One of my favorite moments in 2018 – when SpaceX’s “Falcon Heavy” put “Starman” in space to drive a Tesla for eternity and the boosters stuck a double-landing.  Now here’s what I’m watching in 2019:

1. Fully autonomous cars offered for sale.
2. Permits to allow humans to be carried by autonomous drones.
3. Permits to allow single pilot operations in a “twin-aisle” cargo aircraft.
4. Permit to allow autonomous operation of a commercial aircraft.
5. George Bye’s Sunflyer will receive FAA certification.
6. Better batteries – Solid state batteries with a substantially higher energy density than current Li-ion batteries.
7. Solar panels with 2X efficiency of current panels.
8. Power Over Ethernet lighting – POE Lighting.
9. The first company to react to air quality complaints based on data from Plume Labs handheld air quality meters.
10. The normalization of deterministic and probabilistic applications for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as a patient analysis tool at the onset of a visit to a Doctor’s office (or no visit at all).
11. The first announcement about a patient cured with CRISPR technology.
12. Widespread 5G deployment (50% coverage in top 5 markets) then 50% in top 25 markets, then 100% in top 25 markets.
13. The first company to be charged under the EU’s new Global Data Privacy Regulation – GDPR
14. De-dollarization.
15. College tuition costs to decline more than 25% and the Future of Education from Peter Diamandis.
16. The Best of CES 2019.
17. MIT’s Technology Breakthrough list for 2019 – due sometime at the start of Q2 2019.