I’ve summarized a list of emerging tech trends that Andrew Maynard summarized from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies assessment:
- Informatics for adding value to information [Big Data]
- Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
- Green Revolution 2.0 – technologies for increased food and biomass
- Nanoscale design of materials
- Systems biology and computational modeling/simulation of chemical and biological systems
- Utilization of carbon dioxide as a resource
- Wireless power
- High energy density power systems
- Personalized medicine, nutrition and disease prevention
- Enhanced education technology
Best outcome would be a nanoscale, wireless, high-density power generation system, based on a synthetic biological system that converts CO2 to a natural fertilizer.