Boeing has announced that to build their Starliner space taxis, Oxford Performance Materials will 3D print 600 parts out of a space-resistant plastic for each spacecraft. With developments to get more humans into space advancing every day, 3D-printing could be the technology that makes it possible.
How will technology evolve in the next 50 years? What will the world be like? Bill Nye, self-proclaimed "Science Guy," takes a stab at prophecy. Prospects are grim, he forecasts; but the progressive influence of younger generations can give us hope.
From colonies on Mars to massive pods under the sea, architects and urban planners have come up with some wildly imaginative designs for the future of city living. Given current population trends and our ever-worsening environment, we need to start thinking now about how humanity will live in the future.