MIT Technology Review releases its 35 Innovators Under 35 list
MIT Review, the magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has unveiled its annual list of 35 Innovators below 35 years of age, covering inventors, pioneers, entrepreneurs, visionaries and humanitarians. Among those listed are Abdigani Diriye, who founded Somalia’s first incubator and start-up accelerator, Rachel Haurwitz, who is overseeing the commercialisation of gene-editing technology CRISPR, Lorenz Meier, who is developing an open-source autopilot for drones, and Fabian Menges, who is working on a method of measuring temperatures at the nanoscale.

MIT Technology Review, as a rule, focuses on the technology first—the breakthrough, the surprise, the accidental discovery with the potential to upend the way we live. Our annual look at 35 outstanding innovators under 35 is a reminder that behind all those innovations are people with dreams, fears, and ambitions. Sometimes they hack away at a problem for years before figuring out a way forward. Sometimes they stumble on a solution they didn’t know they were searching for. We hope these portraits offer a sense of the variety of work being done in technology, and a sense of what’s coming next.