Since 2001, The magazine MIT Technology Review has given us a list of technological advances which we are predicted to make in the upcoming year. This year, there were a few which were expected, for example, 3D Metal Printing. While this kind of tech has been around for decades, it’s now becoming cheap and easy enough to be a potentially practical way of manufacturing parts, and could change the way we mass-produce many products. The rest of the predictions, however, are much less familiar. Below is the complete list of MIT’s Predicted ‘Breakthrough Technologies’ for 2018.
3D metal printing – Now printers can make metal objects quickly and cheaply.
Artificial Embryos – realistic-looking mouse embryos have been grown in a UK laboratory using only stem cells. These“synthetic” embryos probably couldn’t have grown into mice, but, even so, they’re a hint that soon we could have mammals born without an egg.
Sensing City – A Toronto neighbourhood aims to be the first place to successfully integrate cutting-edge urban design with state-of-the-art digital technology.
AI For Everybody – Right now the use of AI is dominated by a relatively few companies, but as a cloud-based service, it could be widely available to many more, giving the economy a boost.
Dueling Neural Networks – This gives machines something akin to a sense of imagination, which may help them become less reliant on humans—but also turns them into alarmingly powerful tools for digital fakery.
Babel-Fish Earbuds – Near-real-time translation now works for a large number of languages and is easy to use, but to have the translation available in your earbuds would mean that in an increasingly global world, The language barrier could cease to exist.
Zero-Carbon Natural Gas – A power plant efficiently and cheaply captures carbon released by burning natural gas, avoiding greenhouse-gas emissions.
Perfect Online Privacy – Computer scientists are perfecting a cryptographic tool for proving something without revealing the information underlying the proof. Therefore If you need to disclose personal information to get something done online, it will be easier to do so without risking your privacy or exposing yourself to identity theft.
Genetic Fortune-Telling – Scientists can now use your genome to predict your chances of getting heart disease or breast cancer, and even your IQ.
Materials’ Quantum Leap – Understanding molecules in exact detail will allow chemists to design more effective drugs and better materials for generating and distributing energy.
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