Credit: Sue Tallon

Communications

The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008

  • March/April 2008
  • By TR Editors

Technology Review presents its annual list of the 10 most exciting technologies.

   

Each year, Technology Review publishes its list of 10 emerging technologies that its editors believe will be particularly important over the next few years. This is work ready to emerge from the lab, in a broad range of areas: energy, computer hardware and software, biological imaging, and more. Two of the technologies--cellulolytic enzymes and atomic magnetometers--are efforts by leading scientists to solve critical problems, while five--surprise modeling, connectomics, probabilistic CMOS, reality mining, and offline Web applications--represent whole new ways of looking at problems. And three--graphene transistors, nanoradio, and wireless power--are amazing feats of engineering that have created something entirely new.

See All 10 Emerging Technologies 2008

 

To read the entire article you must log in:

Most of our content — all daily news, blogs, and videos — is free. Magazine stories are paid. To read this story, you must have a subscription or you must use a reading credit. Registration to Technology Review is free and entitles registrants to three free reading credits.

Username or REGISTER
Password  
   
 
Advertisement

MAGAZINE

Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs?

Manufacturing in the United States is in trouble. That's bad news not just for the country's economy but for the future of innovation.

Videos

Windows on an iPad

More

Advertisement

Technology Review Lists

TR50

Our list of the 50 most innovative companies, including the following:

Novomer

Groupon

PrimeSense

Layar

More

Advertisement

Facebook

Advertisement