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1Quantum Revolution& Advanced AI2HumanAugmentation3Eco-Regeneration& Geo-Engineering4Science& Diplomacy1.11.21.31.42.12.22.32.43.13.23.33.43.54.14.24.34.44.5HIGHEST ANTICIPATIONPOTENTIALAdvancedArtificial IntelligenceQuantumTechnologiesBrain-inspiredComputingBiologicalComputingCognitiveEnhancementHuman Applications of Genetic EngineeringRadical HealthExtensionConsciousnessAugmentation DecarbonisationWorldSimulationFuture FoodSystemsSpaceResourcesOceanStewardshipComplex Systems forSocial EnhancementScience-basedDiplomacyInnovationsin EducationSustainableEconomicsCollaborativeScience Diplomacy
1Quantum Revolution& Advanced AI2HumanAugmentation3Eco-Regeneration& Geo-Engineering4Science& Diplomacy1.11.21.31.42.12.22.32.43.13.23.33.43.54.14.24.34.44.5HIGHEST ANTICIPATIONPOTENTIALAdvancedArtificial IntelligenceQuantumTechnologiesBrain-inspiredComputingBiologicalComputingCognitiveEnhancementHuman Applications of Genetic EngineeringRadical HealthExtensionConsciousnessAugmentation DecarbonisationWorldSimulationFuture FoodSystemsSpaceResourcesOceanStewardshipComplex Systems forSocial EnhancementScience-basedDiplomacyInnovationsin EducationSustainableEconomicsCollaborativeScience Diplomacy

Invited Contributions

The invited contributions explore areas of science with high anticipation potential that will be further developed in future editions of the Science Breakthrough Radar.
The section presents short pieces by named scientists that provide a description of current state-of-knowledge and research questions, how the field might evolve in a 25 years perspective and why it matters.
The Ethics of Anticipation
Anticipation is a vital part of any decision one has to make. When we innovate, we create opportunities and risks. If our innovations are to bring long-term economic, social and ecological progress, it is important to anticipate the widest possible variety of outcomes and steer innovation in the direction that brings the most added value and the least harm.
The Origins of Life
What is life? Scientists have puzzled over this question for centuries, but the discovery of planets outside our solar system means that it has taken on new importance in recent years.
Managing Solar Radiation

Even to an audience that has grown numb to climate warnings, a working group report published in August as part of the IPCC’s latest assessment report (AR6) was alarming. The threat of catastrophic impacts felt grimly familiar, but what hit hardest was the rapidly dwindling time left to avoid them, and the woeful, continued shortfall — even after so much discussion and effort — of the world’s emergency response.

Global resources stewardship on a healthy planet: the solution toolbox
Nature’s goods and services are the ultimate foundation — the resource — of life and health, and we humans are strongly interested in preserving health. And yet, while the availability of resources drives our individual and collective decision-making, we have allowed our public and private resources to be managed in an unsustainable way.
Digitalisation of Conflict
Digital technologies are playing a twofold role in conflict. On the one hand, they are used to extend power politics into the poorly regulated domain of global data exchange; on the other hand, they can contribute to better understanding and monitoring of conflict.
Futures Literacy
Life exists in our universe, as does time, hence it is no surprise that all living things incorporate the “later-than-now” in their functioning. Anticipatory systems and processes, the fruit of serendipitous evolutionary wanderings, express an amazing diversity of reasons and methods for taking into account the not-yet-existing future.