I can’t choose a single most important breakthrough, since different ones will be important in different ways. Here is what I hope for, and expect, on three fronts.
Fundamental physics – the search for new laws – will experience a new golden age, catalysed by the LHC. We’ll learn why the weak interaction is weak, and unify our descriptions of the (superficially) different forces of nature, and (superficially) different building blocks of matter.
At present, information processing is mainly based on manipulating electrons in two dimensions. We’ll augment our power by bringing in light and electron spin as information carriers within three-dimensional,…
