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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Is this worth much?

[The Ancients]

Is this so much the top 10 emerging technologies, or what TR find interesting?

"emerging" is ambiguous - does it mean technologies that will have a definite effect on our way of life, technologies that show promise as maybe some day becoming useful, or...? This seems a little hit and miss to me, although I guess by definition it has to be.

Re:Is this worth much?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, it's not. MIT's opinion is ridiculously overhyped. They were pushing VR like it was the second coming, and they ignored the WWW as it developed right under their noses. [Not going to look for the citation, if you were around back then, you remember it.] Their predictions only serve to identify what is over-hyped.

Most of these are totally ridiculous

[WillAffleckUW]

And I work in medical genetics and follow new technologies in energy and other fields, so I think somebody just did a braindump without thinking about what the implications are, quite frankly.

In 2001 #4 was Digital Rights Management

[KarmaRundi]

Just one paragraph given to the skeptics. http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/12264/?a=f