The Download: testing six tech promises and biotech’s blind spots
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This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Are we there yet? A reality check on six big tech promises Some seemingly impossible feats are too good to give up on. Decoding a pet’s yowls and yips? Absolutely. Scrubbing the wor
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This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Are we there yet?
A reality check on six big tech promises Some seemingly impossible feats are too good to give up on. Decoding a pet’s yowls and yips?
Absolutely. Scrubbing the world of forever chemicals?
Yes, please. Rocketing to Mars in a fraction of the time?
Sounds great, but how close are we, really? In the new Impossible issue of MIT Technology Review , we ran progress reports on six potentially transformative technologies and ideas that have been “just around the corner” for years, or even decades.
From exercise in a pill to nuclear-powered spaceships, we asked experts what’s holding them back and how far they’ve come. Check out our stories on how they all stacked up .
Over the coming days, we’ll unpack each of the six technologies in The Download. So stay tuned!
In the biotech world, you can’t see everything —Jessica Hamzelou Earlier this week, I attended a screening of You Can See Everything , the buzzy new documentary about the disgraced former biotech CEO Elizabeth Holmes.
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