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Dear Future (trailer)

Name: Dear Future (trailer)
Uploaded: 2018-09-17T15:00:38
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Description: Dear Future is Motherboard and CNET's new documentary series built on the premise that technology and science are still capable of wowing us. Fusion energy, DIY off-grid energy systems, decentralized mesh networks, the search for life on other planets, and humanoid robots aren't far-off science fiction, they're breakthroughs that are happening right now. Watch Episode 1 via part 2 above.

Dear Future is Motherboard and CNET's new documentary series built on the premise that technology and science are still capable of wowing us. Fusion energy, DIY off-grid energy systems, decentralized mesh networks, the search for life on other planets, and humanoid robots aren't far-off science fiction, they're breakthroughs that are happening right now.

Watch Episode 1 via part 2 above.

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