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The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2009

March/April 2009

Technology Review presents its annual list of 10 technologies that could change the way we live.

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Letter from the editor

Technology and Optimism

Features

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A Zero-Emissions City in the Desert
Oil-rich Abu Dhabi is building a green metropolis. Should the rest of the world care?
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But Who’s Counting?
No one really knows how many people visit websites. A San Francisco startup and Google are both working to change that.

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- Contributors
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- Letters From Our Readers
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- Global Health
  Medical tests for poor countries need to be properly field-tested.
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- Solving AI
  We need a new language for artificial intelligence.
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- Green Nuclear
  Why nuclear power should be part of the renewable-energy portfolio.
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- TB Drug Compliance
  Paper drug tests and text messaging could help thwart the most deadly strains of tuberculosis.
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- Nanotube Electronics
  Prototypes bring practical nanotube devices closer
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- Buzz Meter
  Data mining sheds light on what makes news.
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- Electric Avenue
  Amid a welter of high-profile announcements, electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids will remain rare sights.
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- Electric Vehicles and Plug-in Hybrids
  Amid a welter of high-profile announcements, electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids will remain rare sights.
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- The CAPTCHA Arms Race
  Researchers mull the next step in spam deterrents.
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- Networking Stays Connected
  Communications companies buck the fourth-quarter slide.
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- Physics: A Family Business
  Modern physics through the generations.
  
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- 180° Surveillance Camera
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- Volume-Limiting Headphones
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- 3-D Webcam
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- Pill ID
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- Internet Car Radio
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- One-Touch Data Backup
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- Portable Power
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- Energy-Saving Insulation
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- Eyelash Lengthener
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- America’s First CTO?
  Cisco’s Padmasree Warrior tells us what role a U.S CTO should play.
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- Growing Nanotube Forests
  Carefully grown carbon-nanotube arrays could be the basis of new energy-storage devices and chip-cooling systems.
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- Personalized Campaigning
  Fattened voter databases will be among the 2008 presidential race’s most enduring legacies.
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- A Hole in the Genome
  A small chunk of DNA linked to schizophrenia, mental retardation, and autism may change the way we think about disease.
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- Our Own Devices
  Why we love the machines we shouldn’t.
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- Sharing Fingerprints
  Hackers can manipulate outdated algorithms to give two very different documents the same digital signature.
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- Laser Show in the Surgical Suite
  Lasers and a century-old dye could supplant needles and thread.
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- How Lasers Can Heal Surgeons’ Incisions
  Lasers and a century-old dye could supplant needles and thread.
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- From the Labs: Materials
  New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in materials science–and what they mean.
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- From the Labs: Biomedicine
  New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in biomedicine–and what they mean.
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- From the Labs: Information Technology
  New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology–and what they mean.
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- A Dream in the Desert
  An architect’s quixotic but enduring quest to change the way we live
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- Explore Paolo Soleri’s Urban Laboratory in the Arizona Desert
  An architect’s quixotic but enduring quest to change the way we live.
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