Your Future Reality Is Virtual

In 10 years we’ll have three dimensional virtual realities that will seem just like real reality, beamed straight from eyeglasses into our retinas.

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April 27, 2011

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In 10 years we’ll have three dimensional virtual realities that will seem just like real reality, beamed straight from eyeglasses into our retinas.

Co-Founder & Chancellor, Singularity University

Monthly Issue April 2026

In this monthly issue, we examine how our understanding of energy — and how we source and use it — is evolving.

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For decades, theorists have been cooking up "theories of everything" to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?

by Ethan Siegel

As the global economy moves beyond oil, the strategic importance of the world’s most critical hydrocarbon chokepoint is likely to decline rapidly.

by Frank Jacobs

A growing movement is trying to turn energy directly into food — reviving an old dream of escaping the violence and inefficiency of eating.

by Thomas Moynihan

A new generation of self-healing tools could make the U.S.'s aging power grid far more resilient against modern threats.

by Grant Mulligan

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