Travel without flying

  Simulation Creates Realities I can see a near future where humans stop smashing things in real life just to see what happens. No more expensive crash tests, no more wind tunnels sucking up billions of dollars, no more logistic and production nightmare on construction site or “oops, we broke another robot.” Instead, simulations will do the heavy lifting. Immense AI databases will crunch the properties of materials down to the atomic level and give us the most precise outcome imaginable. And honestly we’re already halfway there. Today, companies use AI to simulate how robots move, or to teach one how to do a backflip. Is that a useful feature? Probably not. But hey, at least it’s cheaper to fail in virtual reality than in the factory, where “oops” means six months of repairs and a crying engineer. The result? Fewer broken robots, fewer wasted weeks, and a lot more laughing at digital screw-ups before trying them in real life. We are heading into a world where we trust the s...