The World Economic Forum published back in June 2016 a list of top ten emerging technologies for 2016. The list highlights
technological advances that the members of the Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging
Technologies believe have the power to improve lives, transform industries and
safeguard our planet.
The top ten technologies are:
- Nanosensors and the Internet of Nanothings – for example nanosensors capable of circulating in the human body or being embedded in construction materials
- Next generation batteries, including recent advances in energy storage using sodium, aluminium and zinc based batteries
- The blockchain, which has potential to fundamentally change the way markets and governments work
- 2D materials such as graphene
- Autonomous vehicles
- Organs-on-chips – miniature models of human organs could revolutionize medical research and drug discovery
- Perovskite solar cells, which is a new photovoltaic material offering improvements over classic silicon solar cell
- Open AI ecosystem – shared advances in NLP and social awareness combined with unprecedented availability of data
- Optogenetics – the use of light and color to record the activity of neurons in the brain
- Systems metabolic engineering – a discipline that tweaks the biochemistry of microbes so that more of their energy and resources go into synthesizing useful chemical products
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