Certainly, here are some breakthrough technologies and systems with a big impact:
1. **Generative AI Tools**: We’re living in the AI age, whereby generative tools like ChatGPT ¹ create text, images, videos, and more from prompts. This has been their popular reshaping of the tech industry.
2. **Solar Panel Efficiency**: Solar power is an important cog in the decarbonisation wheel, but most of the sunlight that hits panels isn’t efficiently converted to electricity. Tiny crystals could hold the key to increasing solar panel efficiency.
3. **Apple’s Vision Pro Mixed-Reality Headset**: The device will ship this year, with the sharpest display so far on a mixed-reality headset. The question of the killer app remains open.
4. **Obesity Medications**: Mounjaro and Wegovy are superpower treatments for obesity, even against heart attacks and strokes.
5. **Geothermal Energy**: Improved methods of drilling not only provide better access to Earth’s heat but also unlock the potential of geothermal energy.
6. **Chiplets**: As transistors become more and more difficult to shrink, chiplets hold new ways to increase the speed and efficiency of computers through a linked array of small, specialized chips.
7. **CRISPR-Based Treatments**: Vertex’s CRISPR-based treatment for sickle-cell disease was given the nod by UK and US regulatory authorities, with many more such breakthroughs in the pipeline.
8. **Exascale Supercomputers**: Machines that operate on more than an exaflop of calculations per second, having capacitated sophisticated simulations in climate science, nuclear fission, and much more besides.
9. **Heat Pumps**: Electric heat pumps, both for cooling and heating buildings, could slash emissions.
Bear in mind that these technologies shape our world, and their influence will only continue to grow! ????¹
Source: Conversation with Copilot, 8/26/2024
(1) 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 | MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/01/08/1085094/10-breakthrough-technologies-2024/.
(2) MOST® Technology | Microchip Technology. https://bing.com/search?q=most+system+and+technology.
(3) MOST® Technology | Microchip Technology.