IEEE Report Predicts Tech That Will Transform Lives

By 2028, genetic engineering and gene therapy will be used frequently to treat a variety of diseases, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, according to the recently released 2030 Technology Megatrends Report from IEEE.“We are seeing a fundamental shift in how technology evolves,” says IEEE Fellow Dejan Milojicic, chair of the IEEE Future Directions Committee’s Industry Advisory Board, the group responsible for the report. “Artificial intelligence is no longer operating in a vacuum; it is now deeply connected to our energy, infrastructure, and physical systems.” Milojicic, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow, is a vice president at HPE Labs in Milpitas, Calif.AI underpins many of the report’s 30 technologies and five “megatrends,” which are technology shifts with the potential to reshape industries and everyday life for decades. A megatrend isn’t a single breakthrough but a collection of related technologies.For the 2030 report, 166 experts—from 38 countri