10 most unique technologies of the next decade

10 most unique technologies of the next decade 

 10 most unique technologies of the next decade 

Many technologies that will allow humanity to live in a completely different way in the future are being developed today.  Magazine Technology Review has presented a list of ten such technologies. Liga. Tech makes an abridged retelling of the main theses At the end of this year, scientists from the Netherlands are to complete work on a section of the quantum Internet, linking the cities of Delft and The Hague with new technology. After successful testing, the network will expand to four cities.

1. Unbreakable Internet

Based on quantum physics, the Internet will provide significantly more secure communications. It is assumed that it cannot be hacked at the current level of technology. Today, hacking of communications on the Internet is one of the biggest problems. Work on the quantum Internet has been going on for many years, for example, in China, a quantum communication channel has been created between Beijing and Shanghai, which is 2000 kilometers apart. However, such projects rely on classical electronic components, which is why the quantum bond periodically breaks.  The network created by Dutch scientists will be the first in which information is fully transmitted using quantum technologies. For this, a physical phenomenon like quantum entanglement is used. When an attempt is made to unauthorized access to transmitted information, the confusion is violated, and the data is distorted.

2. My medicine

However, such patients may receive hope for future recovery thanks to the advancement of genetic medicine. They will be able to receive personalized medicine that corrects their DNA. One of the first to experience hyperpersonal medicine was the eight-year-old girl Mila Makovec, who suffers from an incurable fatal disease of the nervous system.  In October 2019, doctors identified the place in the genes that causes the disease and created a cure. It did not completely heal the girl, but it stabilized her condition by allowing her to stand and walk with support.

3. Digital money

Financial privacy could improve in the coming years, and digital money will help it. Today in the world people are abandoning paper money, which makes it more difficult to buy and sell without the involvement of a financial intermediary. The social network Facebook is planning to launch digital money, which announced work on the Libra currency. Also, China may become one of the first large economies to launch its digital currency. The People's Bank of China (the country's central bank) is exploring the possibility of launching its digital currency and is considering it as a substitute for paper money.

4. Anti-aging agent

They are called senolytics and remove certain cells that accumulate with age. neighbors. Artificial Intelligence Drug Search Many substances can be drugs. According to rough estimates, this is 10 to the power of 60 (as many zeros after ten) molecules, which exceeds the number of atoms in the solar system. With information about the properties of molecules through machine learning technology, he will be able to quickly analyze new combinations and their potential use as drugs.

5. Satellite constellations

They weigh about 200 kg and the launch price is around $ 2,500 per kilogram. In the space shuttle era, launching a single satellite weighing several tons cost $ 200 million, or nearly $ 50,000 per kilogram. These cheap satellites can be used for a variety of purposes, and one of the most promising is to provide global Internet access. SpaceX is planning this decade to create a constellation of Internet satellites in orbit, the number of which will be 4.5 times more than the number of satellites launched by mankind.

6. Quantum supremacy

Traditional computers on silicon chips have reached their limits and the industry is awaiting a new breakthrough, which should be a quantum computer. It processes data in a completely different way, storing them in qubits Thanks to which it can solve complex problems that would take centuries for classical silicon computers. It is expected that quantum computers will allow breaking modern cryptography, as well as simulating the exact behavior of molecules, which will allow the discovery of new drugs and materials. Companies today strive to achieve leadership in the field of quantum computers (quantum supremacy). They are being developed by Google, IBM, Microsoft, Rigetti, D-Wave, IonQ, Zapata Computing, 

7. Quantum Circuits.

Google showed its 53-qubit computer, on which in three minutes they received an answer to a problem that the best today's supercomputer would solve for 10,000 years - 1.5 billion times longer. IBM said that the gap is not so huge - a classic supercomputer would count not billions, but thousands of times longer. So far, quantum computers are solving demonstration problems, and engineers have to learn how to use them to solve pTiny artificial intelligence

8. Tiny artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence found itself in a vicious circle. To become even more useful, it requires large computational resources and data arrays. Today artificial intelligence "lives" in huge data centers, and gadgets are connected to it via the Internet. The advent of special artificial intelligence chips will provide the necessary computing power. 

9. Differential privacy.

Internet users will remain anonymous thanks to differential privacy Anonymous tables of statistics, widely used today by scientists, companies, and organizations, in the right hands can reveal a person's identity. The differential privacy technique should help to overcome the problem. Its biggest use could be the 2020 US presidential election. The technique is the injection of incorrect data into statistical tables. For example, someone can become a pensioner, someone will change their sex to the opposite one. In this case, the sum of all data presented in the table remains unchanged. Today, differential privacy is used by Apple and Facebook, which collect data about users in a way that makes it impossible to identify individuals. The more such incorrect data in the tables, the more difficult it is to reveal the identities of the people mentioned in them. However, funny things happen, for example, in the 2010 US census, due to the use of a similar method, some apartments turned out to have 90 residents.

10. Understanding how climate change affects the weather

Climate change is causing significant changes in the weather, generating more powerful typhoons, floods, heatwaves, and other disasters. Scientists have begun to understand exactly how they are connected and what needs to be done to prepare. Previously, scientists were reluctant to associate weather disasters with climate change. Computer simulation helped to understand the relationship between climate change and weather. It was conducted by the World Weather Attribution group, whose members compared the simulation of a world without and with climate change. In the latter, the occurrence of destructive storms was 2.6 times more likely and they were 28% more powerful.