The report highlights breakthroughs in AI, connectivity, and sustainability, such as deep learning, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and engineered organisms to combat climate change.
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Top 10 Emerging Technologies
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The annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report highlights the technologies set to positively impact society within the next three to five years. The report provides a qualitative assessment of each technology's potential impact on people and the planet.
Authored by the World Economic Forum with Frontiers and over 90 experts, this report highlights groundbreaking technologies like AI-enabled healthcare, flexible batteries, and generative AI.
The 10th-anniversary report highlights technologies like breath sensors for disease diagnosis and wireless charging, all poised to impact the world in the next three to five years.
The Emerging Technologies 2020 report highlights technologies like virtual clinical trials, electrified air travel, and spatial computing, all poised to drive societal progress.
The report highlights top emerging technologies like virtual teleportation, humanoid robots, biodegradable plastics, and DNA-based data storage.
The report showcases transformative technologies like batteries for villages and microchips for medical research, aiming to raise awareness and close gaps in investment, regulation, and understanding.
The report highlights innovations like hydrogen-powered cars and brain-inspired computer chips. Compiled by the World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council, it aims to raise awareness and address gaps in investment, regulation, and understanding.