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Special Report: 10 Emerging Technologies 2008
Technology Review presents 10 technologies that we think are most likely to change the way we live.
- Modeling Surprise
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Combining massive quantities of data, insights into human psychology, and machine learning can help manage surprising events, says Eric Horvitz.
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- Probabilistic Chips
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Krishna Palem thinks a little uncertainty in chips could extend battery life in mobile devices--and maybe the duration of Moore's Law, too.
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- NanoRadio
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Alex Zettl's tiny radios, built from nanotubes, could improve everything from cell phones to medical diagnostics.
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- Wireless Power
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Physicist Marin Soljacic is working toward a world of wireless electricity.
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- Atomic Magnetometers
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John Kitching's tiny magnetic-field sensors will take MRI where it's never gone before.
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- Offline Web Applications
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Adobe's Kevin Lynch believes that computing applications will become more powerful when they take advantage of the browser and the desktop.
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- Graphene Transistors
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A new form of carbon being pioneered by Walter de Heer of Georgia Tech could lead to speedy, compact computer processors.
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- Connectomics
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Jeff Lichtman hopes to elucidate brain development and disease with new technologies that illuminate the web of neural circuits.
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- Reality Mining
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Sandy Pentland is using data gathered by cell phones to learn about human behavior.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology