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Technologies That Will Define 2008

by Terrence O'Brien on February 20, 2008 at 04:20 PM

10 Emerging Technologies in 2008Technology Review has collected a list of the 10 emerging technologies to watch in 2008, all of which could potentially change how we interact with technology and how it serves us. The list covers everything from consumer-oriented technologies such as offline access to web apps, which made its debut last year with Google Gears and will be built into Firefox 3, to transistors made out of Graphene (found in pencil lead) for making CPUs up to 1,000 times faster than current Intel and AMD efforts.

Also on the short list is Cellulolytic Enzymes, which makes freeing sugars from cellulose easier (allowing cellulosic ethanol to become cost-competitive with gasoline). Cellulosic biofuels are made from agricultural waste such as wood chips and switch grass and release almost 90-percent less greenhouse gas than traditional gasoline and 20 - 30 percent less than the more popular corn-based ethanol.

Check out the rest of the list at Technology Review and let us know in the comments what you think we should be watching out for in the coming year.

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