Hard Power

Critical Technology

The capacity to discover, make, deploy and control the technologies on which security and prosperity now depend, held as national capacity across ten technology families rather than as a catalogue of research fields.

Developments: 7,710c. 7000 BC to October 2026
With medium: 10,0693,350 very high
Nations: 200
Unverified: 4,7921,162 verified

The groups in this domain

Developments graded very high or high for each. Its thread below holds them all, each once.

Critical Technology

Semiconductors & Advanced Computing

Artificial Intelligence

Connectivity, Cyber & Trust Technologies

Space Technologies

Biotechnology & Health Technologies

Energy Technologies

Advanced Materials & Manufacturing

Sensing, Timing & Navigation

Robotics & Autonomous Systems

Quantum Technologies

1,633

1,529

857

781

765

695

549

507

432

368

Timeline

Every development graded as belonging to this domain, wherever it is kept: very high (about it), high (directly and substantially changes it), medium (a direct, material effect on it). A model gave the grades, reading each entry against the framework. A structured starting point, not a cited record. An entry marked unverified has not been checked against a source; tiers are assigned by a model and are not comparable between nation and capability timelines.

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