The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2012

摘要

The World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies has just released its list of "The 2012 Top Ten Most Important Technologies", The list highlights technology trends most likely to impact thestate ofthe world in the near future and was developed by a cross section of experts from science, businesses and public policy. The technologies are expected to have major social, economic and environmental impacts.Council Chair Professor Sang Yup Lee at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (also co-Editor-in-Chief of Biotechnology Journal) explained that "accelerating progress in science and technology has stimulated a new age of discovery, and many of the technologies identified bythecouncil arecritical to building a sustainable and resilient future."