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MIT Technology Review has published its annual top ten emerging technologies list for 2008. See below for a summary of the list and links to more information about each emerging technology at the Technology Review website.

Technology Review: 10 Emerging Technologies 2008:

Modeling Surprise

Combining massive quantities of data, insights into human psychology, and machine learning can help manage surprising events, says Eric Horvitz.

Probabilistic Chips Krishna Palem thinks a little uncertainty in chips could extend battery life in mobile devices–and maybe the duration of Moore’s Law, too.

NanoRadio Alex Zettl’s tiny radios, built from nanotubes, could improve everything from cell phones to medical diagnostics.

Wireless Power Physicist Marin Soljacic is working toward a world of wireless electricity.

Atomic Magnetometers John Kitching’s tiny magnetic-field sensors will take MRI where it’s never gone before.

Offline Web Applications Adobe’s Kevin Lynch believes that computing applications will become more powerful when they take advantage of the browser and the desktop.

Graphene Transistors A new form of carbon being pioneered by Walter de Heer of Georgia Tech could lead to speedy, compact computer processors.

Connectomics Jeff Lichtman hopes to elucidate brain development and disease with new technologies that illuminate the web of neural circuits.

Reality Mining Sandy Pentland is using data gathered by cell phones to learn about human behavior.

Cellulolytic Enzymes Frances Arnold is designing better enzymes for making biofuels from cellulose.

(Via MIT Technology Review.)