Bill Gates - MIT's Breakthrough Technologies in 2019

Every March, the MIT Technology Review publishes a list of the top technology Trends and Innovations. The "MIT Breakthrough Technologies for 2019" are intended to shape people's lives this year. A paradigm shift takes place with the election of guest author Bill Gates. Gates, who predicted the dominance of the PC and the Internet back then, puts a new focus on life and in his listing Environment.

Technology trends for a longer and better life

The groundbreaking innovations this year cover two main areas, health and the environment. Inventions like a personalized anti-cancer vaccine, an ECG bracelet, a blood test to prevent premature birth or a minimalist gastric tube in the form of a capsule to save lives and extend. Other inventions should in turn secure the existence of humanity. Such as a CO2 catcher, novel nuclear reactors or meat-free burgers.

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Advances in artificial intelligence

This is how robots are getting better and better at dealing flexibly with objects and human language. So if machines not only reserve a table in the restaurant, but in the near future help people in need of care, they could actually make life easier. The focus of science is increasingly on the well-being of people in everyday life, but also in old age. Many of the innovations presented are milestones, but still raise many new questions.

Bill Gates Pioneering Technologies for 2019

1. New robot dexterity - Robots learn independently to handle new types of objects.
2. Nuclear power plants of the future - New designs of fission and fusion reactors should lead atomic energy into the future in a safer and cheaper way.
3. Predictions of premature babies - Blood tests in pregnant women calculate the probability of a premature birth.
4. Colon tube in a pill - Swallowing this small device makes anesthesia superfluous, also applicable to small children and infants.
5. Personalized cancer vaccination - The vaccine causes the body's immune system to recognize cancer cells and only fight them.
6. The cow-free burger - Vegetable and laboratory-developed meat alternatives come very close to the taste of the original and are environmentally friendly.
7. Carbon dioxide scavenger - Inexpensive and practical developments suck CO2 out of the air and support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
8. An EKG on the wrist - Officially approved devices enable constant monitoring of heart activity on the wrist.
9. Toilets without sewerage - These energy-efficient toilets process the waste directly on site without a sewer system, which is particularly useful in emerging countries.
10. Better language understanding with AI assistants - New technologies enable better detection of semantic relationships between words and facilitate language understanding in AI devices.

Click here for the interview MIT Review with Bill Gates.

 

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