Representatives attending a release ceremony of world leading internet scientific and technological achievements pose for a group photo at the 3rd World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 16, 2016. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
WUZHEN, Zhejiang, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Technology is changing the world we live in, from supercomputers able to replicate a human's ability to answer questions to ultra-secure communication tools that make wiretapping or interception impossible. The future, it seems, has arrived.
The World Internet Conference (WIC), which is currently in session in the eastern province of Zhejiang, presented 15 emerging technologies that have the potential to, and some of which already have, fundamentally change our lives.
Headed by foreign chair Bob Kahn, Turing award winner and one of the principle architects of the Internet; and Chinese chair Wu Hequan, academician and optic fiber specialist from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the committee of 33 technologists from home and abroad whittled down the short list to just 15 from about 500 entries, submitted by companies and research institutes over the past year.
Here are some of their choices:
