Many of the technologies that made their debut back then have now profoundly changed our lives. However, as long as there are problems, someone will step up to solve them.īeginning twenty-one years ago, MIT Technology Review released its annual '10 Breakthrough Technologies' list. Many previously unresolved issues are becoming increasingly impossible to ignore: the application of artificial intelligence in industry and science is encountering practical difficulties, and the mining of cryptocurrencies, which many believe represents the future of human finance, already emits more greenhouse gases than a medium-sized developed country. In addition, the information technology revolution, which has brought us great surprises in previous years, has entered a 'deep water' area that needs to be overcome.

The latest data show that it will only take two decades for climate change to reduce global GDP by nearly 20%. Just one extreme weather event can wipe out a year of GDP growth in a developed economy.

Over the past few years, records for the 'worst natural disasters' and 'highest temperatures' in history have been set around the globe. On the other hand, the threat of climate change to our lives is becoming more and more pronounced. Malaria, one of the most horrific killers in human history, is making a comeback in places where half the world's population lives. The ravages of the New Coronavirus have compounded the difficulty of fighting other diseases. Infectious diseases are no longer just a moniker for less developed regions, but a real crisis that has claimed millions of lives worldwide. On the one hand, the new crown epidemic has revealed to us that everyone is equal before the disease. In the past year or two, the world we live in has undergone an unprecedented and dramatic transformation.

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