The Biggest Breakthrough Technologies Coming This Year

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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A cattle supplement that cuts down on cow burps and thus, greenhouse gas emissions. Drugs that make it far easier to prevent AIDS and maybe end the disease altogether. Generative AI upending traditional search engines. These are just some of the advances that made MIT Technology Review’s 2025 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Writers and editors from the magazine join us to talk about how these technologies will progress this year and why they could be so impactful. Guests: Mat Honan, editor in chief, MIT Technology Review Allison Arieff, editorial director of print, MIT Technology Review Casey Crownhart, climate reporter, MIT Technology Review James O'Donnell, artificial intelligence reporter, MIT Technology Review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:24.1	Despite some recent events, there's progress happening in this world.
1:28.3	Every year, MIT Technology Review creates a list of their 10 breakthrough technologies.
1:34.3	The list spans the whole of the science and technology enterprise, from AI to climate, to biomedicine.
1:42.3	So today, the magazine's editors and write us will give us a tour through the near future,
1:47.7	from longer-lasting HIV prevention drugs to small language models,
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