New or 'emerging' technologies are technologies whose development, practical applications, or both are still largely unrealized. These technologies are generally new but also include older technologies finding new applications. Emerging technologies are often perceived as capable of changing the status quo.
Any set of productive techniquesA procedure, formula or routine by which an outcome or artwork is achieved, to include weaving thread into cloth with a darning needle, carving wood... which offers a significant improvement (whether measured in terms of increased output or savings in costs) over the established technology for a given processA series of actions, changes or operations performed in the making or creating of a product or outcomes. The procedures that one goes through in... in a specific historical context.