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Ten entries. Every entry has Breakthrough / Why It Matters / Key Players / Availability. Quote is the Breakthrough line. horizon is a parsed band: 'now' or 'A-B years'. Person names dropped from key players.
Now printers can make metal objects quickly and cheaply.
available: Now · rank 1mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2018-001
Without using eggs or sperm cells, researchers have made embryo-like structures from stem cells alone.
available: Now · rank 2mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2018-002
A Toronto neighborhood aims to be the first place to successfully integrate cutting-edge urban design with digital technology.
available: Project announced October 2017; construction could begin in 2019 · rank 3mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2018-003
Cloud-based AI is making the technology cheaper and easier to use.
available: Now · rank 4mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2018-004
Two AI systems can spar with each other to create ultra-realistic original images or sounds.
available: Now · rank 5mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2018-005
Near-real-time translation now works for a large number of languages and is easy to use.
available: Now · rank 6mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2018-006
A power plant efficiently and cheaply captures carbon released by burning natural gas.
available: 3 to 5 years · rank 7mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2018-007
Computer scientists are perfecting a cryptographic tool for proving something without revealing underlying information.
available: Now · rank 8mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2018-008
Scientists can now use your genome to predict chances of getting heart disease, breast cancer, and even IQ.
available: Now · rank 9mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2018-009
IBM has simulated the electronic structure of a small molecule using a seven-qubit quantum computer.
available: 5 to 10 years · rank 10mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2018-010