Special Reports 10 Emerging Technologies 2008

Technology Review präsentiert eine Liste von 10 neu entstehenden Technologien, wo die Redaktion denkt, dass sie unser Leben verändern können.

Da gibt es z.B. „Modeling Surprise“:

Combining massive quantities of data, insights into human psychology, and machine learning can help humans manage surprising events, says Eric Horvitz. Much of modern life depends on forecasts: where the next hurricane will make landfall, how the stock market will react to falling home prices, who will win the next primary. While existing computer models predict many things fairly accurately, surprises still crop up, and we probably can’t eliminate them.