Quantum computing, AI, China, and synthetics highlighted in 2020 Tech Trends report

The world's tech industry will be shaped by China, artificial intelligence, cancel culture, and a number of other trends, according to the Future Today Institute's 2020 Tech Trends Report. Now in its 13th year, the document is put together by the Future Today Institute and director Amy Webb, who is also a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. The report attempts to recognize connections between tech and future uncertainties like the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as the spread of epidemics like coronavirus. Among major trends in the report, 2020 will be the synthetic decade. "Soon, we will produce'designer' molecules in a range of host cells on demand and at scale, which will lead to transformational improvements in vaccine production, tissue production and medical treatments. Scientists will start to build entire human chromosomes, and they will design programmable proteins," the report reads.