Near-term break-thru technology – special about 21st

All looks the same on exponential curve – impossible to predict future, time line or even otherwise. 10 predictions of MIT review I respect, and 5 of my own!

Practical Quantum Computers

Advances at Google, Intel, and several research groups indicate that computers with previously unimaginable power are finally within reach.

Current moment in quantum computing is like the earliest days of the transistor, which had its first breakthrough success in hearing aids before going on to larger things.

“They didn’t imagine you could get 50 billion onto a chip and do all this other stuff,”

(The Canadian company D-Wave already offers a chip with quantum properties to industrial and academic researchers, but it isn’t clear whether the device offers the benefits expected of quantum computers.) [They make adiabetic QC, not Shor-capable QC, which is what ALL the big players are after - 49 qubits is quantum supremacy, 20-30 qubits useful, Google target i n 1 year!)

Microsoft is betting on a less mature form of quantum hardware than IBM and Google (see “Microsoft’s Quantum Mechanics”), but it has one of the most advanced efforts to develop practical quantum algorithms. Chemistry and materials science are among of its  primary areas of focus. The group’s researchers have recently tried to show how hybrid systems in which a conventional computer and a small quantum computer work together could simulate chemistry.

“It has great promise for studying molecules,” says Krysta Svore, who leads Microsoft’s group working on quantum algorithms. Looking for new, practical superconducting materials is one possible application of the hybrid model that shouldn’t require very large quantum computers, she says. Conventional computers struggle to replicate the quantum behavior of electrons that underpins superconductivity.

Reversing Paralysis

Scientists are making remarkable progress at using brain implants to restore the freedom of movement that spinal cord injuries take away.

Self-Driving Trucks

Tractor-trailers without a human at the wheel will soon barrel onto highways near you. What will this mean for the nation’s 1.7 million truck drivers?

Paying with Your Face

Face-detecting systems in China now authorize payments, provide access to facilities, and track down criminals. Will other countries follow?

The 360-Degree Selfie

Inexpensive cameras that make spherical images are opening a new era in photography and changing the way people share stories.

Hot Solar Cells

By converting heat to focused beams of light, a new solar device could create cheap and continuous power.

Gene Therapy 2.0

Scientists have solved fundamental problems that were holding back cures for rare hereditary disorders. Next we’ll see if the same approach can take on cancer, heart disease, and other common illnesses.

The Cell Atlas

Biology’s next mega-project will find out what we’re really made of.

Botnets of Things

The relentless push to add connectivity to home gadgets is creating dangerous side effects that figure to get even worse.

Reinforcement Learning

By experimenting, computers are figuring out how to do things that no programmer could teach them.

Next my predictions, based on my interests

Entanglement+ Quantum state internet

DESTROYS ALL the hacker criminals, hence the need for FACE recognition and botnet internet of thing postulated above.

Transfection based Life enhancement to the first singularity in improved againg

Transection is August 2017 development by Sen in Ohio. Essentially it programs skin-cells into required cells and waits for natural processes to flow them into needing places. Sidesteps THE big problem of rejection! You can even grow brain cells on skin. Harvest them; inject them into brain, for attacking Parkinson, essential tremor, Alzheimer’s etc. Piggy-backs on 20-30 qubit quantum-computers available on cloud to Biologists for RNA needed.

Reliable identity

Based on my work of square-rooting 1000+ bit integers for multi-identities hidden behind single unshared quantum computer-proof encryption.

Reliable letters

Letters carrying pre-proved facts based on my work. A letter could be automatically solely reduced to vector of certified proven facts automatically,

Solar only Energy

Either from wind, or huge collector forms, it is kept in cheap storage, used for appliances, factories and transport. Piggy-backs on 20-30 qubit quantum-computers available on cloud to chemists or penetrating the quantum mysteries of photo-synthesis..