The world economic forum released the top 10 emerging technologies in 2016 at the annual summer Davos meeting in Tianjin on the morning of 27. The list was compiled by the forum's emerging technology cross boundary Council and published in collaboration with Scientific American. The Council's criteria for selecting the list are: whether 2016 is an important turning point for the development of a certain technology. As a result, we can see some technologies that have been well-known for many years, but are only now reaching a mature level and having an important impact.
The selected technologies focus on areas that can improve people's lives, promote industry change and maintain the earth's ecology. Before technologies are widely used, the forum also provides a platform for debate on the risks and concerns that technology may bring to human, social, economic and environmental aspects.
Sang yup Lee, distinguished professor of Korea's Institute of Frontier Science and technology, said at the press conference that compared with previous years, the emerging technologies selected this year are more prominent in biological science, and they also take into account not only the benefits of different technologies for human beings, but also their impact on the environment.
Another criterion to consider is the feasibility of the technology from the laboratory to the market. "We hope that these transformative technologies will become a reality more quickly, which is one of the concepts of the fourth industrial revolution: to cross the barriers between academic and commercial applications, and to make these technologies available to industry or ordinary people quickly." Sang yup Lee said.
Andrew, CEO and co-founder of 1qbit, a technology pioneer member of the world economic forum In an exclusive interview with interface news reporters, fursman said that among the ten emerging technologies announced, he was most optimistic about the commercial application of "open artificial intelligence ecosystem": "because of the user-friendly nature of artificial intelligence, people are more natural and convenient in the use process, just like people to people communication, without professional knowledge and skills learning."
He also pointed out that although emerging technologies are becoming more and more diversified, for China's increasingly open science and technology circles and investment circles, technology exchanges and development will be more smooth. "In the past, only foreign capital entered China's science and technology industry, but now there are more and more reverse operations. Chinese capital is very active, and technology integration between different countries and regions is easier.".
Diversified breakthrough technologies will soon be able to address the world's most pressing challenges. These cutting-edge technologies include batteries that can power an entire village, social conscious artificial intelligence, and a new generation of solar panels. Here are the top 10 technologies:
1. Nano sensor and nano Internet of things
Nano sensors can enter the circulatory system of the human body or be implanted into building materials. In 2020, the Internet of things is expected to have 30 billion connected devices. Once connected, the nanoscale Internet of things will have a huge impact on the future of medicine, architecture, agriculture and drug manufacturing.
2. Next generation battery
Matching supply and demand is one of the biggest obstacles to the use of renewable energy. However, recent advances in the use of sodium, aluminum and zinc batteries for energy storage make it possible to build a small power grid and provide clean and reliable energy for the entire village.
3. Blockchain Technology
Previously, the distributed electronic transaction ledger, which records bitcoin, has made blockchain technology widely used. In 2015 alone, the amount of venture capital enterprises invested in the blockchain industry exceeded one billion US dollars, and its economic and social impact on fundamentally changing the way the market and the government work has gradually emerged.
4. Two dimensional materials
Although not the only one, graphene is perhaps the most famous single atomic layer material. The significant reduction in production costs is due to the wide application of 2D materials, including air purifiers, water purifiers, a new generation of wearable devices and batteries.
5. Driverless car
Although the driverless vehicle has not been fully legalized in most countries in the world, its potential advantages in saving lives, energy saving and emission reduction, promoting economic development, improving the quality of life of the elderly and other aspects make the relevant important technology pioneers have begun to develop rapidly.
6. Organ chip
Only a memory card size miniature model of human organs can enable researchers to witness the biological mechanism and behavior in an unprecedented way, bringing about a radical change in medical research and drug manufacturing.
7. Perovskite solar cells
The new photovoltaic material makes three improvements to the current silicon solar cells, making them easier to produce, able to be used almost anywhere, and improving power generation efficiency so far.
8. Open AI ecosystem
With the improvement of natural language processing and social cognitive algorithms, together with the unprecedented wealth of data, intelligent digital assistants will soon be able to serve all aspects of a person's life, such as managing his financial and health status, and even helping him select clothes to wear.
9. Photogenetics
It's no stranger to use light and color to record the activity of neurons in the brain, but recent studies have found that light can also go deep into the brain for better treatment of brain diseases.
10. Metabolic function of the system
The development of synthetic biology, systems biology and evolutionary engineering means that the production of better quality block chemicals from cheaper plant fuels will become more and more common, which can replace the large consumption of fossil fuels.
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