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2013 Top 10 Emerging Technologies

The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies has named the top 10 most promising technology trends that can help to deliver sustainable growth in the future. The Council considers these technologies to have made development breakthroughs and to be approaching large-scale deployment.

 

  • OnLine Electric Vehicles (OLEV)
  • 3-D printing and remote manufacturing
  • Self-healing materials
  • Energy-efficient water purification
  • Carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion and use
  • Carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion and use
  • Remote sensing
  • Precise drug delivery through nanoscale engineering
  • Organic electronics and photovoltaics
  • Fourth-generation reactors and nuclear-waste recycling

 

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A Dash of Maxwell’s: A Maxwell’s Equations Primer – Part Two

Maxwell’s Equations are eloquently simple yet excruciatingly complex. Their first statement by James Clerk Maxwell in 1864 heralded the beginning of the age of radio and, one could argue, the age of modern electronics.

Source:  World Economic Forum

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