MIT Picks Top 10 Emerging Technologies

DeviceGuru writes "MIT's Technology Review magazine has just published its annual list of the top ten emerging technologies. Dubbed the TR10, these revolutionary innovations are poised to have a dramatic impact on computing, medicine, nanotechnology, our energy infrastructure, and more, say the magazine's editors. The TR10 technologies this time around are: cellulolytic enzymes, reality mining, connectomics, offline web apps, graphene transistors, atomic magnetometers, wireless power, nanoradio, probabilistic chips, modeling surprise. More details on the TR10 appear in the March/April edition of Technology Review."

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my take

[Ralph Spoilsport]

Modeling Surprise

All this does is move the goal post. It's crap. Insurance companies will dump millions into it only to find that surprises still happen. Hurricanes plow into cities. Cities drown. The govt is too incompetent to help, so it farms it all out to their buddies in related industries. Naomi Wolf can tell you how such Modeling surprise ideas would work for Certain People.

Probabilistic Chips

This is not revolutionary or even interesting, as we teeter on the brink of optical computing.

NanoRadio

Great. Now head lice can listen to Coldplay. I'm so happy I could just plotz.

Wireless Power

Great. Plug in the cellphone, go to bed and the thing will zap bugs all night. And your cat.

Atomic Magnetometers

Fine - piss all this money into that, but defund free clinics, let people die from treatable diseases, etc. jusst because they're uninsured. Frankly, I could do with a little more focus on basic preventive health and health maintenance work, and a little less medical techno heroics. the tech stuff is easy because you don't have to care. dealing with some pregnant 14 year old from the ghetto, now that takes some attention...

Offline Web Applications

Oh lordy bullshit. It's just Adobe trying to find ways to keep people from stealing photoshop.

Graphene Transistors

But will it make my porn look better?

Connectomics Wanna get rid of autism? Don't let a kid watch TV or use a video game until he's 10. That would clear up a good 20% of the autism AND ADHD cases would disappear. The rest of the autistics? They're tards. It's why we invented factories and WalMart. They need to work somewhere.

Reality Mining

Ummm yeah - and considering the govt is reviving the Big Brother Machine it'll be so much easier to monitor your every thought, and you can change your name to THX1138, or LUH1734 if you're a girl...

Cellulolytic Enzymes

Sure - until some tiny bacteria crittur finds it tasty and infects the vats. Biofuels = genocide.

So that about raps it up for this years techno wankfest. Thanks for tuning in! Come back next year for yet another pile of misguided wishful thinking posing as science. Til then, buh bye!

RS