The World Economic Forum's Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024 report lists this year's most impactful emerging technologies. The list includes ways artificial intelligence is accelerating scientific research with a focus on applications in health, communication, infrastructure and sustainability. AI-powered scientific discovery, carbon-capturing microbes, and elastocalorics are among the 10 ...
Advanced manufacturing and fashion technology can digitally transform the apparel industry by bridging the gap between creators, consumers, and local manufacturers. It can play an important role in producing custom goods locally, resulting in dramatically reduced turnaround times – days, not months.
The top 10 emerging technologies include self-fertilizing crops, on-demand drug manufacturing, breath-sensing diagnostics and 3D-printed houses. Check the full list of emerging tech.
The report highlights breakthroughs in AI, connectivity, and sustainability, such as deep learning, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and engineered organisms to combat climate change.
The World Economic Forum’s new Technology Convergence Report explores the potential impact of eight powerful new technology domains and their combination to create new value chains. The report’s 3C Framework offers a lens for organizations to identify the technology pairings that best align with their core capabilities. For more on this theme, follow the Annual Meeting of the New Champions ...
Explore the rigorous scientific methodology underpinning the World Economic Forum’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025 report, produced with Frontiers.
Technology convergence in AI, biotech and sustainability is driving innovation, accelerating bioeconomic growth and paving the way for the fifth industrial revolution.
From smartphones to social media and healthcare, here's a brief history of the ways in which technology has transformed our lives in the past 20 years.
The technology now approaches the kind of planetary monitoring once imagined in science fiction, combining quantum sensors and advanced data fusion techniques to track everything from greenhouse gases to geological activity.
