Computers are almost as smart as humans. Will they turn on us?

Welcome to Fusion’s Instagram series, “In Our Lifetime.” Each week we bring you something amazing, exciting, or maybe even a little scary that we’re all likely to witness this century. It’s a collaboration between digital voices editor Anna Holmes and video journalist Adam Westbrook.

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Will the Singularity be the end of us?

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Would you hire a sex robot?

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Livable land might be wiped away by rising sea levels

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The diet of the future might include bugs

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Robots might take over some jobs, but humans still have an edge

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You could be living on Mars in 10 years

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A world with no wild elephants or rhinos?

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Sorry, your kids will never learn to drive

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Make anything — anything! — with a nanoprinter

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The future, and all its problems, is closer than you think