MIT Technology Review Officially Released 2022 Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies in the World

In the past year or two, the world we live in has undergone an unprecedented and dramatic transformation.

On the one hand, the threat of climate change to our lives is becoming more and more pronounced. Over the past few years, records for the “worst natural disasters” and “highest temperatures” in history have been set around the globe. Just one extreme weather event can wipe out a year of GDP growth in a developed economy. The latest data show that it will only take two decades for climate change to reduce global GDP by nearly 20%.

On the other hand, the new crown epidemic has revealed to us that everyone is equal before the disease. Infectious diseases are no longer just a moniker for less developed regions, but a real crisis that has claimed millions of lives worldwide. The ravages of the New Coronavirus have compounded the difficulty of fighting other diseases. Malaria, one of the most horrific killers in human history, is making a comeback in places where half the world’s population lives.

However, as long as there are problems, someone will step up to solve them.

Since Bill Gates joined the selection in 2019, we have begun to focus more on new technologies that seek and enhance human well-being. A prime example of this is the mRNA vaccine (2021), a revolutionary, custom-developed vaccine technology that has saved hundreds of millions of lives in the New Crown epidemic.

This year is no exception.

The human “arsenal” is growing in the face of infectious disease. New Coronavirus mutation tracking technology is constantly monitoring the mutation of the virus, making it the most sequenced organism in history; easy-to-use oral New Coronavirus drugs are attempting to build a solid barrier against this disease and many more to come; and the malaria epidemic is on the rise again, with advances in malaria vaccines expected to reduce the death rate by as much as 70 percent.

In the face of climate change, humanity is finally beginning to tackle the challenge with unprecedented unity, courage, and determination. Long-term grid storage batteries are attempting to break through the cost bottleneck of batteries and make more renewable energy available to provide clean power for humanity; practical fusion reactors are one step closer to producing a nearly inexhaustible supply of safe, clean energy; and decarbonization plants are focusing on humanity’s historical emissions, hoping to put the carbon dioxide already released into the atmosphere back into the ground.

In computer and information science, progress has never slowed down, either: AI protein folding uses algorithms and arithmetic to solve a problem that has plagued the life sciences for 50 years; AI data generation attempts to confront a fundamental problem that has not received enough attention: data bias; terminal passwords promise to bypass already weak passwords and continue to keep our information secure; and PoS for cryptocurrencies proof-of-interest technology, on the other hand, attempts to disrupt old proof methods and make transactions significantly less energy-intensive.

Our judge, Bill Gates, is convinced that the future is still bright and we should continue to fight for a brighter future. We also hope that after reading the results of this year’s selection, you will feel the same way and gain the same strength.

The launch of MIT Technology Review’s “Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies in the World” in 2022 will be hosted by the Management Committee of Hangzhou Future Science and Technology City (HSTC) and co-organized by DeepTech.

Hangzhou Future Science and Technology City is one of the four major national science and technology cities, with several major science and technology innovation platforms, and is a gathering place for high-tech enterprises and high-tech talents. Especially in recent years, according to the strategic action plan of the new round of high-quality development, Hangzhou Future Science and Technology City focuses on the construction of a “cradle for the growth of thousands of talents, strategic allies of ten thousand enterprises, and industrial platform with trillions of revenue”, which is accelerating the gathering of talents and projects, and constantly bursting with innovative vitality, thus promoting the continued growth of economic strength.

The release of the “Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies” in 2022 will open up a new path for the Future Science and Technology City to build a high-end matrix of scientific and technological talents and seize the “peak” of science and innovation; at the same time, it will also accelerate the Future Science and Technology City to become the main engine of the national scientific and technological innovation curatorial function and the leading engine of high-quality economic development. the engine of national science and technology innovation and the main force leading the high-quality economic development.