Teleportation and Invisibility. Seems like the obvious choice to me. In theory couldn't you just rapid-fire teleport to fly anyway? I'm not sure why flying would be a necessity at all.

All of these powers are actually theoretically possible things which is pretty incredible really.

Functional cloaking devices are in the works but they have somewhat limited effectiveness and I don't think they would work on something as smooth as a human since the material is quite rigid. Still, masking an object from visibility is just a matter of redirecting the visible light waves around an object so it doesn't reflect or absorb them.

There was a report the other week about a "dream scanner" that picked up signals from the brain and compared them to a database of known "dream images" to tell what somebody was dreaming with around a 60% accuracy rate. I was a bit skeptical about it all because of the inaccuracy and because I'm not entirely sure that everybody's brain would respond in exactly the same way to an image of say, a tree. But the point is that studies of brain interfacing have been yielding positive results for a while. It's a field I can see growing, which is probably the most horrifying of these to become a reality.

Flying as a single human entity isn't possible per se but jetpacks are a thing. They're highly volatile, use copious amounts of fuel for almost no gain and have no commercial value whatsoever, but technology always improves over time. I'm not sure there will ever be a mass demand for this in all honesty. I'd rather we got to the flying cars.

The least explored is teleportation, largely because teleporting a macroscopic object in space is nowhere near possible with our energy resources and understanding. In theory it can be done, I think. The theory of wormholes is technically teleportation but considering the energy that you'd need to keep one open, it wouldn't really be worthwhile to travel anything smaller than interstellar space. Plus it's all theoretical anyway. But more functional teleportation ideas have been explored to transfer information between atoms: http://discovermagazine.com/2005/jan/teleportation-gets-real#.UWjag6KcccY

It's not much but it's a start.


It's pretty cool that MOST superpowers as we know them might one day become available. I don't think there are many things we can't do provided we keep pushing our boundaries of knowledge further and further.

Assuming teleportation ever becomes a thing, I don't think the conservation of momentum will be an issue.