Emerging technologies
Emerging technologies are technologies whose development, practical applications, or both are still largely unrealized. These technologies are generally new but also include old technologies finding new applications. Emerging technologies are often perceived as capable of changing the status quo.
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[change | change source]Agriculture
- Cultured meat
- Genetically modified food
- Agricultural robot
- Cellular agriculture
- Closed ecological systems
- Precision agriculture
- Vertical farming
Architecture
Biomedical technology
- Ampakine
- Artificial organs
- Biofabrication
- Bioprinting
- Brain transplant
- De-extinction
- Genetic engineering
- Head transplant
- Isolated brain
- Life extension
- Nanomedicine
- Nanosensors
- Organ culture
- Personalized medicine
- Regenerative medicine
- Robot-assisted surgery
- Synthetic biology
- Virotherapy
- Tricorder
- Whole genome sequencing
Displays, Next generation of display technology
- Bionic contact lens
- Head-mounted display
- Head-up display
- Optical head-mounted display
- Virtual retinal display
- Autostereoscopy
- Flexible display
- Holographic display
- Multi-primary color display
- Ultra HD
- Volumetric display
Electronics
- E-textiles
- Electronic nose
- Flexible electronics
- Memristor
- Molecular electronics
- Nanoelectromechanical systems
- Spintronics
- Thermal copper pillar bump
- Twistronics
Energy production
- Airborne wind turbine
- Artificial photosynthesis
- Biofuels
- Carbon-neutral fuel
- Concentrated solar power
- Fusion power
- Home fuel cell
- Hydrogen economy
- Methanol economy
- Molten salt reactor
- Nantenna
- Photovoltaic pavement
- Space-based solar power
- Vortex engine
Energy storage
- Compressed-air energy storage
- Flywheel energy storage
- Grid energy storage
- Lithium–air battery
- Lithium iron phosphate battery
- Molten-salt battery
- Nanowire battery
- Research in lithium-ion batteries
- Silicon–air battery
- Thermal energy storage
- Ultracapacitor
Other energy topics
Information and communications technology
- Ambient intelligence
- Artificial intelligence
- Atomtronics
- Carbon nanotube field-effect transistor
- Cybermethodology
- Extended reality
- Fourth-generation optical discs
- GPGPU
- Memory
- Optical computing
- RFID
- Software-defined radio
- Three-dimensional integrated circuit
Manufacturing
- 3D microfabrication
- 3D printing
- 3D publishing
- Claytronics
- Molecular assembler
- Smart manufacturing
- Utility fog
Materials science
- Aerogel
- Amorphous metal
- Artificial muscle
- Conductive polymer
- Femtotechnology
- Fullerene
- Graphene
- High-temperature superconductivity
- High-temperature superfluidity
- Linear acetylenic carbon
- Metamaterials
- Metal foam
- Multi-function structures
- Nanotechnology
- Picotechnology
- Programmable matter
- Quantum dots
- Silicene
- Synthetic diamond
Military technology
- Antimatter weapon
- Caseless ammunition
- Coilgun
- Directed-energy weapon
- Plasma weapon
- Pure fusion weapon
- Railgun
- Stealth technology
- Vortex ring gun
- Artificial brain
- Brain–computer interface
- Electroencephalography
- Mind uploading
- Neuroprosthetics
- Neurotechnology
Quantum technology
- algorithms
- amplifier
- bus
- cellular automata
- channel
- circuit
- complexity theory
- computing
- cryptography
- dynamics
- electronics
- error correction
- finite automata
- image processing
- imaging
- information
- key distribution
- logic
- logic clock
- logic gate
- machine
- machine learning
- metamaterial
- network
- neural network
- optics
- programming
- sensing
- simulator
- teleportation
Robotics
- Domotics
- Nanorobotics
- Powered exoskeleton
- Self-reconfiguring modular robot
- Swarm robotics
- Uncrewed vehicle
Space launch technologies
Spacecraft propulsion
- Beam-powered propulsion
- Ion thruster
- Laser propulsion
- Nuclear pulse propulsion
- Plasma propulsion engine
- Solar sail
Other space technologies
Aviation
- Adaptive compliant wing
- Backpack helicopter
- Delivery drone
- Flying car
- High-altitude platform
- Jet pack
- Pulse detonation engine
- Scramjet
- Spaceplane
- Supersonic transport
Land transport
- Airless tire
- Alternative fuel vehicle
- Ground-effect train
- Hyperloop / Vactrain
- Maglev train
- Personal rapid transit
- Platoon
- Self-driving car
- Transit Elevated Bus
- Vehicular communication systems
Other technologies
- Acoustic levitation
- Anti-gravity
- Cloak of invisibility
- Digital scent technology
- Force field
- Immersive virtual reality
- Magnetic refrigeration
- Phased-array optics
- Thermoacoustic heat engine
Topics
- Automation
- Collingridge dilemma
- Differential technological development
- Disruptive innovation
- Ephemeralization
- Ethics
- Exploratory engineering
- Proactionary principle
- Technological change
- Technological convergence
- Technological evolution
- Technological paradigm
- Technology forecasting
- Technology in science fiction
- Technology readiness level
- Technology roadmap
- Transhumanism
