9 reasons to be optimistic about tech in 2020

While this will yield increased profits for companies who can effectively leverage these technologies into new business models, what makes these developments truly revolutionary is their ability to tackle some of the world's most pressing challenges, ranging from education to health. Experts and fellows from the World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution weigh in with their predictions for the most exciting ways in which new technologies will improve the state of the world in the coming year. When I was born in 1992, I arrived four months premature with every joint in my body bent together as tightly as possible -- from my head being pressed down on my right shoulder all the way down to my toes being pressed against the bottom of my feet and my ankles collapsed against the back of shins like a broken golf club. My twin sister had shared the same environment with me and was 100% healthy. There was only one culprit: a genetic mutation.