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“Where would you like to go?” Siri asked. It was a sunny, slightly dreamy morning in the heart of Silicon Valley, and I was sitting in the passenger seat of what seemed like a perfectly ordinary new car. There was something strangely Apple-like about it, though. There was no mistaking the apps arranged across the console screen, nor the deadpan voice of Apple’s virtual assistant, who, as backseat drivers go, was pretty helpful.

The iPhone could become a new tool in genetic studies.

We have the technology to dramatically increase the independence of people with spinal-cord injuries. The problem is bringing it to market and keeping it there.

The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: “We are interested in robots that create and are creative.” Lipson, an engineering professor at Cornell University (this July he’s moving his lab to Columbia University), is one of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence and robotics. His research projects provide a peek into the intriguing possibilities of machines and automation, from robots that “evolve” to ones that assemble themselves out of basic building blocks. (His Cornell colleagues are building robots that can serve as baristas and kitchen help.)

To rescue its struggling business, Hewlett-Packard is making a long-shot bid to change the fundamentals of how computers work.

Lab notebooks could determine who was first to invent a revolutionary gene-editing technology.

In a first-of-its-kind endeavor, electricity-starved Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are trying to get power from a lake - and avert catastrophe.

Scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of tomorrow’s children. Should they stop before it’s too late?

In this issue: "IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip" by Tom Simonite; "Claimed Breakthrough Slays Classic Computing Problem; Encryption Could Be Next" by Tom Simonite; "How Your Device Knows Your Life through Images" by Graham Templeton; "Twitter Boasts of What It Can Do with Your Data" by Tom Simonite; "Alphabet’s Stratospheric Loon Balloons to Start Serving Internet to Indonesia" by Tom Simonite.

In this issue: "India's Energy Crisis" by Richard Martin. "A Shocking Way to Fix the Brain" by Adam Piore. "Fighting ISIS Online" by David Talbot. "The Hit Charade" by Will Knight.

In this issue: "Teaching Machines to Understand Us" by Tom Simonite. "Paying for Solar Power" by David Rotman. "India Loves MOOCs" by George Anders. "Motion Pictures" by Martin Gayford.

In this issue: "Who Will Own the Robots?" by David Rotman. "Biotech's Coming Cancer Cure" by Antonio Regalado. "Cyber-Espionage Nightmare" by David Talbot. "Rebooting the Automobile" by Will Knight.

In this issue: "Engineering the Perfect Baby" by Antonio Regalado. "Lake Kivu’s Great Gas Gamble" by Jonathan W. Rosen. "Machine Dreams" by Tom Simonite. "Paralyzed Again" by Brian Bergstein.

In this issue, you’ll learn what the latest technological flops, fizzles, and flame outs tell us about innovation. You’ll hear how the past year ushered in progress in developing hardware and software capable of human feats of intelligence. You’ll learn how a wireless transmitter could give paralyzed people a practical way to control TVs, computers, or wheelchairs with their thoughts. You’ll hear how software that turns data into written text could help us make sense of a coming tsunami of data. You’ll learn what’s next for the inventor of Gorilla Glass. You’ll hear about how a wireless technology more than 10 times faster than the best Wi-Fi is coming to market this year.

In this issue, you’ll hear how the way the Land of the Rising Sun built and lost its dominance in photovoltaics shows just how vulnerable renewables remain to changing politics and national policies. You’ll learn how researchers are taking a new approach at unlocking Autism’s secrets. You’ll hear about a group of journalists and researchers that are venturing into the ugly corners of the Internet in an effort to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. And you’ll learn how severe droughts are forcing researchers to rethink how technology can increase the supply of fresh water.

In this issue, you’ll learn why the disparity between the rich and everyone else is larger than ever in the United States and increasing in much of Europe. You’ll hear whether an aging corporation’s adventures in fundamental physics can open an era of unimaginably powerful computers. You’ll learn how China will dominate the future of genetically modified food—despite the resistance of its population. And you’ll hear how letting go of an obsession with net neutrality could free technologists to make online services even better.

In this Special Issue, Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35. All 35 of these people are doing exciting work that could shape their fields for decades. But they’re solving problems in remarkably different ways. We consider some of them to be primarily Inventors; they’re immersed in building new technologies. Others we call Visionaries, because they’re showing how technologies could be put to new or better uses. Humanitarians are using technology to expand opportunities or inform public policy. Pioneers are doing fundamental work that will spawn future innovations; such breakthroughs will be taken up by tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs, people who are building new tech businesses. Everyone on the list was nominated either by the public or by MIT Technology Review’s editors. Some got our attention when they were picked by our international publishing partners as Innovators Under 35 for their regions. After our editors pared the roughly 500 nominees to 80 finalists, outside judges rated the originality and impact, or potential impact, of their work; those scores guided the editors as they crafted the list.

In this issue, you’ll learn about Technology Review’s 10 breakthrough Technologies of 2014.

In this issue, you’ll learn why we will need genetically modified foods. You’ll learn about an online file storage system designed to reshape industries. You’ll hear how microchips modeled on the brain may excel at tasks that baffle today’s computers. You’ll learn how pregnant women now have an easy and risk-free way to identify genetic flaws in their fetuses. And you’ll hear about Facebook’s commitment to connectivity.

In this issue, you’ll learn why we need a civic solution to privacy. You’ll hear what car makers are really working on – it’s not self-driving cars. You’ll learn why the community that built the largest encyclopedia in history is shrinking. And you’ll hear why today’s medicines can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.