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Ten entries. Quote is the 'Why it matters' line. Every entry has an availability statement; some are not time bands ('This year', a census event).
The internet is increasingly vulnerable to hacking; a quantum one would be unhackable.
available: 5 years · rank 1mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2020-001
Genetic medicine tailored to a single patient means hope for people whose ailments were previously uncurable.
available: Now · rank 2mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2020-002
As the use of physical cash declines, so does the freedom to transact without an intermediary.
available: This year · rank 3mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2020-003
A number of different diseases, including cancer, heart disease, and dementia, could potentially be treated by slowing aging.
available: Less than 5 years · rank 4mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2020-004
Commercializing a new drug costs around $2.5 billion on average. One reason is the difficulty of finding promising molecules.
available: 3-5 years · rank 5mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2020-005
These systems can blanket the globe with high-speed internet—or turn Earth's orbit into a junk-ridden minefield.
available: Now · rank 6mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2020-006
Eventually, quantum computers will be able to solve problems no classical machine can manage.
available: 5-10+ years · rank 7mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2020-007
Our devices no longer need to talk to the cloud for us to benefit from the latest AI-driven features.
available: Now · rank 8mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2020-008
It is increasingly difficult for the US Census Bureau to keep the data it collects private.
available: Its use in the 2020 US Census will be the biggest-scale application yet · rank 9mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2020-009
It's providing a clearer sense of how climate change is worsening the weather, and what we'll need to do to prepare.
available: Now · rank 10mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2020-010