10 Emerging Technologies

MIT’s magazine Technology Review just came out with their list of top ten emerging technologies:

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This year our list of technologies that are worth keeping an eye on is particularly wide ranging – but all of our picks are ready to have a big impact on business, medicine or culture.

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Here is a list to the 10 technologies they selected (with links to descriptions of them all):

1. Epigenetics
2. Cognitive Radio
3. Nuclear Reprogramming
4. Diffusion Tensor Imaging
5. Universal Authentication
6. Nanobiomechanics
7. Pervasive Wireless
8. Stretchable Silicon
9. Comparative Interactomics
10. Nanomedicine

Each of these technologies has the potential to shape the future by expanding capabilities of materials, efficiency of data transfer, reducing costs of goods and services, extending lifespans, enhancing helath and reducing the cost of medical research, which should in turn spur additional innovation.

This kind of stuff gets both the engineer and the economist inside me excited!