2020's Top 10 Tech Innovations

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Scientific American

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🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Scientific American and the World Economic Forum sifted through more than 75 nominations for the most innovative and potentially game-changing technologies in 2020. The final top 10 span the fields of medicine, engineering, environmental sciences and chemistry. And to win the nod, the technologies must have the potential to spur progress in societies and economies by outperforming established ways of doing things. They also need to be novel (that is, not currently in wide use) yet likely to have a major impact within the next three to five years. Here’s your guide for the (hopefully) near future. Read the full report here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.7	Hello and welcome to a very special episode of this podcast brought to you from Scientific American and the World Economic Forum. I'm Robin Pomeroy, digital editor at the World Economic Forum. And I'm Jeff Delvisio, senior multimedia editor at Scientific American. On this podcast, we'll be telling you about the top 10 emerging technologies, 10 inventions, ideas, or concepts that are set to transform
0:56.2	the way we live and work in the next three to five years.
0:59.5	So this list was compiled in a report produced jointly by Scientific American and the World
1:04.0	Economic Forum.
1:05.6	And joining us to talk about that list are two people who led the work.
1:09.2	Perhaps you can introduce yourselves?
1:11.2	Thanks a million, Jeff and Robin. It's great to be here. Mariette de Christina. I'm currently the
1:15.8	dean at the College of Communication at Boston University. And until about a year ago, I was the editor-in-chief
1:22.6	at Scientific American. Lovely to be here. Thanks for having me. Hi, I'm Bernie Meyerson. I've spent 40 years with
1:30.0	IBM, have a long history, and continue to work with them as the Chief Innovation Officer
1:33.8	Emeritus. I've worked for numerous years at this point with Mariette, the World Economic Forum,
1:40.5	a whole series, frankly, of other governments that I've helped in terms of just, shall we say,
1:47.1	bringing technology and innovation to a head. So I'm delighted to be here on this call.
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