The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024 💡
What We’re Showing
This graphic shows the top 10 emerging technologies for 2024, based on data from the World Economic Forum.
Methodology
Technologies were selected from a survey based on 300 nominations across 29 countries, according to the below criteria:
- Power: The technology could critically transform industries and established behaviors
- Applicability: The technology has the potential for widespread use and benefit to economies
- Novelty: It is in the early stages of development, but yet to be widely used
- Depth: More than one country is developing and investing in the technology
New Frontiers in AI
Two of the top 10 emerging technologies were based on AI-driven advancements in scientific discovery and enhancing the protection of large datasets.
Although scientific research has been integrating AI for some time, the current rate of innovation could accelerate the diagnoses and the treatment of diseases in addition to furthering scientific discoveries using deep learning.
Breakthroughs in Green Tech
From organisms designed to capture CO₂ to elastocalorics—which increase the energy efficiency of heating and cooling systems—four of the top 10 technologies were focused on sustainable solutions as a warming planet and extreme weather events increasingly disrupt global society.
Dataset
| Top 10 Emerging Technologies in 2024 | Description |
|---|---|
| AI for scientific discovery | Advancing diagnosis and prevention of diseases |
| Privacy-enhancing technologies | Powers the secure use of large datasets |
| Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces | Increases efficiency of next-generation wireless communication |
| High altitude platform stations | Balloon structures providing enhanced connectivity and communication |
| Integrated sensing and communication | Monitoring systems for smart grids, agriculture, and weather conditions |
| Immersive technology for the built world | Immersive design tools for urban development projects |
| Elastocalorics | Innovative technologies for cooling and heating systems |
| Carbon-capturing microbes | Organisms designed to capture COâ‚‚ |
| Alternative livestock feeds | Sustainable feeds made from insects, algae, and single-cell proteins |
| Genomics for transplants | Editing the genome for transplantations |
