Always the Last to Know: TR 10

Every year, MIT's Technology Review identifies the 10 technologies that emerged in the past year that they think will have the largest impact in the future. This year's choices include: social indexing (aka the thing most likely to lead to the semantic web), a technology that would allow for fully secure cloud computing, a way of writing crash-proof computer code, solid-state batteries, and improvements in the electrical grid and a variety of medical technologies.

Check out the full list and feel, if you're like me, both awed and kind of not very smart :)