Do you covet Professor Xavier's power to tap into other people's minds? It may not be as physically damaging or visually impressive as an energy blast, but having exclusive private information can be extremely powerful too, just like the movie shows us. Breaking into the enemy's mind to see his next move, you can preempt a lethal blow. For more leisure use, you can better assess your mating opportunities in the nightclub. To be more specific, you probably want to zero in on the girl who also likes to watch "Glee", loves reading "Techcrunch" and lists Korea as their favorite country.

It doesn't sound too futuristic? That's what I thought too when I was using the iPhone app "Sonar". As soon as you connect with Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter, it tells you what other Foursquare users are around you. And if they have Facebook and/or Twitter already hooked up with their Foursquare accounts, the app will analyze how well you match with that nearby person, or at minimum shows you who your common friends are. Oh, you can also send that person a tweet saying "Hey pretty, I'm a total stranger, guess where I am, I'm watching you mu-ah".

Using an "Sonar"-equipped iPhone is still not very "Professor X-like". Luckily, as Ray Kurzweil the "Transcendent Man" predicts, we will soon have tiny but super powerful computers embedded into human bodies. Imagine an iPhone with a size of red blood cell inside your body, allowing you to make phone calls (I believe there will be a cooler word for "calls"), search nearby people, And, look up their social profiles, connections, and every information that they happily share with the world. Oh, you can probably leave a message inside their brains, I mean inboxes. Sounds fun…