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If someone told you 20 years ago that in the year 2022, fortunes would be made and lost with pretend Internet money, a sentient computer would hire a real-life lawyer and video games would be on the cusp of being indistinguishable from reality, would you have believed it? It all happened this year yet somehow, we still don’t have flying cars, real hoverboards or Half-Life 3?
For years, a British computer engineer who essentially threw away the key to his cryptocurrency vault has been trying to excavate the device on which it is stored from a local landfill. This year, he came up with the boldest project yet, but the chances of it getting approved by authorities are slim to none.
Russia has unveiled a robotic dog that carries an anti-tank rocket launcher on its back. While such a creation has plenty of scary, Black Mirror-style implications, it appears to be little more than a $2,700 machine purchasable from Alibaba, carrying an RPG it might not be able to fire very well (or at all), and dressed like a dog-ninja, for some reason.
In 2015, Epic founder Tim Sweeney predicted that within a decade, it would be hard to tell the difference between virtual reality and the real world. We’re only a couple years away from 2025 and judging by what we’re seeing from the very early days of UE5, Sweeney’s prediction could very well come to fruition.
