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But, says Mr Azhar, right now such exponential progress can additionally be characteristic of different applied sciences which were supercharged by digitisation or advances in synthetic intelligence . These include photo voltaic cells, batteries, genome-editing, augmented actuality, 3D manufacturing, online enterprise, even electrical automobiles and urban farming—as properly as, alas, online misinformation, cybercrime and warfare.
