Prestige list: Here are the year’s 10 hottest new technologies – IDG.se

The world famous prestige Foundation, World Economic Forum lists each year what they call the “Top 10 new technologies”. Now that this year’s list is released are some of the hottest technologies in areas such as environmental technology or medical technology. It’s about the next generation of batteries to store excess energy, solutions to medical researchers should be able to use the chip in place of human organs in their work, the development of two-dimensional materials and solar cells made of perovskite materials.

However, almost half of techniques is it.

These blocks can be counted chains – best known to be the basis for crypto currency bitcoin, but have a wider field than that. The technology works much like a log book where all transactions are stored and can be traced.

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“Blockkedjetekniken is an open, global infrastructure upon which other technologies or other applications can be built, and that allows people to bypass traditional middlemen and thereby reduce or eliminate transaction costs,” the World Economic Forum in the report.

Self-propelled cars are so clear on the list – this is development faster than previously thought, according to the World Economic Forum. Google and other companies have notoriously tested self-driving cars for years now, with good results. Everything smarter and more advanced sensors, GPS devices, maps and systems for braking, steering and acceleration speeds up the development.

The use will increase gradually, through increasingly advanced safety and convenience devices.

Artificial intelligence is another technology on the list. More specifically, there is talk of opening AI ecosystems. By linking various techniques it is possible to build powerful digital assistants. An ecosystem of open artificial intelligence can connect mobile devices, computers, messaging, contacts, finances, calendars, work files, the thermostat in the bedroom, the car in the driveway and more and more. This creates opportunities for higher productivity and better health “to millions of people in the coming years,” the report concludes.

Another technique that is on the list is what the World Economic Forum Internet of nano-somethings. There is of course a further development of the internet of things, but with smaller sensors can be connected to the network.

IoT developments means that the thermostats, automobiles and locking devices connect to the network. New IoT gadgets launched next day – and analysts believe that up to 30 billion gadgets will be online in 2020.

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But researchers have begun to shrink the sensors so that they are small enough to, for example, implemented in the human body. This is the first step towards what the World Economic Forum Internet of nano things.

Here are all ten technicians on the list:

• Nano Sensors and Internet of nano things.
• The next generation of batteries.
• Block chains.
• two-dimensional material.
• Self-propelled cars.
• Organs-on-chip
• Solar cells made of perovskite materials
• Open AI ecosystem
• optogenetics (to control neurons with light).
• Technical systems of metabolism.

World Economic Forum is a non-profit foundation best known for the annual conference in Davos, Switzerland. It brings together some of the world’s most powerful decision makers in politics and business.