This is a list of
emerging technologies, in-development technical innovations with 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.
Agriculture
Construction
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
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Disruptive innovation
In business theory, disruptive innovation is innovation that creates a new market and value network or enters at the bottom of an existing market and eventually displaces established market-leading firms, products, and alliances. The concept w ...
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Ecological modernization
Ecological modernization is a school of thought that argues that both the state and the market can work together to protect the environment.Mol, A.P.J, G Spaargaren, and D.A Sonnenfeld. “Ecological Modernization Theory: Taking Stock, Moving For ...
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Environmental technology
Environmental technology (envirotech) or green technology (greentech), also known as '' clean technology'' (''cleantech''), is the application of one or more of environmental science, green chemistry, environmental monitoring and electronic d ...
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Frugal innovation
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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
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List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction
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List of hypothetical technologies
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List of inventions
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List of inventors
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Sustainable development
Sustainable development is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals while also sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. The ...
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Technology readiness level
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
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Computer ethics
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Engineering ethics
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Nanoethics
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Neuroethics
References
Further reading
Ten Breakthrough Technologies in 2015 ''
MIT Technology Review''
Ten Breakthrough Technologies in 2016 ''MIT Technology Review''
Ten Breakthrough Technologies in 2017 ''MIT Technology Review''
Ten Breakthrough Technologies in 2018 ''MIT Technology Review''
Ten Breakthrough Technologies in 2019 ''MIT Technology Review''
Ten Breakthrough Technologies in 2020 ''MIT Technology Review''
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Technology development
Technology in society