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First edition, Technology Review Jan/Feb 2001 issue (web page dates it 2001-02-01). Ten entries. No edition-level availability field; timings noted per entry come from body text, read through a summarising fetch, so quotes and timings are medium confidence. Person names in the key-player lists were dropped (organizations only).
HBMIs will allow human brains to control artificial devices designed to restore lost sensory and motor functions.
rank 1mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2001-001
A compromise: transistors made from materials that combine the charge-shuttling power and speed of inorganics with the affordability and flexibility of organics.
rank 2mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2001-002
Data mining didn't exist as a field until he helped pioneer it.
rank 3mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2001-003
DRM will allow content owners to get much wider and deeper distribution than ever before.
rank 4mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2001-004
Personal digital assistants (PDAs) and cell phones are becoming our portal to the world, our transaction devices, our ID and maybe one day our passport.
rank 5mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2001-005
HAL's modern-day counterparts are catching up fast.
rank 6mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2001-006
Photonic crystals are to photons what semiconductors are to electrons, offering an excellent medium for controlling the flow of light.
rank 7mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2001-007
Aspects allow programmers to write, view and edit a crosscutting concern as a separate entity.
rank 8mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2001-008
Mass-produced, disposable microfluidic chips that make possible everything from drug discovery on a massive scale to at-home tests for common infections.
rank 10mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2001-010