diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 017a8b76d..3cadf2788 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
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 dependencies = [
+ "futures",
  "wgpu",
  "winit",
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+ "futures-executor",
+ "futures-io",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "futures-task",
+ "futures-util",
+]
+
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+dependencies = [
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-task",
+ "futures-util",
+]
+
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+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
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+
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+ "proc-macro2 1.0.19",
+ "quote 1.0.7",
+ "syn",
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+
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+dependencies = [
+ "once_cell",
+]
+
+[[package]]
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+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8764574ff08b701a084482c3c7031349104b07ac897393010494beaa18ce32c6"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-channel",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-io",
+ "futures-macro",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "futures-task",
+ "memchr",
+ "pin-project",
+ "pin-utils",
+ "proc-macro-hack",
+ "proc-macro-nested",
+ "slab",
+]
+
 [[package]]
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 version = "0.2.1"
@@ -566,6 +662,12 @@ version = "2.0.0"
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 checksum = "60302e4db3a61da70c0cb7991976248362f30319e88850c487b9b95bbf059e00"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "memchr"
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+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3728d817d99e5ac407411fa471ff9800a778d88a24685968b36824eaf4bee400"
+
 [[package]]
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 version = "0.7.0"
@@ -753,6 +855,12 @@ dependencies = [
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 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "once_cell"
+version = "1.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0b631f7e854af39a1739f401cf34a8a013dfe09eac4fa4dba91e9768bd28168d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ordered-float"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -814,6 +922,32 @@ version = "2.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d4fd5641d01c8f18a23da7b6fe29298ff4b55afcccdf78973b24cf3175fee32e"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pin-project"
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+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ca4433fff2ae79342e497d9f8ee990d174071408f28f726d6d83af93e58e48aa"
+dependencies = [
+ "pin-project-internal",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "pin-project-internal"
+version = "0.4.23"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2c0e815c3ee9a031fdf5af21c10aa17c573c9c6a566328d99e3936c34e36461f"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2 1.0.19",
+ "quote 1.0.7",
+ "syn",
+]
+
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+name = "pin-utils"
+version = "0.1.0"
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+checksum = "8b870d8c151b6f2fb93e84a13146138f05d02ed11c7e7c54f8826aaaf7c9f184"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pkg-config"
 version = "0.3.18"
@@ -829,6 +963,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "toml",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "proc-macro-hack"
+version = "0.5.18"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "99c605b9a0adc77b7211c6b1f722dcb613d68d66859a44f3d485a6da332b0598"
+
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+name = "proc-macro-nested"
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+checksum = "eba180dafb9038b050a4c280019bbedf9f2467b61e5d892dcad585bb57aadc5a"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro2"
 version = "0.4.30"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f89ee594a..a36f7b9f9 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ authors = ["Hanno Braun <hb@hannobraun.de>"]
 edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
-wgpu  = "*"
-winit = "*"
+futures = "*"
+wgpu    = "*"
+winit   = "*"