Engineers made a plan for the 21st century

Reverse brain engineering , the extraction of electricity from thermonuclear , the improvement of virtual reality and the management of the nitrogen cycle - these are some of the list of the most important and completely solvable problems facing humanity for the next century. A list of 14 such global problems was published by the National Academy of Engineering of the USA. Experts from various fields of science, including the famous geneticist Craig Venter, futurologist Ray Kurzweil (committee chairman) and Google co-founder Larry Page, took part in its compilation.

Ray Kurzweil noted that an increasing number of areas of human activity are becoming areas of information technology. Now even health care and medicine are moving into the category of computational tasks. This means that the development of these areas is inevitably accelerated, since it begins to obey the law of accelerating the return on investment , which is a consequence of Moore’s law in relation to scientific and technological progress.

In addition to the four above, the plan for the century contains the following items.
Make solar energy economical
Develop automatic tools for scientific discoveries
Prevent nuclear terror
Secure cyberspace
Develop methods for extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Improve medical informatics
Provide access to clean water
Restore and improve urban infrastructure
Improve personal learning methods
Create the best medicines and medical devices