NPR correspondent Elise Hu kicked off a series called "Future You" on May 6, which examines technology that has the potential to change the human experience by 2050.
Her first segment looked at "robotic exoskeletons," or noninvasive robotic suits that can be controlled and moved by thought. Scientists working on the prosthetic suits believe they could be used to help people who are paralyzed walk or eat.
"It's inexact, of course, but the questions I'm reporting concern the trends shaping where we're going as human beings and humanity thirty years from now," Ms. Hu said in an interview with NPR. "They are big ideas, but I'm focusing them around more digestible bits. The first exploration, this season, is really zeroing in on the human body and the most powerful computer we know of — the human brain."
Watch the first episode here.
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