The following are the hottest emerging technologies in my opinion with significant commercial potential:
- Sixth Sense Technology – a technology that acts as an aid or “sixth sense” to provide real-time data based on the real world. Pranav Mistry’s definition is the following: “‘SixthSense’ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.”
- Claytronics – a technology that uses computer data to build real physical objects
- Radical Life Extension – See Aubrey de Grey
- Stem cell applications
- Alternative energy innovations
- Mobile commerce and virtual currencies
- Exponential increase computer-assisted decision making
- Quantum computing
- New Space technology: emDrive – http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/187346-nasa-tests-impossible-no-fuel-quantum-space-engine-and-it-actually-works
This page is a work in progress, which makes sense considering the topic 🙂 .