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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**Agriculture**
- Cultured meat
- Genetically modified food
- Agricultural robot
- Cellular agriculture
- Closed ecological systems
- Precision agriculture
- Vertical farming

**Architecture**
- 3D concrete printing
- Arcology
- Building printing
    - Contour crafting
- Domed city
- Smog tower

**Biomedical technology **
- Ampakine
- Artificial organs
    - Artificial uterus
    - Organ printing
- Biofabrication
- Bioprinting
    - Microgravity bioprinting
- Brain transplant
- De-extinction
- Genetic engineering
    - Gene therapy
- Head transplant
- Isolated brain
- Life extension
    - Strategies for engineered negligible senescence
- Nanomedicine
- Nanosensors
- Organ culture
- Personalized medicine
- Regenerative medicine
    - Stem-cell therapy
    - Tissue engineering
- Robot-assisted surgery
- Synthetic biology
    - Synthetic genomics
- Virotherapy
    - Oncolytic virus
- Tricorder
- Whole genome sequencing

**Displays**, Next generation of display technology
- FED
- FLCD
- iMoD
- Laser
- LPD
- MicroLED
- OLED
- OLET
- QD-LED
- SED
- TDEL
- TMOS
- TPD

**Screenless video**
- Bionic contact lens
- Head-mounted display
- Head-up display
- Optical head-mounted display
- Virtual retinal display

- Autostereoscopy
- Flexible display
- Holographic display
    - Computer-generated
- 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**
- Alternative fuel vehicle
- Battery electric vehicle
- Hybrid electric vehicle
- Smart grid
- Wireless power

**Information and communications technology**
- Ambient intelligence
    - Internet of things
- Artificial intelligence
    - Applications of artificial intelligence
    - Machine translation
    - Machine vision
    - Mobile translation
    - Progress in artificial intelligence
    - Semantic Web
    - Speech recognition
- Atomtronics
- Carbon nanotube field-effect transistor
- Cybermethodology
- Extended reality
- Fourth-generation optical discs
    - 3D optical data storage
    - Holographic data storage
- GPGPU
- Memory
    - CBRAM
    - ECRAM
    - FRAM
    - Millipede
    - MRAM
    - NRAM
    - PRAM
    - Racetrack memory
    - RRAM
    - SONOS
    - UltraRAM
- Optical computing
- RFID
    - Chipless 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
    - Metamaterial cloaking
- Metal foam
- Multi-function structures
- Nanotechnology
    - Carbon nanotubes
    - Molecular nanotechnology
    - Nanomaterials
- Picotechnology
- Programmable matter
- Quantum dots
- Silicene
- Synthetic diamond

**Military technology**
- Antimatter weapon
- Caseless ammunition
- Coilgun
- Directed-energy weapon
    - Laser
    - Maser
    - Particle-beam weapon
    - Sonic weapon
- Plasma weapon
- Pure fusion weapon
- Railgun
- Stealth technology
- Vortex ring gun

**Neuroscience**
- Artificial brain
- Brain–computer interface
- Electroencephalography
- Mind uploading
    - Brain-reading
    - Neuroinformatics
- Neuroprosthetics
    - Brain implant
    - Exocortex
    - Retinal implant
    - Visual prosthesis
- Neurotechnology

**Quantum technology**
- algorithms
- amplifier
- bus
- cellular automata
- channel
- circuit
- complexity theory
- computing
- cryptography
    - post-quantum
- 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**
- Fusion rocket
- Non-rocket spacelaunch
    - Mass driver
    - Orbital ring
    - Skyhook
    - Space elevator
    - Space fountain
    - Space tether
- Reusable launch vehicle

**Spacecraft propulsion**
- Beam-powered propulsion
- Ion thruster
- Laser propulsion
- Nuclear pulse propulsion
- Plasma propulsion engine
    - Helicon thruster
    - VASIMR
- Solar sail

**Other space technologies**
- Interstellar travel
- Laser communication in space
- Orbital propellant depot

**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
    - Hydrogen vehicle
- Ground-effect train
- Hyperloop / Vactrain
- Maglev train
- Personal rapid transit
- Platoon
- Self-driving car
- Transit Elevated Bus
- Vehicular communication systems

**Pipeline**
- Pneumatic transport
    - Automated vacuum collection

**Other technologies**
- Acoustic levitation
- Anti-gravity
- Cloak of invisibility
- Digital scent technology
- Force field
    - Plasma window
- Immersive virtual reality
- Magnetic refrigeration
- Phased-array optics
- Thermoacoustic heat engine

**Topics**
- Automation
- Collingridge dilemma
- Differential technological development
- Disruptive innovation
- Ephemeralization
- Ethics
    - Bioethics
    - Cyberethics
    - Neuroethics
    - Robot ethics
- Exploratory engineering
- Proactionary principle
- Technological change
    - Technological unemployment
- Technological convergence
- Technological evolution
- Technological paradigm
- Technology forecasting
    - Accelerating change
    - Future-oriented technology analysis
    - Horizon scanning
    - Moore's law
    - Technological singularity
    - Technology scouting
- Technology in science fiction
- Technology readiness level
- Technology roadmap
- Transhumanism