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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. Is this worth much? by The+Ancients · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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  2. Most of these are totally ridiculous by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  3. In 2001 #4 was Digital Rights Management by KarmaRundi · · Score: 3, Interesting

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