{"id":122049,"date":"2021-04-28T08:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/these-materials-could-make-science-fiction-a-reality"},"modified":"2021-04-28T08:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:22:30","slug":"these-materials-could-make-science-fiction-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/these-materials-could-make-science-fiction-a-reality","title":{"rendered":"These Materials Could Make Science Fiction a Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-materials-could-make-science-fiction-a-reality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"\">This article is part of our new series, <\/em><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/spotlight\/currents\" title=\"\"><em class=\"\">Currents<\/em><\/a><em class=\"\">, which examines how rapid advances in technology are transforming our lives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Imagine operating a computer by moving your hands in the air as Tony Stark does in \u201cIron Man.\u201d Or using a smartphone to magnify an object as does the device that Harrison Ford\u2019s character uses in \u201cBlade Runner.\u201d Or a next-generation video meeting where augmented reality glasses make it possible to view 3D avatars. Or a generation of autonomous vehicles capable of driving safely in city traffic.<\/p>\n<p>These advances and a host of others on the horizon could happen because of metamaterials, making it possible to control beams of light with the same ease that computer chips control electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is part of our new series, Currents, which examines how rapid advances in technology are transforming our lives. Imagine operating a computer by moving your hands in the air as Tony Stark does in \u201cIron Man.\u201d Or using a smartphone to magnify an object as does the device that Harrison Ford\u2019s character uses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1512,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}