MIT's Technology Review offered its Top 10 Emerging Technologies Trends for 2007 in an article from last week. This year's emerging trends includes:
- optical antennas -- a basic technology with potentially broad applications
- metamaterials -- another basic technology with potentially broad applications
- peer-to-peer video -- help save us from a bogged down Internet from the growth in video on the web
- personalized medical monitors -- can help to "simplify and improve medical diagnoses"
- compressive sensing -- "revamp digital imaging systems in cameras and medical scanners"
- nanohealing -- nanotechnology application for medicine
- quantum-dot solar power -- nanotechnology application for solar power
- neuron control -- might "help physicians fine-tune treatments for brain disorders such as depression and Parkinson's disease"
- single-cell analysis -- could "lead directly to predictive tests that could help doctors treat cancers more effectively"
- mobile augmented reality -- combines "location sensors and advanced visual algorithms with cell phones...to help us figure our where we are"
(From the National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship).
