MIT Publishes 10 Breakthrough Technologies List For 2018

For the past 17 years MIT Technology Review has published a list of the "10 Breakthrough Technologies" for the forthcoming year. Two key benchmarks for defining "breakthrough" is mass commercial use and foreseeable mass commercial adoption. Some results for 2018 were predictable, namely, "3D Metal Printing" -- resulting in cheaper products due to lower manufacturing costs, "Cryptography" -- providing identity privacy thanks to cryptographic solutions like zero-knowledge proof led by developers a...