Breakthrough 2025. These breakthroughs are more than just headlines — and we need to make the best. Last week, amy nordrum, our executive editor, joined our news editor charlotte jee to unveil our 10 breakthrough technologies of 2025 in an exclusive roundtable discussion.

We can’t see the future, but we expect these technologies to affect our world in a big way, for decades to come. This annual list reveals which technologies are having the most impact and where technology is headed next.