About the Science Breakthrough Radar
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1.1Advanced AI1.2QuantumRevolution1.3UnconventionalComputing1.4AugmentedReality1.5CollectiveIntelligence2.1CognitiveEnhancement2.2HumanApplicationsof GeneticEngineering2.3HealthspanExtension2.4ConsciousnessAugmentation2.5Organoids2.6FutureTherapeutics3.1Decarbonisation3.2EarthSystemsModelling3.3FutureFoodSystems3.4SpaceResources3.5OceanStewardship3.6SolarRadiationModification3.7InfectiousDiseases4.1Science-basedDiplomacy4.2Advancesin ScienceDiplomacy4.3Foresight,Prediction,and FuturesLiteracy4.4Democracy-affirmingTechnologies5.1ComplexSystemsScience5.2Futureof Education5.3Future Economics,Trade andGlobalisation5.4The Scienceof theOrigins of Life5.5SyntheticBiology

About the Science Breakthrough Radar

    A Swiss foundation with global reach and a private-public partnership working from Geneva, GESDA was started in September 2019 to develop and promote anticipatory science and diplomacy for greater impact and multilateral effectiveness.

    The GESDA Science Breakthrough Radar is:

    • A new tool for multilateralism, informed discussions, and concerted action.

    • A single point of entry to catch up with the unprecedented pace of science and technology.

    • A factual basis for eye-opening reflections on the impacts of future scientific discoveries for people, society and the planet.

    • An interactive, evolving instrument.

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    The Science Breakthrough Radar comprises 5 scientific platforms, 42 emerging topics and 324 breakthroughs at 5, 10 and 25 years of interest for science.

    It contains 3 lenses on philosophy and geopolitics and science, on 3 fundamental questions about the future of humanity, debated by 84 scholars from philosophy, social sciences, humanities and geopolitics.

    More than 1,500 scientists have been involved since the creation of the Radar In 2021:

    • 543 scientists from 53 countries in 2021

    • 774 scientists from 70 countries in 2022

    • 848 scientists from 73 countries in 2023

    It includes analysis of over 10 million social media posts and 1.3 million articles in mainstream media in order to take the pulse of society on what people do and say about emerging scientific topics on the five scientific platforms.

    It presents the Open Quantum Institute 2023 incubation report, GESDA's first Solution Idea ready for pilot implementation.