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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.
Emerging technology Status Potential applications Related articles Agricultural robotics [1] [2] Research and development, trial projects Automation of agriculture: Agricultural drone: Closed ecological systems: Research and development, [3] [4] [5] working demonstrators (e.g. Biosphere 2) Agriculture, scientific research, space colonization
Technological change (TC) or technological development is the overall process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes. [1] [2] In essence, technological change covers the invention of technologies (including processes) and their commercialization or release as open source via research and development (producing emerging technologies), the continual improvement of ...
A technological revolution is a period in which one or more technologies is replaced by another new technology in a short amount of time. It is a time of accelerated technological progress characterized by innovations whose rapid application and diffusion typically cause an abrupt change in society.
Technological convergence is the tendency for technologies that were originally unrelated to become more closely integrated and even unified as they develop and advance. For example, watches, telephones, television, computers, and social media platforms began as separate and mostly unrelated technologies, but have converged in many ways into an interrelated telecommunication, media, and ...
Schwab expects this era to be marked by breakthroughs in emerging technologies in fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, biotechnology, the internet of things, the industrial internet of things, decentralised consensus, fifth-generation wireless technologies, 3D printing, and fully autonomous vehicles.
[1] [2] It is a plan that applies to a new product or process and may include using technology forecasting or technology scouting to identify suitable emerging technologies. [3] It is a known technique to help manage the fuzzy front-end of innovation. [ 4 ]
Future technology-related topics include: Emerging technologies , technologies that are perceived as capable of changing the status quo Futures studies (also called futurology), the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them