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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For the Top 10 Meaningless buzz words of 2008

[goatpunch]

just RTFA

"close enough is often good enough"

[Tablizer]

Palem has developed a way for chips to use significantly less power in exchange for a small loss of precision. ... chips could be designed to produce the correct answer sometimes, but only come close the rest of the time. Because the errors would be small, so would their effects: in essence, Palem believes that in computing, close enough is often good enough.

I liye thet ideb. Msre pow4r t8 Dr' Salem!