Technology Review's Briefings are primers on key emerging technologies that promise to be transformational in their impact.

Electricity

Introduction

The great electrification projects of the 19th and 20th centuries created a world where (at least in developed countries) electricity is as common as clean water. They also created a world addicted to fossil fuels. Globally, over 40 percent of electricity is generated from coal and another 20 percent from natural gas, releasing billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year.

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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.

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Technology Review Lists

TR50

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

Complete Genomics

Akamai

Goldwind Science and Technology

Zynga

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