List of emerging technologies

Brain–computer interface and neurotechnology

Emerging technology	Status	Potentially marginalized technologies	Potential applications	Related articles
Ampakine			Enhance attention span and alertness, and facilitate learning and memory
Electroencephalography			Controlling electronic devices via brain waves
Brain-reading, Neuroinformatics			Mind uploading
Neuroprosthetics			Visual prosthesis, brain implant, exocortex, retinal implant

 Computing and communications

Emerging technology	Status	Potentially marginalized technologies	Potential applications	Related articles
Artificial brain			Neurological disease's treatments, artificial intelligence	Blue Brain Project
Virtual Reality	diffusion	Television	Entertainment, education
Artificial intelligence	Theory, experiments; limited uses in specialized domains[20]	Human decision, analysis, etc.	Creating intelligent devices	Progress in artificial intelligence, applications of artificial intelligence
4G cellular communication	First commercial LTE networks deployed in Sweden December 2009; candidate systemsLTE-advanced and IEEE 802.16m (Mobile WiMAX Release 2) in development	broadband	Pervasive computing	Mobile broadband, mobile TV, Interactive TV, 3D-TV,[21] holographiccameras[21]
Machine translation	Diffusion[22][23]	Human translation of natural languages, in areas where misunderstanding is non-critical and language is formalized	Easier cross-cultural communication
Machine vision	Research, prototyping	Biotic vision and perception, including humans	Biometrics, controlling processes (e.g., in driverless car,automated guided vehicle), detecting events (e.g., in visual surveillance), interaction (e.g., in human-computer interaction), robot vision	Computer vision, pattern recognition, digital image processing
Speech recognition
Cybermethodology
Machine augmented cognition, exocortices	Diffusion of primitive amplifications; working prototypes of more; theory, experiments on more substantial amplification	Libraries, schools, training, pocket calculators
Mobile collaboration	Development, commercialization[24]	Traditional video-conferencing systems	Extends the capabilities of video conferencing for use on hand-held mobile devices in real-time over secure networks. For use in diverse industries such as manufacturing, energy, healthcare.[25]
Semantic Web oranswer machine	Theory, research	Search engines	Making the web machine-readable by annotating data on the web based on its meaning
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units	Diffusion of non standardized methods	CPU for a few specialized uses	Order of magnitude faster processing of parallelizablealgorithms
Fourth-generation optical discs (3D optical data storage,Holographic data storage)	Research, prototyping[26]	All other mass storagemethods/devices, magnetic tape data storage, optical data storage	Storing and archiving data previously erased for economic reasons	Holographic Disc Ultra HD Sony and other big companies are interested in this technology
Optical computing	Theory, experiments; some components of integrated circuits have been developed[27]	Many electronics devices, integrated circuits	Smaller, faster, lower power consuming computing
Quantum computing	Theory, experiments,[28] commercialization[29]	Electronic computing, optical computing, quantum clock	Much faster computing, for some kinds of problems, chemical modeling, new materials with programmed properties, theory of high-temperature superconductivityand superfluidity
Quantum cryptography	Commercialization[30]		Secure communications
Radio-frequency identification	Diffusion of high cost	Barcode	Smartstores - RFID based self checkout (keeping track of all incoming and outgoing products), food packaging,smart shelves, smart carts. See: potential uses
Three-dimensional integrated circuit		Conventional integrated circuit
Emerging computer memory technologies		Mechanical magnetic hard disk drives	Data storage

Display technology

Emerging technology	Status	Potentially marginalized technologies	Potential applications	Related articles
3D displays	Theory, experiments, commercialization[31]	other display technologies,CRT, LCD	Television, computer interfaces, cinemas	Autostereoscopic display, stereoscopic display,volumetric display, holographic display, Nintendo 3DS
Volumetric display			3-dimensional imagery	Swept-volume display
Free-space display			3-dimensional imagery	Swept-volume display
Organic light-emitting diode	first commercial OLED TV in 2008, Sony XEL-1	LCD and plasma displays	Displays, lighting	OLED TV, Comparison of display technology
Interferometric modulator display	Development, commercializing[32]	Other display technologies, CRT, LCD, plasma, e-paper	Non-emissive displays with fast response times and potentially the most realistic colors of all display technologies	Interferometric modulator display, comparison of display technology
Laser video displays	first commercial Laser TV in 2008, Mitsubishi LaserVue TV	LCD and plasma displays	Displays with very wide colour gamut prowess	Laser TV, Comparison of display technology Next generation of display technology
Next generation of display technology		LCD and plasma displays	Better displays	Comparison of display technology
Screenless display (Virtual retinal display, Bionic contact lens)	Theory, experiments	Traditional displays	Augmented reality, virtual reality	Head-mounted display, Head-up display, adaptive optics
Phased-array optics	Theory[33][34]	Conventional display devices (e.g., television)	Mass production of 3-dimensional imagery
Holography (Holographic display, Computer-generated holography)	Diffusion[35][36][37]	Display technologies
Multi-primary color display	Diffusion	RGB color model in televisions and cameras	Displays with larger color gamut	Quattron
Ultra High Definition Television	Diffusion	HDTV	Displays with higher more pixels

 Others

Emerging technology	Status	Potentially marginalized technologies	Potential applications	Related articles
Directed energy weapon	Research, development, some prototypes[58]	Guns
Electromagnetic weapons	In development	Guns		Coilgun,Railgun
Miniaturized satellite	Research, development, some prototypes	Conventional satellites	Inexpensive satellites, constellations for low data rate communications, using formations to gather data from multiple points, in-orbit inspection of larger satellites.
Magnetic levitation	Research, development	Wheels, tires, conventional transportation systems	Maglev train(since when is the maglev train a potential application? it's really happening , so someone edit this article to reflect the reality ), high temperature superconductivity, cryogenics, low temperature refrigerators, superconducting magnet design and construction, fiber reinforced plastics for vehicles and structural concretes, communication and high power solid-state controls, vehicle design (aerodynamics and noise mitigation), precision manufacturing, construction and fabrication of concrete structures,[59] maglev car, maglev based spacecraft launch	Levicar