https://en.people.cn/n3/2026/0623/c90000-20469832.html

At the World Economic Forum “Summer Davos 2026” held in Dalian, China, a report was released which focus on the following emerging technologies with huge economic impact. https://www.weforum.org/publications/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2026/

• Everything-to-grid energy, enabling electric vehicles and buildings to store electricity and feed it back to the grid on demand.
• Direct lithium extraction, replacing slow evaporation ponds with engineered systems that pull battery-grade lithium from salt flats in hours.
• Passive radiative cooling materials, keeping buildings cool without consuming any power.
• PFAS destruction, breaking down “forever chemicals” into harmless, natural substances for clean drinking water.
• Precision fermentation, brewing food ingredients and medicines.
• Exosome drug delivery, using the human body’s natural cellular packages to deliver targeted medicines precisely to diseased cells.
• Personalized mRNA cancer vaccines, training a patient’s immune system to find and destroy cancer cells.
• Quantum simulation for drug discovery.
• World models, predicting real-world scenarios.
• Lattice-based cryptography, designed to protect sensitive digital data from being hacked by future quantum computers.