Our guest today Amy Nordrum is the executive editor of operations at MIT Technology Review. Her career mission is to build profitable newsrooms that empower journalists to do their best work. She’s the project leader of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2024, compiling a list of the most important technologies that change our lives.

Every year, her team looks for promising technologies poised to have a real impact on the world, spending months coming up with ideas for this annual list and vigorously debating each item.