Within five years, several emerging technologies will become mainstream and help address major challenges. Small autonomous AI microscopes deployed around the world will continually monitor plankton to anticipate ways to protect water supplies. Quantum computing will be used extensively to solve problems previously considered unsolvable, with IBM continuing to lead in this area. New solutions will counter a substantial rise in biased AI systems, with one method reducing bias in training data to minimize inequity in systems that learn from that data.