Issue Technology decisions move to municipal, hospital and regional actors
Summary
The report argues that strategic technology decisions are being redistributed far beyond the industries that used to hold them: a municipal authority procuring a transport fleet is partly deciding who benefits from grid flexibility, a hospital system deciding whether to manufacture therapies is deciding which patients receive them, and a regional government weighing refining capacity is deciding whose livelihoods survive the transition.
Classification
Main topicDemocracy & Governance
Region menusGlobal
Impactscope:global
Time horizon0-3 years (2026-07-26)
Last updated2026-07-29 04:49:52
Evidence 1
- Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2026 World Economic Forum (in collaboration with Frontiers) page=36;section=The emerging landscape 2026-06 accessed 2026-07-26
Constituent trends 3
Directly linked signals 1
Relation types: constitutes · direct_urgent
Public id: fm-ab07cf749536