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What advancements should we be looking out for in tech products this year, like AI?

The concept here is that it's more conversational in style, hopefully more useful,

easier to find the information that you want. It's Tuesday, January 7th. As always, today is

Science Friday. I'm SciFRI producer Kathleen Davis. The tech world is always changing, and it can be hard to know what the

important things are to keep an eye on. Lucky for us, each year the MIT Technology Review publishes a list

of 10 breakthrough technologies. These are things that are poised to hit a tipping point and potentially

change the way the world works.

In the past, they've predicted the importance of things like wireless charging and reusable rockets, things that are being used a lot now.

So what do tech journalists want us to keep an eye on this year? Here's Arafledo.

Joining me to talk through some of this year's entries is my guest, Amy Nordrum,

executive editor of Operations at the fabled MIT Technology Review, based in Boston,

Massachusetts.

Welcome back to Science Friday.

Thanks, Ira.

Great to be here.

All right.

Before we get into the list, can you give us a peek behind the curtain? I mean, how are these

breakthrough technologies chosen by your team? Sure. It's a process that takes us several months every

year. Everybody on staff pitches ideas and we're looking for technologies that are having what we

call a breakthrough moment, which can mean a couple different things.

It could be for a new medical treatment, for example, that it's passed an important regulatory

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