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Bill Gates has chosen the technological advances that will improve the world
The list is published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which selects and publishes in its magazine the top 10 of technological innovations, but in 2019 invited the co-founder of the software multinational, to make the choices.
The US billionaire and philanthropist also chose robotic dexterity, energy produced by fusion and nuclear fission, diagnostic blood tests for premature babies, ingestible capsules that pick up images of the gut, machines that 'catch' carbon dioxide, the sanitas that treat 'in situ' the waste and the programs of artificial intelligence of conversation.
There are ten inventions that will make the talk in 2019 and change the world for the better, according to the tycoon. The subject is the cover of the March / April issue of MIT magazine, which describes the innovations in its digital edition.
The "Dactyl" robot, created in the United States, "learned" to turn a cube-shaped toy between his fingers, a dexterity that can be improved to perform tasks at home or in a factory.
Unlike chemotherapy that targets healthy cells, personalized cancer vaccines that are being tested in patients can cause the body's natural defenses to destroy only tumors by identifying them for their unique genetic errors.
A simple blood test will allow doctors to identify women who are prone to premature birth and take steps to prevent the birth of a premature infant and give them more chances of survival by detecting variations in the expression of seven genes that are associated premature births. One company, Akna Dx, was established in the United States to market the test.
Also in the United States hamburger with pea, soybean, wheat, potato and vegetable oil is already made to mimic the texture, nutritional value and flavor of the meat. In the Netherlands we work on meat production in the laboratory, a method that involves the extraction of muscle tissue from animals to grow it in bioreactors. In Pakistan, where certain inflammatory bowel diseases prevail, the use of a capsule to capture images of the intestine was tested in young people.
The capsule, which has a tiny microscope, can be easily swallowed, even by children, because of its small size and allows to examine and detect lesions in the intestine and other organs of the digestive system without the discomfort of an endoscopy or colonoscopy without anesthesia, according to with pathologist and bioengineer Guillermo Tearney of the Massachusetts hospital where he created the device, which has, however, grabbed a flexible cable that provides light to the capsule and attaches to a monitor where the images viewed by the patient are reproduced. doctor.
The use of carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming, in the production of fuels or refrigerants is said to be one of the assets of machines capable of 'capturing' this polluting gas from the atmosphere, in addition to the effect of mitigating climate change .
The list of the ten most promising technological inventions selected by Bill Gates is not complete without the toilets that do not need to be connected to sanitation or water systems and that turn waste into fertilizer by heating them in a compartment to generate a substance rich in carbon.
There are also artificial intelligence systems that have 'learned' to detect the absence of words in a text while 'studying' millions of sentences.
Systems like this, combined with better voice synthesizers, can power new artificial intelligence programs that allow machines to keep a conversation with people and not simply respond to an order. Lusa Agency