{"id":90194,"date":"2019-05-02T07:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T14:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/humanity-has-officially-entered-the-era-of-the-exosuit"},"modified":"2019-05-02T07:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T14:43:03","slug":"humanity-has-officially-entered-the-era-of-the-exosuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/humanity-has-officially-entered-the-era-of-the-exosuit","title":{"rendered":"Humanity Has Officially Entered the Era of the Exosuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I loved the Thundercats<\/a><\/em> cartoon as a child, watching cat-like humanoids fighting the forces of evil. Whenever their leader was in trouble, he\u2019d unleash the Sword of Omens to gain \u201csight beyond sight,\u201d the ability to see events happening at faraway places, or bellow \u201cThunder, Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats, Hooo!<\/a>\u201d to instantaneously summon his allies to his location to join the fight. What kid didn\u2019t want those superpowers?<\/p>\n

I also wanted Green Lantern\u2019s ring<\/a>, Wonder Woman\u2019s bracelets<\/a>, Captain America\u2019s shield<\/a>, and, of course, Batman\u2019s batsuit<\/a>. I never imagined then that 30 years later, as National Superhero Day<\/a> approaches, I\u2019d be designing components of my own supersuits.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t really notice this until a few months ago. On that day, my childhood dreams were at once destroyed and fulfilled. Standing in a line, I noticed that everyone was focused on their smartphones\u2019 screens. Suddenly it hit me: I already had Sword of Omens superpowers. With my smartphone, I can see video of faraway events and text my friends to meet up. Billions of people<\/a> now have what used to be considered superpowers.<\/p>\n

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I loved the Thundercats cartoon as a child, watching cat-like humanoids fighting the forces of evil. Whenever their leader was in trouble, he\u2019d unleash the Sword of Omens to gain \u201csight beyond sight,\u201d the ability to see events happening at faraway places, or bellow \u201cThunder, Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats, Hooo!\u201d to instantaneously summon his allies to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90194","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}