Kevin Holden Platt covers world-leading breakthroughs in science and hyper-technology, with stories reported across three continents, published in National Geographic, Domus, New York Times, Financial Times, Times of London, and Germany’s Spiegel.Features across the sphere of space act as time machines speeding readers into the future: One charts advances made by a Harvard scientist, leading-edge roboticists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and inventors at NASA in prefiguring Mars’ first cities, co-built by swarms of AI-enhanced robots, and a new civilization floating along the outer boundaries of the solar system’s habitable zone.