list<\/a> of this year\u2019s breakthrough technologies, published today, includes \u201csocially aware\u201d openAI, grid-scale energy storage, perovskite solar cells, and other technologies with the potential to \u201ctransform industries, improve lives, and safeguard the planet.\u201d The WEF\u2019s specific interest is to \u201cclose gaps in investment and regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cHorizon scanning for emerging technologies is crucial to staying abreast of developments that can radically transform our world, enabling timely expert analysis in preparation for these disruptors. The global community needs to come together and agree on common principles if our society is to reap the benefits and hedge the risks of these technologies,\u201d said Bernard Meyerson, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer of IBM and Chair of the WEF\u2019s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies.<\/p>\n
The list also provides an opportunity to debate human, societal, economic or environmental risks and concerns that the technologies may pose \u2014 prior to widespread adoption.<\/p>\n
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![<\/a>(credit: WEF)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\nThe World Economic Forum\u2019s annual list<\/a> of this year\u2019s breakthrough technologies, published today, includes \u201csocially aware\u201d openAI, grid-scale energy storage, perovskite solar cells, and other technologies with the potential to \u201ctransform industries, improve lives, and safeguard the planet.\u201d The WEF\u2019s specific interest is to \u201cclose gaps in investment and regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cHorizon scanning for emerging technologies is crucial to staying abreast of developments that can radically transform our world, enabling timely expert analysis in preparation for these disruptors. The global community needs to come together and agree on common principles if our society is to reap the benefits and hedge the risks of these technologies,\u201d said Bernard Meyerson, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer of IBM and Chair of the WEF\u2019s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies.<\/p>\nThe list also provides an opportunity to debate human, societal, economic or environmental risks and concerns that the technologies may pose \u2014 prior to widespread adoption.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(credit: WEF) The World Economic Forum\u2019s annual list of this year\u2019s breakthrough technologies, published today, includes \u201csocially aware\u201d openAI, grid-scale energy storage, perovskite solar cells, and other technologies with the potential to \u201ctransform industries, improve lives, and safeguard the planet.\u201d The WEF\u2019s specific interest is to \u201cclose gaps in investment and regulation.\u201d \u201cHorizon scanning for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56464,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27201\/revisions\/56464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2016.jpg\"){kind=link}