Engineers made a plan for the 21st century

Reverse engineering of the brain , production of electricity from thermonuclear fusion , improvement of virtual reality and management of the nitrogen cycle 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 issues was published by the US National Academy of Engineering. Experts from various fields of science participated in its compilation, including the famous geneticist Craig Venter, futurologist Ray Kurzweil (committee chairman) and Google co-founder Larry Page.

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 becoming computational tasks. This means that the development of these areas will inevitably accelerate, since it begins to obey the law of accelerating 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 points.
Make solar energy economical
Develop automatic tools for making scientific discoveries
Prevent nuclear terrorism
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 training methods
Create better medicines and medical devices