Here are some of the latest trends and innovations ¹ ² ³:
- *Process automation and virtualization*: Next-level process automation and virtualization will be more prevalent, and around half of all existing work activities could be automated in the next few decades.
- *Generative AI*: This new technology has the potential to add as much as $4.4 trillion in economic value from a combination of specific use cases and more diffuse uses.
- *Bio Revolution*: This technology has the potential to revolutionize the health, agriculture, energy and materials sectors.
- *Future of clean tech*: Renewable energy, cleaner/greener transport, energy-efficient buildings and sustainable water consumption are at the heart of clean tech trends.
- *Spatial omics*: This technology can map biological processes at the molecular level and observe intricate details of cell architecture and biological processes.
- *Metaverse for mental health*: Virtual environments open up new opportunities to provide mental health treatments, covering a range of telemedicine applications, including prevention, diagnostics, therapy, education and research.
- *Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI)*: AI is one of the biggest tech trends and will be applied to further develop tech-based tools, such as training machines to recognize patterns, then act upon what it has detected.
- *Next-generation materials*: Developments in materials science have the potential to transform multiple market sectors, including pharma, energy, transportation, health, semiconductors and manufacturing.
- *Sustainable computing*: Several technologies are emerging, aimed at making the goal of net-zero-energy data centers a reality.