If anyone was wondering who created the beautiful Bubble Ship and Drones in the recent Tom Cruise hit, Oblivion, here’s your answer. Daniel Simon, senior designer at Bugatti and Volkswagen, has shown his talents in the film industry before with the design of the motorcycles in Tron. Now, after working with an A-list clientele including Warner Bros., Universal and Lotus, Simon has created the beautiful crafts Tom Cruise is seen zipping around the apocalyptic interpretation of planet Earth in Oblivion.

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LaCie Balde Runner, designed by Phillippe Starck, is a top of the line desktop drive to make all your colleagues jealous. Its goregous design combines the hard edges of blade-like shapes with an organic, bean-like center structure. Oh, and did I mention its 4TB drive and high-speed USB 3.0 interface, which can handle the toughest tasks.

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About a year ago, it was really cool for young kids to wear the turtle shell backpacks designed to make the kid feel like a Ninja Turtle. But now it’s time to grow up. This is the future of backpacks. Solid Gray backpacks are dutch designed. They’re tough, lean, and smart.

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Kazakhstan’s new capital city of Astana is home to a huge, futuristic pyramid structure – the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation – created to house the triennial ‘congress of world and traditional religions’. The stunning project was designed by Foster and Partners and ate up 8.74 billion kazakh tenge (as in £35 million or US$53 million). It’s the price of perfection, I suppose.

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According to the 1980s, Xanadu is what houses looked like in 2001. That would’ve meant tearing down our houses fifteen years later in favour of giant hollow Polyurethane structures shaped like giant robots. I wish! In reality, our lame society pretty much stuck to the same old formula leaving ol’ Xanadu to be enjoyed only by Urban Explorers and the homeless.

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Here’s a sneak peak from Ghost in the Shell: Arise. I don’t understand Japanese, but the intriguing scenes of a beautiful girl lifting her hands to reveal her cyber robot prosthetics captured my attention right away. Originally created in 1989 as written Manga, this cyberpunk series is getting a face-lift for modern audiences. As a visual artist. I was drawn to the darkly elegant imagery, and as soon as the trailer was over I jumped to Google trying to uncover the movie’s details. I can’t wait to find a version with English subtitles.

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According to these illustrations, we should all have a personal flying machine by now. Take a step back in time and see what society was expecting life to be like by the year 2000. Each vintage image is a time capsule of thought and culture that flavors each prediction with Victorian fashion. Some of these are kind of accurate, such as the Undersea Tourist Boat and Moving Sidewalks, but others are pretty far fetched. Though I haven’t seen any cities covered by a huge glass roof just yet.

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‘The future is already here; it’s just not very evenly distributed’ (William Gibson). That quote comes to mind each time I visit Brenna Murphy’s ever-changing website. The Portland-based artist always seems to be a couple of steps ahead of the game. Her otherworldly hologram-like puzzles of marbelized baroque mandalas form an intertwining ecosystem that seems so near and yet so remote. Her art manages to spark an excitement of trying to discover and access her dense and rich digital environments, which I haven’t felt for a long time. Perhaps in a few years from now I’ll understand it. Until then, I remain amazed.

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We all have a vision of what we think the future will look like. So what does the ever present growth of China mean for Westerners? That is the question China-based French photographer Benoit Cezard is trying to answer through his interesting and controversial series, China 2050. The series show Westerners performing a range of “blue collar” jobs that may currently be performed by poorer Chinese migrants – cleaners, construction workers and waiters are all included. Is this the future for the Western world?

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