Technology Review has recently released its latest list, “The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008.” As always, the list contains lots of interesting new ideas and technologies that promise tremendous future advances that could affect all of our lives. For example, wireless power, which transmits electricity via magnetic resonance, could mean the end of scrambling around the airport looking to plug in your laptop. Meanwhile, connectomics is a new means to mapping the brain that promises a better understanding of diseases such as autism and schizophrenia. Finally, cellulolytic enzymes will help make it easier and cheaper to create biofuels from cheap biomass such as prairie grass, wood chips, and agricultural waste.

“The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008” appears in the March/April 2008 issue of Technology Review.