Each year, Technology Review (TR) magazine lists hot new technologies with the potential to transform how we live and work. TR’s 2007 list touches on a lot of areas, including medicine, energy and the Internet. On the health care/biotech front, hot technologies include nanohealing, neuron control, and single cell analysis. All of these tools will help transform how we diagnose and treat diseases like Parkinson’s and depression. In the energy sector, quantum- solar dot power holds great promise. Quantum-dots are tiny crystals of semiconductors that are only nanometers wide. Their miniscule size allows them to interact with light in a more efficient manner, and may help make solar power more efficient and cost competitive. Finally, anyone who has logged onto YouTube will understand why TR also lists peer-to-peer video networks as an important emerging technology. As peer-to-peer video becomes more popular, the Internet backbone may not be able to efficiently handle the traffic. Peer-to-peer networks offer one tool to save bandwidth and enhance Internet capacity.
The Technology Review “Ten Emerging Technologies 2007” list appears in the March/April edition of Technology Review.
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