What we distinguish.
Measured
Historical observations, audited measurements and actual operating results are identified with their source and period. A cost change in one technology is not automatically a change in customer bills.
Demonstrated
A laboratory result proves something happened under defined conditions. It does not by itself prove the product is safe, commercially scalable or broadly available.
Projected
Models and scenarios explain what may happen under assumptions. They are useful for planning but must not be presented as the future already observed.
Exploratory
Research leads can be valuable without being ready for a public WOW claim. Our full indicator and opportunity inventories are preserved even when publication is deferred.
The editorial standard.
Make the reader say WOW. Help them understand why. Show what becomes possible. Explain what it means for them. Then show the science. The first layer is written in human language at a Grade 12 comprehension level; the research layer preserves complexity, caveats and original sources.
Every article should offer a coherent five-step summary, substantial prose, distinct implications for people and industries, and source-backed limitations. We avoid generic boilerplate and publish fewer, better-developed stories rather than presenting unfinished research as a complete article.
The protected research inventory.
Our original research archive includes 100 candidate indicators, 30 convergence cases, 50 opportunity concepts, 75 editorial ideas, 50 timeline candidates and 30 explorer ideas. Many overlap. They remain preserved as research records, while the V6 public library concentrates on 70 individually developed stories. The records below are an editorial research inventory, not seventy or one hundred independently verified trend series.
Open the 100 candidate indicator titles +
- Frontier model training compute — Anchored; partial series
- Model inference price at fixed benchmark score — Anchored; partial series
- Agent end-to-end task accuracy — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Frontier model benchmark score — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Agent task completion reliability — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- AI hardware price-performance — Anchored; partial series
- AI hardware efficiency — Anchored; partial series
- Frontier training cluster power — Anchored; partial series
- Algorithmic efficiency at fixed benchmark — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Organizational AI adoption — Anchored; partial series
- Human genome production sequencing cost — Anchored; partial series
- DNA sequencing cost per megabase — Anchored; partial series
- Genome sequence production throughput — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Number of reference genome assemblies — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Population genomes sampled — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Protein structures in AlphaFold DB — Anchored; partial series
- Protein structure experimental validation rate — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Gene editing regulatory approvals — Anchored; partial series
- Gene therapy clinical-trial enrolment — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Single-cell transcriptomic profiles deposited — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Robotic lab experiments completed per day — Anchored; partial series
- Autonomous materials synthesis target success — Anchored; partial series
- Predicted new crystal structures — Anchored; partial series
- Predicted stable candidate structures — Anchored; partial series
- Independent experimental confirmations of predicted structures — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- AI-supported science publications — Anchored; partial series
- Scientific paper replication accuracy by agents — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Research cycle duration from hypothesis to validated result — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Robotic lab successful synthesis yield — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Scientific agent benchmark vs PhD baseline — Anchored; partial series
- Annual industrial robot installations — Anchored; partial series
- Operational stock of industrial robots — Anchored; partial series
- Industrial robot density — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Service robot annual installations — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Autonomous mobile robots in commercial deployment — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Autonomous vehicle rider-only miles — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Commercial robotaxi paid trips — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Robot fleet utilization rate — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Human intervention frequency in robotic deployments — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Multi-robot task throughput — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Leading edge foundry process revenue share — Anchored; partial series
- Advanced-node mass production milestone — Anchored; partial series
- Chip energy per inference task — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- AI accelerator installed computational capacity — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- GPU effective memory bandwidth — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Advanced memory bit density — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Training data centre power density — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Chiplet package interconnect throughput — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Data centre capital investment — Anchored; partial series
- High-performance compute energy efficiency — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Population using the internet — Anchored; partial series
- Population offline — Anchored; partial series
- Fixed-broadband subscriptions — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Mobile-broadband subscriptions — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- 5G population coverage — Anchored; partial series
- International internet bandwidth — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Annual fixed broadband traffic — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Annual mobile broadband traffic — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Satellite Earth-observation data availability — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Percentage of sensing data retained — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Global data centre electricity consumption — Anchored; partial series
- AI-focused data centre electricity demand — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Global renewable power capacity additions — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Solar PV levelized generation cost — Anchored; partial series
- Onshore wind levelized generation cost — Anchored; partial series
- Installed grid-scale battery system cost — Anchored; partial series
- Annual grid-scale battery additions — Anchored; partial series
- Grid connection queue length — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Energy storage duration at commercial scale — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Solar cell record conversion efficiency — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Annual electric vehicle sales — Anchored; partial series
- Electric vehicle share of new sales — Anchored; partial series
- Industrial electricity demand growth — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Electricity demand growth from data centres — Anchored; partial series
- Real-world AI adoption in clinical workflows — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Share of AI use with human oversight — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Business agent deployment by function — Anchored; partial series
- Robots installed per manufacturing worker — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- AI adoption gap across firm sizes — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Training and digital-skill gap — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Validated AI-proposed new drug candidates — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Autonomous synthesis successes validated independently — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Clinical gene editing patients treated — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- AI-enabled grid flexibility dispatched — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Robot fleet autonomous task hours — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- AI-assisted battery compound experimental wins — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Genomic diagnosis turnaround time — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Materials screening-to-prototype cycle length — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Industrial design iteration time — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Energy per unit of validated scientific discovery — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Global AI corporate investment — Anchored; partial series
- Public research AI expenditure — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- AI task productivity change in field trials — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Share of science output with AI component — Anchored; partial series
- Electricity sector low-emission generation growth — Anchored; partial series
- Avoided fuel expenditures from renewable deployment — Anchored; partial series
- Net job creation in automation adopting firms — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Technology capability diffusion lag — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- Broadband affordability burden — Research candidate; no audited numeric baseline
- AI patent grants — Anchored; partial series