A Look Back at the TR10
Your list of 10 emerging technologies ("TR10," March/April 2009) was interesting, but sometimes implausible as well. Grant me an indulgence and do this one small exercise.
Revisit the technologies you've profiled in previous TR10 issues--say, in 2006 or 2007. I think it would be quite startling to look at how many of those technologies given high praise have died, mutated, or become terminally stuck in an incubation period. How good was TR at making the right picks?
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