MIT Tech Review Releases Top 10 Technologies for 2020

In case you hadn't heard, MIT does tech. And MIT Technology Review writes about emerging tech. The publication recently released its top 10 breakthrough technologies for 2020 that "will make a real difference in solving important problems." The major themes:

• Quantum: Unhackable internet, i.e. quantum secure networking. And "quantum supremacy," a feat Google claimed it reached last year.
• Healthcare: Hyper-personalized medicine, AI-discovered molecules, and anti-aging drugs.
• Space: Satellite mega-constellations. See: SpaceX, OneWeb, etc.
• Finance: Digital money like Facebook's Libra.
• Environment: Climate change attribution, using supercomputers and satellite data to track extreme weather events
• Consumer: "Tiny AI" algorithms that run on mobile devices. And differential privacy, an AI technique to keep data anonymized.

This list focuses on applications of emerging technologies in business and society, rather than the tech itself. Watch these spaces.