Ten Emerging technologies 2008

Technology Review presents the 10 technologies that they think are most likely to change the way we live.

1 Modeling Surprise Combining massive quantities of data, insights into human psychology, and machine learning can help manage surprising events, says Microsoft's Eric Horvitz.

2 Probabilistic Chips Krishna Palem thinks a little uncertainty in chips could extend battery life in mobile devices--and maybe the duration of Moore's Law, too.

3 NanoRadio Alex Zettl's tiny radios, built from nanotubes, could improve everything from cell phones to medical diagnostics.

4 Wireless Power Physicist Marin Soljacic is working toward a world of wireless electricity.

5 Atomic Magnetometers John Kitching's tiny magnetic-field sensors will take MRI where it's never gone before.

6 Offline Web Applications Adobe's Kevin Lynch believes that computing applications will become more powerful when they take advantage of the browser and the desktop.

7 Graphene Transistors A new form of carbon being pioneered by Walter de Heer of Georgia Tech could lead to speedy, compact computer processors.

8 Connectomics Jeff Lichtman hopes to elucidate brain development and disease with new technologies that illuminate the web of neural circuits.

9 Reality Mining Sandy Pentland is using data gathered by cell phones to learn about human behavior.

10 Cellulolytic Enzymes Frances Arnold is designing better enzymes for making biofuels from cellulose.

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Tech Pioneers 2008

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Sudden Climate Shifts Expected

Many of Earth's climate systems will undergo a series of sudden shifts this century as a result of human-induced climate change. A number of these shifts could occur this century. Society should not be lulled into a false sense of security by the idea that climate change will be a gradual process.

The work by an international team appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.