Icl: Periodic Tabular Array Of Disruptive Technologies
From Imperial College London via the Business School:
Richard Watson, Futurist-in-Residence at the Tech Foresight Practice at Imperial College London
I stumbled upon a Wikipedia page of late almost disruptive technologies. While the page provided a skillful summary of what’s coming next, it failed to excite me for a discover of reasons. First, although the technologies were grouped past times manufacture or sector, which was useful, in that location was no chronology or ranking of potential force. I idea Imperial’s Tech Foresight squad could create better, together with so here, for your delectation together with delight, is a tabular array of 100 emerging technologies ranked past times both fourth dimension together with disruptive potential position together past times Anna Cupani together with I, amongst the input together with feedback of many academics together with brilliantly brought to life past times Lawrence Whiteley at Wond.
The technologies are divided into iv groups. Horizon i technologies (green bottom left on the table) are technologies that are happening right now. If they are appropriate to your business, you lot should travel integrating together with executing these technologies right now.
Horizon ii technologies (yellow) are belike close futurity technologies (10-20 years hence). Experiment together with beak over if appropriate.
Horizon 3 technologies (red) are technologies that are belike to emerge inwards the to a greater extent than distant futurity (20 years plus). Keep an oculus on developments inwards these areas together with explore if appropriate.
The outer border of the tabular array (grey) contains what we’ve termed Ghost Technologies. This is fringe thinking amongst to a greater extent than or less examples bordering on lunacy. However, piece each trial is highly improbable none, or really few, are genuinely impossible. There was to a greater extent than or less fence every bit to whether to include this department on the footing that many of these ‘technologies’ are pseudo-science, precisely if the history of scientific discipline & applied scientific discipline tells us anything it’s for sure that what starts off every bit impossible or implausible frequently ends upward beingness obvious or inevitable.
Finally, on the far right of the tabular array are examples of companies active inwards each of the applied scientific discipline areas. We are grateful to Gaby Lee for her aid together with extensive search on the internet. We excluded Imperial College hither because it felt similar nosotros powerfulness travel blowing our ain trumpet a fiddling also much. Also, because a planned futurity version is proposed that volition highlight where Imperial is active.
So, here’s a billion-dollar question.
Assuming this tabular array is roughly correct, how powerfulness you lot location the companies or organisations that volition succeed commercially? Which companies powerfulness you lot invest inwards or acquire? To my mind, this is roughly the same every bit quest what are the rules for invention or how powerfulness you lot brand your companionship to a greater extent than innovative together with amend positioned to succeed inwards a competitive together with volatile environment?
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