We have almost reached the end of the year which means list-time … Our fellow future-gazers over at SocialTechnologies asked themselves the following question:

“What will likely be the most important scientific and technological breakthroughs with significant commercial value and impacts on the lives of consumers out to 2025?”

In order to answer it they put together a global focus group of experts in the areas of business, technology and innovation, including members of the Association of Professional Futurists, Tekes, Duke University, Hasbro, Worldwatch, General Motors, Shell, Johnson Controls, Oxford University, and others.

The following list of twelve was the result:

1. personalized medicine
2. distributed energy
3. pervasive computing
4. nanomaterials
5. biomarkers for health
6. biofuels
7. advanced manufacturing
8. universal water
9. carbon management
10. engineered agriculture
11. security and tracking
12. advanced transportation

Via ChangeWaves

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