The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025 ⚡

Key Takeaways

• Structural battery composites, advanced nuclear technologies, and collaborative sensing stood among the top emerging technologies of 2025, based on data from the World Economic Forum's annual report.
• Additionally, engineered living therapeutics are an emerging technology that enable drugs to be produced within the body from the programming of microbes.
• Technologies were assessed on their societal impact, depth, and state of adoption.

The Most Promising Tech Across Industries

Now in its 13th edition, the World Economic Forum's report on the leading innovations that stand to shape tech, health care, and industry covers a wide scope of technologies still in their nascent phase.

GLP-1s for neurodegenerative diseases, for instance, have the possibility to meaningfully help patients with Alzheimers and Parkinson's as GLP-1s have aided in weight loss therapies.

Meanwhile, structural battery composites are able to store electricity in a car's frame or a plane's structure—in turn reducing their overall weight.