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DOOMSDAY DEVICES 5 new technologies that could turn our world into a scary, real-life ‘Peripheral’

By ROB WAUGH

HIT Amazon Prime TV series “The Peripheral,” based on William Gibson’s novel of the same name, depicts a grim planet Earth in the year 2099, when a much-reduced human population relies on artificially intelligent robot servants and virtual-reality headsets allow

people to travel back in time. (There are also invisible cars).

Some of the technologies the series depicts exist in embryonic form today — such as Amazon’s AI bot Alexa or Meta’s Virtual Reality headsets. But if you think the show’s Armageddon prophecy is just science fiction, think again.

There are many real-life advancements currently in development that could upend our world as we know it. Here are five big ones . . .

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