Moving an airplane on its own without moving parts.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/21/first-ever-p...

That is the future of aerospace right there.

Turbulence on a bad boy that light would not be fun.

Indeed. Still it is the beginning in either case.

With this propulsion technique you potentially break free from the traditional designs and can fly into any given direction.

what?

today's planes can fly in any direction?

Technology is incremental these days, even with the flood of news and development it's hard to see actual technological changes in the past few years.

For everything you can suggest, someone will have an example of how it was technologically possible 3 years ago...

I guess it's obvious but from 3 years ago; hardware is faster, cheaper, and software is easier to develop...

Using optics to detect radio signals, perhaps? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611977/get-ready-for-atom...

Also, a tongue in cheek answer, being able to get a company into big trouble for mishandling data via the GDPR ;-)

Real time raytracing? https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080...

Getting scammed by an "ICO", perhaps?

The use of the immune system to target cancer for clinical use.

Buying a mobile phone with a large notch at the top of the screen?

- Crispr gene editing. - responsive computer brain interface - building a value layer in top of tcp/ip - AR/VR taking off - today.

Deep learning for the masses, thanks to cheap GPUs?

What would technologically be possible in 3 years from now? :) Sounds more like a million dollar question.

Fully mobile banking solutions? Revolut, N26, Monzo...

Technologically this was possible a decade ago or more.

This was an issue with mindset (the old banks don’t want to invest in user experience) and the huge barrier to enter the banking market.

Presidents can tweet about grabbing pussies.

No they can't! That alleged incident was over a private chat, not a public tweet.

Malicious Attacks by JavaScript

quantum computing, maybe?

I still haven't seen any applications of qc, one day...

Breaking common encryption is the usually cited use case.

Maybe, but it doesn't look like quantum computers are yet able to break any form of encryption.

that's still theoretical IIRC