Every year, the reporters and editors at MIT Technology Review go through the painstaking process of compiling our list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. These represent the technological advances that we think will have the biggest impact on the world in the years to come. They span everything from medicine to energy to digital technologies, but they’re unified by one thing: we think they will affect our lives in meaningful ways.
Previous picks have included mRNA vaccines, GPT-3, and TikTok’s recommendation algorithms. Come and see what we chose for 2022—there will be some familiar names, and some surprises.
This is the 21st year we’ve published this list, and we will be showcasing a different technology from the TR10 in The Download every day for the next 10 days. A deep dive into the first technology on the list will appear in tomorrow’s newsletter. We hope you enjoy this glimpse into the future.
In the meantime, we’ve got a fun bonus exercise we’d like you to get involved with: picking an 11th technology. Go ahead and vote in our poll now! You can choose from the metaverse, NFTs, aging clocks, and AI-powered robots.