Future Computing

It can write most of it, but shipping is still a human responsibility. Coding agents build features, fix bugs and open pull requests unaided, and teams genuinely rely on them. Architecture decisions, subtle security issues and long-lived maintenance still need engineers in the loop.

For small, conventional apps, genuinely yes — a non-developer can now describe a tool and get something deployed that works. The gap appears later: security review, awkward edge cases, data modelling and the unglamorous maintenance that decides whether software survives its first hundred users.

For short clips, adverts and b-roll, yes — and it is already in commercial use. Sustained narrative video with consistent characters, dialogue and continuity across minutes remains difficult and needs heavy human editing.

Yes — printed homes are occupied in several countries. What is printed is usually the concrete wall structure; foundations, roof, services and fit-out remain conventional. Cost savings are real but smaller than headlines suggest.

No, not reliably. Detectors work reasonably on known generators and degrade badly on new ones, on compressed social media re-uploads and on partially edited media. Content provenance signing is the more promising route, and adoption is still partial.

Barely, and this is becoming the important question. As agents log into services and spend money, sites need to know which agent is acting, for whom, and within what mandate. The standards exist in draft; the deployed reality is mostly API keys and hope.

Barely. A small number of countries have approved cultivated meat products, sold in limited restaurants or trial retail. Production volumes are tiny and costs remain far above conventional meat, so this is a novelty rather than a supply chain.

For contrived benchmarks, sometimes; for work you would actually pay to have done, not yet. Error rates remain the wall. Error correction has improved enough that the roadmap looks credible rather than mystical, but commercially valuable quantum advantage has not arrived.

No. Researchers print tissue patches, cartilage, skin grafts and organoids used for drug testing, and a few simple structures have been implanted in trials. A printed, vascularised, transplantable kidney or heart is not close.

No. Current machines are far too small and noisy to factor real keys. The genuine near-term risk is 'harvest now, decrypt later', which is why post-quantum cryptography migration is already underway in serious organisations.

No. Experiments have achieved scientific energy gain in the reaction itself, which is a genuine milestone, but no facility produces net electricity for a grid. Commercial pilot plants are announced for the 2030s and those timelines have slipped before.