MIT Technology Review January 6, 2025
The 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025 are here. Editor Mat Honan reflects on what made the cut and his regrets from last year.
Welcome to our annual breakthroughs issue. If you’re an MIT Technology Review superfan, you may already know that putting together our 10 Breakthrough Technologies (TR10) list is one of my favorite things we do as a publication. We spend months researching and discussing which technologies will make the list. We try to highlight a mix of items that reflect innovations happening in various fields. We look at consumer technologies, large industrial-scale projects, biomedical advances, changes in computing, climate solutions, the latest in AI, and more.
We’ve been publishing this list every year since 2001 and, frankly,...