The World Wildlife Fund is projecting the further decline of the planet's biodiversity by a staggering 67% by 2020. While this is shocking, all hope is not lost. With initiatives like the Paris Climate Agreement, humanity is showing a willingness to reverse course.

Watson recommended treatment plans that matched suggestions from oncologists in 99 percent of the cases it analyzed and offered options doctors missed in 30 percent of them. AI could be revolutionary for healthcare as it can process many more research papers and case files than any human doctor could manage.

The government’s strong and unprecedented public support for self-driving cars comes from the nascent tech’s potential to solve some of our largest financial and public safety problems. These issues mostly stem from human error and related inefficiencies.

Author and researcher, Vivek Wadhwa, expects the tech industry to push medical science further than we have ever imagined. With the influx of tech's heaviest hitters tackling medical science ventures, focus has shifted from treatment to the total eradication of disease.