The World Economic Forum’s 17th New Champions Annual Meeting (Summer Davos,
Dalian 2026) published a report identifying ten emerging technologies likely to
significantly affect the world over the next five years: internet-of-everything
power grids; direct lithium extraction; passive radiative cooling materials;
PFAS degradation technologies; precision fermentation; exosome drug delivery;
personalized mRNA cancer vaccines; quantum simulation for drug discovery; world
models; and lattice-based cryptography.
