Publication/Creation Date

February 27 2019

Creators/Contributors

Bill Gates (creator)
Stephen Quake (contributor)
Stanford University (contributor)
Massachusetts General Hospital (contributor)
Guillermo Tearney (contributor)
Maastricht University, Netherlands (contributor)
David Keith (contributor)
OpenAI (contributor)
Google Inc. (contributor)
Withings (contributor)
Apple Inc. (contributor)
AliveCor (contributor)

Description

Bill Gates is a guest curator for MIT Technology Review's '10 Breakthrough Technologies'. He reflects, "I wanted to choose things that not only will create headlines in 2019 but captured this moment in technological history—which got me thinking about how innovation has evolved over time".

Some of his choices include ingestible pills for capturing images of the gut and diagnosing an inflammatory illness (Massachusetts General Hospital's Tethered Capsule Endomicroscopy), more advanced robot dexterity using reinforcement learning (OpenAI's Dactyl), custom cancer vaccines, ECG/EKG-enabled smartwatches (AliveCor's KardiaBand, Withings' Move), and more advanced AI personal assistants (like Google Duplex). 

Location on Body

Digestive Tract, Wrist

Augments

Swallowing, Seeing, Viewing, Diagnosing, Treating, Finding, Preventing, Predicting, Improving, Communicating

Technology Keywords

Ingestible Capsules, Tethered Capsule Endomicroscopy (TCE), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Electrocardiography (ECG), Smartwatches, Biotechnology, Robotics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Neural Networks, Heart Rate (HR) Monitors, Bidirectional Encoder Representations From Transformers (BERT)

Keywords

Innovation, Research , Medical, Health, Environment , Cancer, Babies, Pregnancy, Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA), Food, Heart Rate

Marketing Keywords

OpenAI, OpenAI Dactyl, Google, Google Duplex, BioNTech, Genentech, Apple, Apple Watch, AliveCor , AliveCor KardiaBand, Withings, Withings Move ECG, Alibaba, Amazon

Source

https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/technologies/2019/