Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2016 | World Economic Forum

Breakthrough technologies, including “socially aware” artificial intelligence, new generation solar panels and computer chips that mimic human organs, could soon change our world for the better, according to the World Economic Forum’s list of the top 10 emerging technologies of 2016. Read expert views from the scientists helping to turn these ideas into reality.

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Emerging Technologies

These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2016

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Here's what will happen when 30 billion devices are connected to the internet

Emerging Technologies

These next-generation batteries could end energy poverty

Emerging Technologies

You might not have heard of them, but these new materials will change the world

Tim Harper 23 Jun 2016

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Face it: you're a worse driver than an autonomous car

Bernard Meyerson 23 Jun 2016

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Your robot personal assistant will know when you’re stressed, tired or hungry

Corinna Lathan and Stuart Russell 23 Jun 2016

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Solar power has big limitations, but Perovskites could change that

Jeffrey Carbeck 23 Jun 2016

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Instead of digging up raw materials, we will make them from microbes

Sang Yup Lee 23 Jun 2016

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A brain breakthrough that offers new hope for Parkinson's and depression

Nayef Al-Rodhan 23 Jun 2016

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Blockchain: what it is, how it really can change the world

Mihaela Ulieru 23 Jun 2016

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The computer chip that thinks it's a tiny human liver

Nayef Al-Rodhan 23 Jun 2016