Phil and Stephen review a grab-bag of news stories indicating that the future will be here sooner than we think.\n\nIt\u2019s Getting Hard to Tell If a Painting Was Made by a Computer or a Human\n\nIn a randomized-controlled double-blind study, subjects were unable to distinguish the computer art from two sample sets of acclaimed work created by flesh-and blood artists (one culled from the canon of Abstract Expressionist paintings, the other from works shown at the 2016 edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong).\n\nElectric bus sets record with 1,101-mile trip on a single charge\n\nThink it was impressive when a Tesla club drove a Model S nearly 670 miles? It has nothing on what Proterra just managed. The startup just drove a Catalyst E2 Max electric bus a whopping 1,101.2 miles on a single charge.\xa0\n\nQuantum Computing Will Change Everything, and Sooner Than You Expect\n\nInside this box could be the future of carbon capture\n\nDARPA Is Planning to Hack the Human Brain to Let Us \u201cUpload\u201d Skills\n\nIn March 2016, DARPA \u2014 the U.S. military\u2019s \u201cmad science\u201d branch \u2014 announced their Targeted Neuroplasticity Training (TNT) program. The TNT program aims to explore various safe neurostimulation methods for activating synaptic plasticity, which is the brain\u2019s ability to alter the connecting points between neurons...\n\nWT 359-669