Abstract:

The report seeks to help professionals across sectors and industries anticipate exponential technologies, interpret their implications and champion industry-shaping and society-serving applications. Now in its 11th year, the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023 report outlines the technologies poised to positively impact society in the next three to five years. The report broadens its scope beyond describing the top 10 technologies and associated risks and opportunities to include a qualitative assessment of how each technology is set to impact people, the planet, prosperity, industry and equity. Unique for each technology, these “impact fingerprints” are meant to stimulate further analysis and debate about how emerging technologies – some of which you might never have heard of – can and will shape our collective future in the years ahead. Also new for the 2023 edition is a collection of transformation maps from the Forum’s Strategic Intelligence Platform, which provide deeper insights and context on each technology by showcasing how they connect to other topics on the global agenda and surfacing the latest trusted publications for further reading. This year’s report brings together the perspectives of over 90 experts in 20 countries from all world regions. This report would not be possible without their openness to contributing their insights, and we sincerely thank them all.