SEVEN NEW TECHNOLOGIES THAT CHANGE EVERYTING

摘要

What makes a technology insanely great? Miraculous inventions come along all the time, yet precious few are destined for greatness. Personal helicopters? Laser discs? Microsoft's Bob? They all were touted as tomorrow's technologies, they all seemed dashingly clever, and they all amounted to nothing. In hindsight, this is obvious. But in the present tense, it's notoriously difficult to identify the great technologies of the future that are actually here today. "Breakthroughs are disruptive for a reason," says Alex Pang, research director at the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, Calif. "They sneak up on us even when we try to prepare for them."