5 technologies that will change the world in the next 5 years

quantum computing

Today, quantum computing for researchers rather playground, but after five years they become familiar reality for professionals working on issues that once seemed unsolvable. Quantum computing will be developed throughout the universities and even (to some degree) at the level of high school.

Even today, IBM researchers have successfully modeled the atomic bond in the beryllium hydride (BeH₂), The most complex molecules ever simulated quantum computer. In the future, quantum computing will allow to solve much more complex problems, and eventually they will surpass anything that we can do with classic cars.

Cryptography and blokcheyn

64 boards with two computers / ibm.com

More recently, IBM introduced the chip size of the salt granule and cost about 10 cents. For computing power is comparable to the computers of the 1990s. It supports technology blokcheyna and can serve as a source of data for the respective applications.

In the near future, these tiny chips can be used as a "cryptographic anchor" for tracking the supply of goods, control of food safety, the identification of genuine luxury and so Further. Sami buyers will be able to trace the entire path of the goods from production to point of sale.

Cryptography on lattices

To keep pace with the times and new technologies, the IBM develops encryption methods that can surpass all existing records right now. A lot of hopes are pinned on postkvantovogo encryption method, a so-called lattice-cryptography, which is the complex of algebraic structures.

Crack the encryption is virtually impossible, even the future of quantum computers that will not under force, say the representatives of IBM. That is why this technology can be used to protect the most valuable data from hackers.

Robots microscopes with AI

Model microrobot / ibm.com

In the next five years with the help of artificial intelligence and robotics control can be taken as one of the most important problems of humanity - pollution of the oceans. Plans to introduce a whole network of autonomous microscopes signaliziruschih of adverse effects.

We are talking about united in a cloud and stationed around the world microrobot able to monitor the behavior of plankton. It biological plankton is a sensor which characterizes the content of harmful substances in the seas and oceans. Data on the movement of plankton allow much faster to determine changes in water composition.

Unbiased artificial intelligence

To bias the artificial intelligence will not soon become a real problem for IBM is already working on a system that can be trusted. The first is the AI, trained on data free of racial, gender, and ideological prejudices.

To this end, company researchers developed a method to reduce biasWhich can be used in a set of educational materials AI. Such an approach will create an objective system that will not contribute to the spread of inequality, IBM researchers believe.