There is no time like the Present, right? In my opinion, no.The present is just a safe space for the possible, plausible and probableideas. Afforce, not all the out of the box ideas can be made reality, butspeculative design makes the box we are thinking in just a little bigger.

The questions raised by designers, Joseph Popper, AngiHaines, beside the three W’s are way beyond just surviving on Mars, its aboutliving, which allowed the creation of wine containers, a luxury on a whole new-presently uninhabited planet. However, the “what if” is the birthplace ofdevelopment. Concepts and prototypes of the past are working products now, withan increase in ease of operating.

I have always been a Star-Wars fan, and C3PO is a droid thatin present times is a part of our everyday life. If we deconstruct 3PO inmodern times, he is basically a Translate application available easily and freeof cost loaded in a much smaller, lighter and portable droid, our mobilephones. Gorge Lucas speculated this design back in 1977, even before the birthof the Internet. The tin man with a mind of his own or Artificial Intelligence,is however an invention that has gained popularity and is advancing every day. 

Robotics and technology now is more advanced than it wasexpected and that is due to the constant research and study of the tiny fibersof “what if’s” left in our minds. The uprise in artificial intelligence sproutsseveral conspiracy theories of the world being ruled by the robots one day, andthat with the technological advancements, research and study, it looksseemingly impossible to be anonymous in this day and age. With all of thisaccumulated data that can be stored within the unencrypted walls of the vastinternet we surf through our tiny utopian C3Pos.