Dr Pavan Soni

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024

Every year, MIT Tech Review publishes its list of the world’s most anticipated technological breakthroughs, which may have taken years to come. This year’s list comprises:

1) AI for everything,

2) super-efficient solar cells with tiny crystals embedded in them;

3) Apple Vision Pro, the mixed-reality headset with best in class display;

4) Weight-loss drugs, especially with the WHO declaring obesity as an epidemic;

5) Enhanced geo-thermal systems based on deep drilling techniques;

6) Chiplets that can connect chips together to enhance their performance;

7) Vertex becomes the world’s first company to get regulatory approvals for gene editing using CRISPR for treating sickle-cell disease;

8) Exascale computers that can perform exaflop’s worth of calculations (1 followed by 8 zeros);

9) Heat pumps that can lower carbon footprint better than gas furnaces;

10) Twitter killers, in the form of Bluesky, Threads, gaining ground. (Source: MIT Tech Review)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/01/08/1085094/10-breakthrough-technologies-2024/

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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024

Every year, we look for promising technologies poised to have a real impact on the world. Here are the advances that we think matter most right now.