Emerging technologies

Technologies with a potentially accelerating trajectory that are of particular interest to transhumanists include:

• Healthy life extension
• Physical enhancement
• Cognitive enhancement
• Nootropics or Utilitropics
• Emotional enhancement
• Spiritual enhancement
• Artificial intelligence
• Human-Computer Interface
• Genetic engineering
• Nanotechnology
• Robotics
• Space exploration
• Cryonics
• Whole brain emulation
• Mind uploading
• Virtual reality
• Quantum computing
• Renewable energy
• Geo-engineering
• Paradise engineering
• Synthetic food
• 3D printing
• Blockchain
• Financial innovation
• Education innovation
• Sex robots
• Synthetic biology
• Tissue engineering

Factors affecting the general speed of development of these technologies include:

• The law of accelerating returns
• Open source development
• Eroom's Law
• The technology adoption lifecycle
• Product value chain issues
• Legislation of innovation
• Public mindset regarding technologies
• Political sponsorship of technologies
• Market successes and failures
• The scientific method
• Principles of rationality
• Principles of design
• Principles of project management
• DIY hacking
• Entrepreneurial development
• Continuous integration
• Exponential organizations