This is a list of emerging technologies, which are
in-development technical innovations that have significant potential in their applications. The criteria for this list is that the technology must:
# Exist in some way; purely
hypothetical technologies cannot be considered emerging and should be covered in the
list of hypothetical technologies instead. However, technologies being actively researched and prototyped are acceptable.
# Have a Wikipedia article or adjacent citation covering them.
# Not be widely used yet. Mainstream or extensively commercialized technologies can no longer be considered emerging.
Listing here is not a prediction that the technology will become widely adopted, only a recognition of significant ''potential'' to become widely adopted or highly useful if ongoing work continues, is successful, and the work is not overtaken by other technologies.
Agriculture
Construction
Economy
Electronics, IT, and communications
Entertainment
Optoelectronics
Energy
Materials and textiles
Medicine
Neuroscience
Military
Space
Transport
See also
General:
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Anthropogenics
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Differential technological development
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Diffusion of innovations
Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread. The theory was popularized by Everett Rogers in his book ''Diffusion of Innovations'', first published in 1962. Rogers argue ...
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Disruptive innovation
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Ecological modernization
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Environmental technology
Environmental technology (or envirotech) is the use of engineering and technological approaches to understand and address issues that affect the environment with the aim of fostering environmental improvement. It involves the application of scien ...
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Frugal innovation
Frugal innovation or frugal engineering is the process of reducing the complexity and cost of a good and its production. Usually this refers to removing nonessential features from a durable good, such as a car or telephone, in order to sell it in ...
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Green development
Green development is a real estate development concept that considers social and environmental impacts of development. It is defined by three sub-categories: environmental responsiveness, resource efficiency, and community and cultural sensitivity ...
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Industrial ecology
Industrial ecology (IE) is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems. The global industrial economy can be modelled as a network of industrial processes that extract resources from the Earth and transform those resource ...
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List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction
This list of existing technologies predicted in science fiction includes every medium, mainly literature and film. In 1964 Soviet engineer and writer Genrikh Altshuller made the first attempt to catalogue science fiction technologies of the time. ...
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List of hypothetical technologies
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List of inventions
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List of inventors
This is a of people who are described as being inventors or are credited with an invention.
Alphabetical list
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* Vitaly Abalakov (1906–1986), Russia – camming devices, Abalakov thread (or V-thread), gearless ice climbing anchor
* Ernst ...
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Sustainable development
Sustainable development is an approach to growth and Human development (economics), human development that aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.United Nations General ...
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Technology readiness level
Technology readiness levels (TRLs) are a method for estimating the maturity of technologies during the acquisition phase of a program. TRLs enable consistent and uniform discussions of technical maturity across different types of technology. TR ...
Ethics:
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Bioethics
Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, me ...
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Casuistry
Casuistry ( ) is a process of reasoning that seeks to resolve moral problems by extracting or extending abstract rules from a particular case, and reapplying those rules to new instances. This method occurs in applied ethics and jurisprudence. ...
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Computer ethics
Computer ethics is a part of practical philosophy concerned with how computing professionals should make decisions regarding professional and social conduct.
Margaret Anne Pierce, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computers at Geor ...
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Engineering ethics
Engineering ethics is the field concerned with the system of moral principles that apply to the practice of engineering. The field examines and sets the obligations by engineers to society, to their clients, and to the profession. As a scholarly ...
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Nanoethics
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Neuroethics
References
Apple’s first set of AI features on iOS 18 will run natively on iPhone: Reportindianexpress.com April 16, 2024 Archived from th
original source
Further reading
10 Breakthrough Technologies Archive (2001 onwards)''
MIT Technology Review
''MIT Technology Review'' is a bimonthly magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was founded in 1899 as ''The Technology Review'', and was re-launched without "''The''" in its name on April 23, 1998, under then pu ...
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Ten Breakthrough Technologies in 2020 ''MIT Technology Review''
Ten Breakthrough Technologies in 2021 ''MIT Technology Review''
Ten Breakthrough Technologies in 2022 ''MIT Technology Review''
Ten Breakthrough Technologies in 2023 ''MIT Technology Review''
Ten Breakthrough Technologies in 2024 ''MIT Technology Review''
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