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Sometimes I marvel at the speed our technology is advancing, from AI and medicine to the most

recent scientific breakthroughs and the newest tech.

But it's also hard to know which ones are just hype and which ones may be game changers.

Little did I know there's a whole magazine dedicated to this topic called MIT Technology Review.

We're a magazine that is focused on charting out the future of emerging technologies and seeing what's coming up on the horizon in areas like artificial intelligence, biotech, and climate change.

That's Amy Nordrum, an executive editor of the publication.

And she said a couple of decades ago, the editors were trying to make predictions about which emerging technologies would

be the most impactful that year, for better or for worse. They decided to make a list of their

top ten. We've done that annual exercise every year since. It's called 10 Breakthrough Technologies,

and it's our look at the future of tech and our attempt to say which of these emerging technologies our newsroom thinks matters most right now.

And they've made some spot-on predictions in their 24-year history.

In 2009, we put intelligent software assistance on the list.

Specifically, Siri, which was released in February 2010.

On their first list, they included natural

language processing, which is the AI technology that's underpinning chat GPT and generative

AI. Satellite mega constellations were on their 2020 list. One year they predicted virtual reality

headsets. Another year, they included data mining when you extract

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