This section is a collection of Technology Review's coverage of the most important technologies of our time. It exemplifies our mission to describe emerging technologies and analyze their social, commercial, economic, and political impact.
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ALL SPECIAL REPORTS
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Infotech
- Web 3.0
- New technologies are changing the infrastructure of the Web, turning fragmented data sources into searchable wholes. Computers will gain the intelligence to understand, organize, and draw conclusions from online data.
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Infotech
- Next-Generation Search
- Scouring the Web for information in all its various forms, on everything from videos to images, is becoming faster and easier. Could this new rise in search tools and navigational technologies be a threat to Google's dominance?
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Infotech
- Your Next Cell Phone
- It seems that every day, there are new announcements purporting to redefine how we will use our cell phones: from the latest GPS-enabled gadget for social computing, to software to make your PC a phone. But what is the real future of telephony?
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Infotech
- Beyond Moore's Law
- From the use of nanoscale materials for flash memory to making new designs for transistors, the amazing advances in computer technology have largely been made possible by Moore's Law. But it can't go on forever--or can it?
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Infotech
- Data Security and Privacy
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Invasive technologies continue to emerge as companies' scour for consumer information. Who is tracking your Internet use? Do you have total control over your Web-based e-mail account? What is a rootkit, and what do you need to know about it?
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Nanotech
- Metamaterials
- An exciting new class of materials is beginning to allow researchers to manipulate light in unprecedented ways. The implications could be enormous for everything from telecommunications to how much data can be packed into a DVD.
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Nanotech
- Solar Power
- Employing nanotechnologies to precisely structure the materials used in solar cells, researchers are creating novel types of photovoltaic devices that could finally make solar power a broadly practical source of renewable energy.
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Energy
- Better Batteries
- The lack of efficient and dependable batteries continues to limit the development of everything from portable electronics to hybrid vehicles. But new batteries made using nanotechnology are offering smaller, more efficient, and safer alternatives.
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Energy
- Tomorrow's Car
- Worries over the future of gasoline supplies and the effects of carbon dioxide emissions on global warming are driving innovators to rethink how we get around. On the horizon: better batteries, cleaner fuels, and redesigned engines.
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Energy
- Biofuels
- Everyone from leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists to President Bush is touting fuels created from biomass as a replacement for petroleum. But new technologies are needed to make this vision economically and environmentally feasible.
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Biotech
- Neuroengineering
- Armed with advanced imaging techniques and a growing knowledge of how the brain works, neuroscientists are increasingly intervening to try to fix everything from severe depression to Parkinson’s disease. The age of engineering the brain has begun.
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Biotech
- Personal Genomics
- Researchers have begun to sequence the genomes of individuals for the first time thanks to advances in DNA sequencing. The fact that people have their own personal genome will soon change what we know about ourselves and the practice of medicine.
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Biztech
- Briefcases
- The commercialization of emerging technologies is no easy feat. These are lessons in how companies large and small meet the challenge of getting new technologies to market. Sometimes they are success stories--and sometimes they're not.
 - TR35
- Technology Review honors 35 young innovators under the age of 35 whose technological discoveries and scientific research are changing the world we live in.
 - 10 Emerging Technologies
- This year, as every year, we present our list of the 10 technologies we find most exciting—and most likely to alter industries, fields of research, and even the way we live. The list comprises projects in a broad range of fields.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology