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MIT Picks Top 10 Emerging Technologies

Posted by Zonk on from the emerge-you-might-techs dept.

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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  1. Check out the original by brianerst · · Score: 5, Funny

    Read the original, then steal all the best quotes and look like a genius...

    1. Re:Check out the original by courseofhumanevents · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nikola Tesla would like to have a word with you about "new" karma-whoring techniques.

  2. Offline web apps by Annymouse+Cowherd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Offline web applications, aka applications...

    1. Re:Offline web apps by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, all the undocumented apis and annoying workarounds of the web, now in your desktop app!

      Was talking to a guy the other day who said he was once going to write an xml/css/javascript rendering engine for wxWidgets. So the same app could run on your desktop or through a web browser and you never have to deal with web 2.0 crap.

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      How we know is more important than what we know.
  3. Re:Don't forget TR10: 2007 by Naughty+Bob · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have been busy... I was just trying to point out the ludicrous pointlessness of these lists. They will one day identify the slack, vinegary lobe of the human brain that gets juiced by the thought of top 10s. If I don't get to mine first with a soldering iron through the ear that is.

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    "Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
  4. It is an annual list, so... by i_liek_turtles · · Score: 2, Funny

    Probably last year.

  5. Re:just announced... two weeks ago. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    and Intel already tried making CPUs that give *mostly* right answers - I think it was called "Pentium".

    Instead, chips could be designed to produce the correct answer sometimes, but only come close the rest of the time.