Technological Breakthroughs That Can't Be Forgotten In 2017

The year 2017 saw some technological breakthroughs that will be remembered for so many years to come due to their amazing results.

There are technological breakthroughs which have changed our world today. Some of them are the airplane, computers, mobile phones, space travels, skyscrapers, electric cars, etc.

Here below are some that have caught our attention in 2017.

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. The 360-Degree Selfie
Inexpensive cameras that make spherical images are opening a new era in photography and changing the way people share stories.

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

7. 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.

Tablets with genetic code inside. Concept of the advancement of medicine in the treatment of diseases.

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

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

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

Source: Technologyreview.com

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