Quick heads up, the World Economic Forum released a Special Report covering what it considers to the the top 10 emerging technologies of 2020 that “have the greatest potential to positively transform society and industry. The technologies listed include:
- Microneedles for Painless Injections and Tests (tiny needles resulting in fewer trips to medical labs make care more accessible)
- Sun-Powered Chemistry (visible light that can drive processes that convert carbon dioxide into common materials)
- Virtual Patients (replacing humans with simulations could make clinical trials faster and safer)
- Spatial Computing (advancements beyond virtual and augmented reality)
- Digital Medicine (apps that diagnose and even treat)
- Electric Aviation (enabling air travel to decarbonize)
- Lower-Carbon Cement (construction material that combats climate change)
- Quantum Sensing (high-precision metrology based on the peculiarities of the subatomic realm)
- Green Hydrogen (zero-carbon energy to supplement wind and solar)
- Whole-Genome Synthesis (next-level cell engineering)
Check out the website here. Happy reading!