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10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World

February 2004

Technology Review unveils its annual selection of hot new technologies about to affect our lives in revolutionary ways-and profiles the innovators behind them.

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Features

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Gadgets in the Superchip Age
Novel chip designs and manufacturing techniques keep the 40-year computing explosion going strong. What consumer devices will they enable?
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Can Pfizer Deliver?
Despite skyrocketing R&D spending, pharmaceutical companies’ drug output has slowed dramatically. Pfizer is counting on creative new technologies to keep the pipeline full.
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Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die
From typewriters to vacuum tubes, these 10 technologies aren’t as obsolete as you might think.

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- Thinking about Thinking
  From the editor in chief
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- Letters
  Insights and opinions from our readers
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- Shocking Genes
  In a technique that could overcome a major hurdle to gene therapy, small electric jolts push therapeutic genes into the cells that need help.
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- Lighting up Lungs
  To get crystal clear MRI pictures of the lungs, just take a deep breath–of helium.
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- Data Remedy
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- Accentuate the Positive
  New software analyzes human speech to tell when a person is irritated or impatient.
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- Glowing Silicon
  A chip that combines optics and electronics generates light 100 times more efficiently than previous devices.
  Categorized in 17032
- Glass Micromachines
  Computer-guided laser beams create microscopic 3-D structures.
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- Tissue Tester
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- Good Vibrations
  Who needs batteries? Small gadgets could draw power from the tiny tremors in your office or car.
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- Nano’s Safety Checkup
  Concerns over particle dangers could slow nanotech’s growth.
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- Digestive Diagnostics
  The latest biotech “-omics,” metabolomics, could lead to earlier detection of a wide array of diseases.
  Categorized in 17035
- Alternative to Incineration
  Hot plasmas could dispose of toxic waste and produce hydrogen, without the harmful byproducts of combustion.
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- Wearable Devices Add Strength
  Robotic “power pants” use sensors and artificial muscles to give you an extra jolt of strength.
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- Hip Checker for Easier Surgery
  New hip-replacement technology allows smaller incisions, reducing pain and speeding recovery.
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- Old Logs, New Tricks
  Software that analyzes system log files could help automate computer networks.
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- Walk the Talk
  Al Gross’s 1938 invention of the walkie-talkie launched mobile communications.
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- Demo: Seamless Surveillance
  Sarnoff shows how to turn the feeds from many surveillance cameras into a unified 3-D scene.
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- The Robots Are Here
  Robots today are where computers were in 1978; soon, they’ll be as pervasive as the Web.
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- Deciphering Cars
  Consumers have a right to know the diagnoses made by their cars’ onboard computers.
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- VIPs: Virally Interactive Pixels
  Millions of Japanese schoolgirls can’t be wrong: there’s always a market for instant gratification.
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- Valid Voting?
  Stanford University computer scientist David L. Dill on the security of electronic voting.
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- Cooling Off Computers
  Cooligy’s micromachined system chills chips, paving the way for faster, more powerful computers.
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- High-Definition Television
  The 1s and 0s of high-definition television, standard in U.S. home theaters by 2006.
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Magazine

10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World

Features

Gadgets in the Superchip Age

Can Pfizer Deliver?

Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die

Thinking about Thinking

Letters

Shocking Genes

Lighting up Lungs

Data Remedy

Accentuate the Positive

Glowing Silicon

Glass Micromachines

Tissue Tester

Good Vibrations

Nano’s Safety Checkup

Digestive Diagnostics

Alternative to Incineration

Wearable Devices Add Strength

Hip Checker for Easier Surgery

Old Logs, New Tricks

Walk the Talk

Demo: Seamless Surveillance

The Robots Are Here

Deciphering Cars

VIPs: Virally Interactive Pixels

Valid Voting?

Cooling Off Computers

High-Definition Television

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