Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Chapters: 2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future, 5G, Big data, Causal layered analysis, Center for Nanotechnology in Society, Center on Nanotechnology and Society, Clarke's three laws, Clean Energy Trends, Delphi method, Differential technological development, Emerging technologies, Futures studies, Futuribles International, Immersion (virtual reality), Kaya identity, List of emerging technologies, Monitoring (medicine), Non-Nuclear Futures, Physics of the Future, Project Hieroglyph, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, Pure fusion weapon, Ray Hammond, Real-time Delphi, Singularitarianism, Technology assessment, Timeline of the future in forecasts. Excerpt: This is a list of currently emerging technologies, which contains some of the most prominent ongoing developments, advances, and innovations in various fields of modern technology. Emerging technologies are those technical innovations which represent progressive developments within a field for competitive advantage. GeneralList of inventors, List of inventions, Industrial Ecology, Sustainable developmentNano-Molecular manufacturing, NeurotechnologyBioscienceHuman Connectome ProjectEthicsCasuistry, Computer ethics, Engineering ethics, Nanoethics, Bioethics, Neuroethics, RoboethicsOtherAnthropogenics, Machine guidance, Radio frequency identification, National Science Foundation, Virtual realityTimelineTimeline of the future in forecastsTransportList of proposed future transport Futures studies (also called futurology) is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science. In general, it can be considered as a branch of the social sciences and parallel to the field of history. In the same way that history studies the past, futures studies considers the future. Futures studies (colloquially called "futures" by many of the field's practitioners) seeks to understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly change. Part of the discipline thus seeks a systematic and pattern-based understanding of past and present, and to determine the likelihood of future events and trends. Unlike the physical sciences where a narrower, more specified system is studied, futures studies concerns a much bigger and more complex world system. The methodology and knowledge are much less proven as compared to natural science or even social science like sociology, economics, and political science. Futures studies is an interdisciplinary field, studying yesterday's and today's changes, and aggregating and analyzing both lay and professional strategies an