Top 10 Emerging Tech of 2021
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Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is presented by eBay. |
| 0:03.7 | Rob, everyone loves a deal and a bargain from time to time, don't they? Absolutely, mate. And you know where you can grab a great deal? Talk to me. Where? The eBay app. Yes, you are correct. You didn't need to talk to me. I already knew it. I love eBay. When you're buying, you can discover loads of hidden gems. there's so many items where you think I would have never found that anywhere else. |
| 0:23.7 | Then when you're buying, you can discover loads of hidden gems. There's so many items where you think I would have never found that anywhere else. Then when you're selling, it's so simple and most |
| 0:25.9 | importantly, free. It's free, Rob. When it's this easy to sell for free and there's great deals |
| 0:31.6 | on things you love. You can't help but say when it's eBay. It excludes vehicles and business |
| 0:35.9 | sellers. It isn't just one technology, but it's eBay. It excludes vehicles and business sellers. |
| 0:43.9 | It isn't just one technology, but it's a host of technologies that need to come together to solve a really a global crisis. Welcome to a special episode of Radio Davos, brought to you jointly |
| 0:48.9 | by the World Economic Forum and Scientific American to look at the most promising technologies |
| 0:53.1 | that could change the world for |
| 0:54.5 | the better in the coming few years. I'm always interested in new advances that humanity seems to |
| 1:01.1 | endlessly churn out. Mariette de Christina, journalist and professor at Boston University, |
| 1:06.2 | helped put the annual emerging tech report together, along with IBM's chief innovation officer, |
| 1:11.7 | Emeritus, Bernie Meyerson. |
| 1:13.5 | This technology can be used for good. It can be used for evil. |
| 1:17.0 | And we damn well better pay attention to both of those issues. |
| 1:20.7 | Radio Davos is the podcast from the World Economic Forum that looks at the biggest challenges |
| 1:24.4 | and how we might solve them. Subscribe. Wherever you get your podcast, please leave us a rating or a review and join us on the World |
| 1:30.7 | Economic Forum Podcast Club on Facebook. |
| 1:33.8 | I'm Robin Pomeroy. |
| 1:34.9 | Join me and my co-host Sophie Bushwick, Scientific Americans Technology Editor, as we |
| 1:40.1 | look through the top 10 emerging technology of 2021. |
| 1:44.6 | That's why I'm optimistic, because people are going into these things now with their eyes |
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