Jedes Jahr stellen die Autoren von Technology Review eine Liste mit den wichtigsten kommenden Technologien der nächsten fünf Jahre zusammen. “Dies sind Arbeiten, die darauf warten das Labor zu verlassen”, so die Autoren. Die Einsatzgebiete der neuen Technologien beziehen sich u. a. auf die Bereiche Energie, Computerhardware und Software, Biologisches Imaging. Zwei der Technologien – Cellulolytische Enzyme und atomare Magnetometer – sind Anstrengungen von führenden Wissenschaftlern, kritische Probleme zu lösen.

Fünf Technologien- Surprise Modeling, Connectomics, Probabilistic CMOS, Reality mining, and Offline Web Applicationen- sind neue Sichtweisen zu Problemen. Drei Technologien – Graphene transistoren, Nanoradio, and Wireless Power- sind faszinierende Anwendungen, die es bisher gar nicht gab.

Top 10

Wireless Power

Marin Soljacic, assistant professor of physics at MIT, talks about his vision for wireless power transmission.

Cellulytic Enzymes

Frances Arnold, a professor of chemical engineering and biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, talks about the challenges of creating biofuels.

Connectomics

Harvard neuroscientist Jeff Lichtman talks about the fledgling field of connectomics — an attempt to create complete wiring diagrams of different parts of the brain.

Reality Mining

Alex ( Sandy ) Pentland, director of the Human Dynamics Group at MIT, describes a future in which cell phones log data about their owners’ behavior.

Atomic Magnetometers

Physicist John Kitching explains what his sensitive magnetic detectors do and how they work.

Graphene Transistors

Walter de Heer, a professor of physics at Georgia Tech, explains how grapheme can be used to make ultrafast transistors.

Modeling Surprise

Eric Horvitz, head of the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research, talks about surprise modeling.

Nanoradio

Alex Zettl’s tiny radios, built from nanotubes, could improve everything from cell phones to medical diagnostics. See and hear the Nanotube radio.

Offline Web Applications

Kevin Lynch, chief software architect at Adobe, talks about a new generation of Web applications.

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.