Technology in Perspective 01.13.24 | 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
MIT Technology Review unveiled its annual list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024. The list highlights the innovations that will have a profound impact on our lives — including AI for everything, the first gene-editing treatment, weight loss drugs, chiplets, and more. This week, we delve into five technologies on the list and why they matter.
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Generative-AI tools like ChatGPT reached mass adoption in record time, and reset the course of an entire industry. We now live in the age of AI. Hundreds of millions of people have interacted directly with generative tools like ChatGPT that produce text, images, videos, and more from prompts.
Sickle-cell disease is the first illness to be beaten by CRISPR as the technology reaches the market. In the final weeks of 2023, one from Vertex became the first to earn regulatory approval in both the UK and the US for its ability to cure sickle-cell disease, a life-threatening condition.
Don't let the name fool you. Heat pumps are electric appliances that can both cool and heat buildings, and wider adoption could substantially reduce emissions. Sales have increased around the world; in the US, they have surpassed gas furnaces for the first time. New types that run at higher temperatures could help decarbonize industry, too.
Elon Musk bought the site now known as X in 2022, and virtually nothing about it has been the same since. He fired most of the staff and dispensed with content moderation, scaring off advertisers and users alike. Now, as alternatives like Bluesky, Threads, and others gain ground, the central town square has given way to private rooms.
Don't let the name fool you. Heat pumps are electric appliances that can both cool and heat buildings, and wider adoption could substantially reduce emissions. Sales have increased around the world; in the US, they have surpassed gas furnaces for the first time. New types that run at higher temperatures could help decarbonize industry, too.
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