Top 10 Tech Breakthroughs Coming in 2024 with MIT Technology Review

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🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Could 2024 be the year we start wearing computers on our faces en masse? Might scientists cure sickle cell patients and move to geothermal energy? The answer is yes, according to the MIT Technology Review. Each year, the journal publishes a list of its top 10 predictions of technologies that could make a lasting impact in the year to come. This year’s list focuses on advancements in health, green energy and computing. We’ll talk with editors and reporters from the magazine about what technological advances they expect to change our lives, and what technological promises probably won’t pan out. Guests: Will Douglas Heaven, senior editor for AI, MIT Technology Review Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine, MIT Technology Review Amy Nordrum, executive editor, MIT Technology Review Casey Crownhart, climate reporter, MIT Technology Review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.7	Last year, the capabilities of a new generation of artificial intelligences came bursting onto the world stage.
1:07.1	They sucked up a lot of the oxygen around the development of new technologies, and probably
1:11.8	rightly so. That said, the tech world is a lot broader and deeper than chat GPT and mid-jorney.
1:19.1	And this morning, we'll talk with editors and reporters from MIT Technology Review about what they
1:24.1	included in their annual list of breakthroughs and what didn't make the cut.
1:28.8	We'll talk CRISPR's first real human application, face computers, chiplets, and advanced geothermal systems.
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