The question of quality is just as important as that of popularity, you see. After all, plenty of people have bought AirPods that are far from the best thing on the market. They’re the most famous because they are made by Apple, but they aren’t the greatest thing that’s been invented and they aren’t even the best headphones. Ultimately, ten years from now, most who bought them will consider them to be pretentious and overpriced. The best new technology that will take over the world, for the purpose of this article, is the most useful new tech that is also bound to become popular and commonly-used across a great portion of society. To find this, we must take a strange and wonderful journey through the world of discovery and innovation. Join me.
McGill University researchers have worked to develop hydrogels that function as artificial tissue. These are injected into areas such as the heart and vocal cords to act as tough, permeable substitutes while the tissue heals. I predict this technology will catch on due to its unique nature and the urgent need for tools to heal these sensitive parts of the body.
An mRNA-based HIV vaccine has shown potential, which suggests that, as long as it works in humans, it will be very effective. If people can be vaccinated for HIV, that will be a huge asset to the world of medicine.
A new state of matter, known as a time crystal, has been discovered. The implications of this are not quite clear but something like this is going to change our knowledge of matter and energy significantly, and that’s pretty important, don’t you think? It’s not actually a crystal made of time, it just has a pattern that repeats over time rather than space. Hence a time crystal. Not to be confused with the Time Stone from the MCU, or the Tesseract, with that in matter. Although a real-life tesseract is just a cube with a fourth dimension, and if you accept the line of thought that says time is the fourth dimension, maybe we could have a tesseract. Technically. But if it actually can take you anywhere via teleportation, forget it—my cousins and I are totally taking advantage of that at Christmas so we can all get to Grandma’s house from far away. Most humans won’t get one. Sorry.
There are plenty of more things I could write about, but it’s impossible to be aware of all the technology in the world right now so I’m not even going to try. It is important to know one’s limitations in order to avoid offering or promising too much and failing to deliver. I also limited the scope of this to things I found on ScienceDaily, but frankly small-name things in overly-specific industries are unlikely to take over the world. Technologies that don’t make it into prominent publications may have a large impact overall, but are unlikely to take over in terms of popularity (especially with the general public) if nobody has heard of them. This isn’t to say we shouldn’t dig into those lesser-known things and write about them, but this article is about ‘the best of the most popular,’ not ‘the best overall’.
Only time will tell us whether these technologies will truly take over the world, and if they will be the best of those that take over the world if they do. I hope this article has pleased you and maybe taught you something, and thank you for reading.