10 Technological Discoveries of 2019, according to Bill Gates

For the past 18 years, MIT Technology Review has published an annual list of 10 successful technologies that it believes will have the greatest long-term impact on society. This year, Bill Gates helped maintain the election. Investors and philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates are known for comprehensive futuristic predictions in their annual letter. In 2015, they predicted that by 2030, 2 billion people who do not have a bank account today will save money and make payments through their phones. By 2035, poor countries will no longer exist, they write in their 2014 annual letter. For the Technology Review list, Bill's predictions fall into three categories: climate change mitigation, health care, and artificial intelligence. And they go from technologies that are hitting the commercial market to those that are still in search. (It is worth noting that the Gates couple have funded a number of these technologies).

This year's list:

1. Robot skill. Robotic hands that are best equipped to manipulate unknown objects.

2. New wave nuclear power. Advanced melting and fixing reactors that can help reduce carbon emissions.

3.Predicting premature birth. A blood test can predict if a pregnant woman is at risk for premature birth.

4. Master in a pill: A small, versatile device that can capture images of the gut without anesthesia (even in children and babies).

5. Ordinary cancer vaccines. A treatment that uses the body’s immune system to identify a tumor from its unique mutation, which can effectively shut down many types of cancer.

6. Burger without beef. Vegetable and laboratory-based meat alternatives that could drastically reduce carbon emissions.

7. Carbon dioxide collector. Technologies that can capture carbon dioxide from the air and exploit it in new ways.

8. An ECG in your wrist. Technology advances and allows people to constantly monitor their hearts by being equipped with apparatus.

9. Sewerage without sewers. Energy efficient toilets that can operate without a sewer system and treat waste in the country in the developing world. (More than 2 million people do not have access to a clean toilet, according to Gates 2019. annual letter)

10. Conversation by Artificial Intelligence assistants: New developments in capturing semantic connections between words are making devices better understand natural language.

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