Every year the MIT Tech Review publishes a list of the ten breakthrough technologies. This year, it has invited Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as their first-ever guest editor of the list. In this article, we look at Gates' predictions for 2019.
creates the list every year, highlighting where it feels technological developments will most impact on human life, during the coming year.
The “cow-free burger” is another exciting addition to the list, demonstrating how high-tech and low-tech solutions can both help solve the same challenges – in this case, the vast amount of carbon emissions caused by the meat industry, and the contribution they make to climate change. As with most of the technologies highlighted by Gates, AI acts as an enabler in this industry, where algorithms could be trained to predict the most efficient placement of carbon capture machinery as well as understand and monitor the behavior of materials once they are deposited for storage.
“His choices highlight some of what he considers the most important challenges and opportunities of our time.”breakthrough list has been published every year since 2001, and in the past has highlighted ideas and technologies which are now commonplace, including cloud computing, instant messaging and self-driving vehicles.
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