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You’ll hear how pro-manufacturing advisors have the ear of the president. You’ll hear how robots could be replacing low-wage workers. You’ll learn how breakthroughs in hardware and software brought us usability advances, faster chips, and gesture control. You’ll hear two articles on China’s technological outlook for the year. You’ll learn about a new processor that could help usher in the next wave of mobile communication breakthroughs. And you’ll hear news from the worlds of Biomedicine, Technology and Communications.

You’ll hear how President Obama’s campaign used big data to rally individual voters. You’ll learn why climate change must take top priority in the next four years of President Obama’s Administration. You’ll hear how technology has given politics back its soul. You’ll learn about how a simple diagnostic test could help prevent the deaths of 1.5 million people each year from tuberculosis.

In this issue, you’ll learn how one man may have just started a race to discover alien life on the Red Planet. You’ll hear about a jamming technique that could take out an entire city’s mobile service. You’ll learn why Microsoft may be invading China’s smart-phone market. You’ll hear about Microsoft’s mobile era dilemma. You’ll hear three different articles about online education. And you’ll hear news from the worlds of Biomedicine, Technology and Communications.

In this issue, learn why we are having difficulties solving the big problems. You’ll learn about United States’ plan of sending astronauts to Mars in 2030. You’ll hear about the looming Alzheimer's health-care disaster. You’ll learn whether online colleges are just a fad or the change that higher education needs. And you’ll learn how solar-powered microgrids could help bring power to millions of the World’s poorest.

In this issue, you’ll hear how venture capital has failed to be the financial engine of American innovation. You’ll learn why a research agency’s shift in focus to alternative energy has put them in the political crosshairs. You’ll hear how a blood test could herald in a new wave of noninvasive prenatal screenings. You’ll learn how market leaders can quickly turn into market has-beens.

Welcome to Technology Review’s Special Edition for September 2012 on the 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35. Some members of our latest list of young innovators from around the world have developed consumer Web services you might have used, such as Spotify or Dropbox. Others are making more fundamental breakthroughs that have yet to be commercialized, such as more efficient engines or improvements in optical communications. And a few are blazing trails in fields that didn’t exist before, like pop-up fabrication of tiny machines, or cameras that can see around corners. But all 35 of them have something significant in common: their work is likely to be influential for a very long time. We hope that these stories about them surprise and inspire you.

In this issue, you’ll hear about the future of the computer industry. You’ll learn why Google’s Nexus 7 is going to make plenty of friends. You’ll hear why the advertising industry is battling some of technology’s biggest companies. You’ll learn whether Europe's strict stance on protecting people's data is costing businesses or creating new opportunities. You’ll hear how candidates are matching voter records with sophisticated online tracking to target their ads. And you’ll hear news from the worlds of Biomedicine, Technology and Communications.

In this issue, you’ll hear how the social media giants’ scientists are hunting for insights about human behavior. You’ll hear how Facebook could collapse – without a new earth-changing idea. You’ll hear how Germany is pursuing ambitious greenhouse-gas reductions while closing down its nuclear plants. You’ll learn how scientists are turning back to nature in order to revolutionize the way we produce fuels, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. And you’ll find out why the future of media on mobile devices isn't with apps but with the Web.

In this issue, you’ll hear about whether we could take a cut of the billions companies are making due to their knowledge of our online habits. You’ll learn about an app that can figure out who your cell-phone camera is pointed at. You’ll hear how fitness trends and health-care problems are creating a demand for tiny computers we won't even notice we're carrying. You’ll hear how an innovative motion-sensing technology is achieved by combining clever software with the Doppler Effect.

You’ll learn about the TR10, the 10 most important technological milestones reached in the last 12 months. You’ll hear about the tribulations involved in creating a public repository of every book ever published. You’ll learn how social communications played a big part on the war against Qaddafi. And you’ll find out why Apple’s iPhone app, Siri works so well.

You’ll learn how New York is investing in financial startups to make sure technologists and new ideas stick around. You’ll hear how mobile carriers are turning to sophisticated data analytics in order to give better service to high-paying customers. You’ll learn how some of the leading mobile carriers are joining forces in an effort to compete with Google in the mobile payment business. You’ll hear why a college dropout with no background in finance is meetings with some of the world's biggest banks.

You’ll learn how local programmers and homegrown business models are helping to realize the vast promise of using phones to improve health care and save lives. You’ll hear how an Internet pioneer’s quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery. You’ll learn how personalized cancer treatment may have finally arrived. You’ll hear how a startup is trying to reinvent computer networking in an effort to make Internet services smarter, faster, and cheaper.

In this issue, you’ll learn how antipiracy legislation could be fraught with downsides. You’ll hear how a nonprofit organization that holds millions of pieces of academic work will soon let the public see it for free. You’ll learn why defending against a cyber-attack is so hard that some think a stronger offense is required. You’ll hear how a memory-storage element made at IBM Research points to future computing systems built atom by atom.

In this issue, you’ll learn how manufacturing in the United States is in trouble – which spells bad news for the country's economy and future of innovation. You’ll hear how our saved online photos and mementos are at the mercy of companies that may decide to just throw it all away. You’ll learn how mapping our neural circuits under anesthesia could shed light on consciousness. You’ll hear how information technology is reducing the need for certain jobs faster than new ones are being created.

In this issue, you'll learn what heart cells generated from your blood can tell you about your risk for disease. You’ll hear how Egyptian and Tunisian youths hacked the Arab Spring. You’ll learn how artist David Hockney is trying to capture the experience of seeing. You’ll hear how a virtual medium of exchange could be a real alternative to government-issued money.

In this issue, you’ll hear how Google+ differs from Facebook. You’ll learn about Facebook’s new video-calling service. You'll hear how divorce lawyers are using social networks to gather evidence for legal cases. You'll learn how one company has found a way to collect data on what people are actually saying about specific TV shows.

In this issue, you’ll hear how a new book about Google offers some fascinating inside details. You'll learn how recent infighting has done little to explain how Anonymous operates – or what drives it. You’ll hear about the story behind Intel's new design. You'll learn how mobile phones are now starting to influence the operating systems of the traditional desktops they once imitated.

In this issue, you’ll learn how new devices that monitor activity, sleep, diet, and even mood, could make us healthier and more productive. You'll hear how crooks peddling fake antivirus software have duped the Web in a billion-dollar rip-off. You’ll learn about a stem-cell treatment that holds out hope to people who are paralyzed. You’ll hear how the former CTO of Microsoft is trying to transform the way we eat.

In this issue, you’ll learn what China’s next great economic advantage could be. You'll hear how Facebook emerged from a privacy scandal to become online advertising’s next great hope. You’ll learn how demonstrating IBM’s software on Jeopardy! may have been a bad idea. You’ll hear why it may be a good idea to start taking price into account when considering approval or coverage of new drug treatments.

In this issue, you’ll learn how lavish electronic-book projects point toward the pinnacle of the medium. You’ll hear how the masses who talk back through social media are starting to influence corporate, financial, and governmental behavior. You’ll hear how Nokia’s new CTO is trying to help the Finnish company regain its status as a leader of innovation. You’ll hear why the gradual spread of nuclear weapons may actually be better than no spread at all.