Trends Identified

Digital footprint eraser
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Suicide Machine (Netherlands), Just Delete Me (US).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Personal digital shields
Example of Organizationsactive in the area:2 No example found.
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Human head transplants
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group (Italy).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Human cloning & de-extinction
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Sooam (South Korea), Revive and Restore (US).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Distributed autonomous corporations
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: No example found.
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Space solar power
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Rebeam (US), Solaren Corp (US).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Space elevators
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Thoth Technology (Canada).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Fully immersive virtual reality (VR)
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Improbable (UK), HelloVR (US), Magic Leap (US), Microsoft (US). See also Mind Maze (US), Facebook (US) and possibly Apple (US).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Artificial conciosness
Example of Organizationsactive in the area:Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Possibly Alphabet/Google (US).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London
Space exploration will open up in 2018 - Eye-catching space missions could boost dreams of setting up bases on celestial bodies
If all goes well, on November 26th 2018 NASA’s InSight unmanned spacecraft will slice into Mars’s thin atmosphere at a blistering 3.2km (2 miles) a second, open a parachute, fire retrorockets, jettison its heat shield and softly land. It will be the culmination of an exciting year of space travel.
2018
The world in 2018
The Economist