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Top 10 emerging technologies for 2026 unveiled at Summer Davos forum
Guests take pictures inside the Dalian International Conference Center, the main venue of the 2026 Summer Davos in Dalian, Liaoning province, on June 22. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]
The top ten emerging technologies are:
— 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.
The World Internet Conference (WIC) was established as an international organization on July 12, 2022, headquartered in Beijing, China. It was jointly initiated by Global System for Mobile Communication Association (GSMA), National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT), China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Alibaba Group, Tencent, and Zhijiang Lab.
