Comment Section for 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 | MIT Technology Review

This MIT Technology Review article highlights ten breakthrough technologies predicted to have a significant impact in 2024. The technologies include: 1. AI for everything: With tools like ChatGPT becoming increasingly prevalent, major tech players like Google, Meta, and Microsoft are investing heavily in AI. 2. Weight-loss drugs: Amid a global obesity epidemic, new medications like Mounjaro and Wegovy offer promising treatments and can potentially even protect against heart attacks and strokes. 3. Enhanced geothermal systems: New drilling techniques are unlocking more of Earth's heat for clean, reliable, and virtually limitless energy. 4. Chiplets: As making transistors smaller becomes more challenging, chiplets, small, specialized chips that can be linked together, are being explored as a way to increase computing power and efficiency. 5. The first gene-editing treatment: A new treatment based on CRISPR, developed by Vertex, has received regulatory approval in both the UK and the US for curing sickle-cell disease. 6. Exascale computers: The world’s fastest supercomputers can now perform over an exaflop's worth of calculations, enabling more sophisticated simulations in various scientific fields. 7. Heat pumps: These devices, which both cool and heat buildings, could substantially reduce emissions if adopted more widely. 8. Twitter killers: After Elon Musk's drastic changes to the social media site now known as X, alternatives like Bluesky and Threads are gaining ground. 9. Robotaxis: Autonomous vehicles are expanding into new areas. 10. Thermal batteries, lab-grown meat, and SpaceX's Starship: These technologies are also highlighted, with thermal batteries and lab-grown meat particularly noted for their potential to decarbonize industry. The article also invites readers to vote for an 11th breakthrough technology to be revealed in April 2024.