Technology
WEF’s top 10 emerging technologies of 2020 include microneedles for painless injections and tests, sun-powered chemistry that converts carbon dioxide into common materials, virtual patients replacing humans with simulations to make clinical trials faster and safer, spatial computing beyond virtual and augmented reality, digital medicine with apps that diagnose and treat what ails us, electric aviation that enables air travel to decarbonize, lower-carbon cement that combats climate change, quantum sensing through high-precision metrology based on the peculiarities of the subatomic realm, and green hydrogen as a zero-carbon energy to supplement wind and solar.
— Wayne Visser
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