William Shatner Opens Smithsonian Magazine's Future Is Here Festival

The future is this weekend.

“I’m watching the Tesla coil band rehearsal right now,” Smithsonian Magazine editor in chief Michael Caruso tells FishbowlDC earlier this afternoon. “They’re going to do a tribute to Prince and David Bowie with one million volts of electricity. So that will be spectacular.”

The band, ArcAttack, creates performance art by way of fusing science, sound production and a whole lot of visible electricity. It’s just one of a weekend’s worth of events and talks that make up Smithsonian Magazine’s Future is Here Festival, now in its fourth year.

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