenotransplantation has just took another big step forward with CRISPR
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36437428
I guess it not the future now but its not inconceivable that in the next 10 years we could be growing replacement organs and potentially with own histocompatibility markers so need for immunosuppressants and there complications

 

[Edwin]

A therapy is found that potentially not only halts, but partially reverses M.S.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/09/stem-cell-therapy-gives-hope-to-ms-patients

 

[mat]

What amazes me more is that in the future we will look back on this stuff like its nothing, but obviously to us here and now they are great achievements.

Our 63 rocket launches at the moment I am sure feel no more special than when we were sending out ships to find new worlds on our own earth.