Tech never stops moving.

Though large swaths of the tech world continue to reckon with the comedown from the heady funding bonanza of 2021, many spaces don’t seem to have slowed down at all. In fact, buzzy advances will start to pile up in the coming year.

Generative AI has already made a big splash, but on the horizon are also startups promising significantly longer human lifespans and healthcare monitoring tools that keep tabs on patients without adding any burden. Improvements in digital smell tech will provide new ways to probe the world and allow for more confident predictions about what food and beauty products consumers will enjoy.

Meanwhile, virtual power plants are becoming popular as a way for homes decked out with glossy solar panels and battery packs to make money while also helping electricity grids become much more resilient. And as plastics once again become a hot topic for industries, next-gen alternatives are being strung together from bio-based materials like seaweed and mushrooms.

But lots of tech players will also be adapting to a landscape where economic uncertainty looms large.