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Visualizing the Airbnb Landscape in Three Megacities

Since its inception in 2008, Airbnb has grown into one of the most popular travel and short-term accommodation apps on the market.

In 2021 alone, there were more than 300 million bookings (for both accommodation and experiences) made through the app.

To visualize just how massive the Airbnb landscape has become in major cities, this graphic by Preyash Shah shows every single listing in New York, London, and Paris.

About the Data

To make this graphic, Shah used September 2022 data from insideairbnb.com, a website that pulls data directly from the Airbnb app. Once collected, the raw data was then cleaned to include active listings only fitting a few key parameters:

  • Any listing that did not have a review in 2022 was removed
  • The most expensive listings were individually checked to ensure the listing price matched the actual historical price and removed if there was a major discrepancy. This is due to inactive listings that are extremely marked up instead of de-listed

After scrubbing the data, each city’s immediate metro area was left with roughly 20,000 listings.

As the data shows, a majority of these listings were for entire apartments. Paris had the biggest share, with about 85% of listings for entire apartments rather than private or shared rooms.

This is especially interesting considering that Paris has extremely strict regulations around short-term rentals and Airbnb usage, one being that an Airbnb rental must be someone’s primary residence.

Airbnb’s Beginnings

Two co-founders of Airbnb include Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, two roommates in San Francisco.

In an act of desperation, they decided to set up and rent out a few air mattresses on the floor of their apartment to help pay their rent. Free breakfast was included with the stay, and after getting $80 a night for each mattress, Chesky and Gebbia knew they were onto something.

Yet, while Airbnb has shown great success over the last decade, it’s received its fair share of criticism from skeptics. Because of concerns over housing supply and price gouging, many cities have put restrictions around the use of Airbnb, or even outright banned the platform.

Like other technology companies, Airbnb has had a challenging year in the stock market. Once valued at $113 billion in 2021, the company is currently sitting closer to a $60 billion market capitalization today.

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Visualizing the Top Emerging Technologies of 2025

We show the top 10 emerging tech of 2025, from structural battery composites to engineered living therapeutics.

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Visualizing the Top 10 Emerging Tech of 2025

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Key Takeaways

  • Structural battery composites and collaborative sensing stand among the top emerging technologies of 2025.
  • Additionally, engineered living therapeutics are an emerging technology that enable drugs to be produced within the body.
  • Technologies that make this list, compiled by WEF, are assessed on their societal impact, depth, and state of adoption.

As innovation accelerates at a breakneck speed, several emerging technologies stand to reshape industries and society.

From health care to materials science, technologies across multiple fields are at a tipping point. While many fail to achieve real-world applications, a select few break through the mold and gain commercial success.

This graphic shows the top 10 emerging technologies of 2025, based on analysis from the World Economic Forum.

The Most Promising Emerging Tech of the Year

In particular, the analysis highlights technologies at an early stage of adoption with the potential to reshape society.

While some of these technologies may still take years to fully commercialize, others are already gaining traction. Below, we show the top 10 emerging tech of 2025:

TechnologyDescription
🔋 Structural battery compositesBatteries that store energy in part of a frame,
such as a car's body panel
🌊 Osmotic power systems (blue energy)Special membranes that generate electricity
through the differing salt concentration between
seawater and freshwater
⚛️ Advanced nuclear technologiesDecrease costs, simplify designs, and improve
safety
🧬 Engineered living therapeuticsProgramming microbes within the body to produce
drugs internally
🧠 GLP-1s for neurodegenerative diseaseRe-engineering weight loss drugs to treat
neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimers or
Parkinson's
🩺 Autonomous biochemical sensorsRemote monitoring of health and biochemical
markers in real time
🌱 Green nitrogen fixationSustainable production of ammonia used in
fertilizer
🧪 NanozymesSynthetic enzyme-like nanomaterials for healthcare
and industry applications
📡 Collaborative sensingDistributed sensors combined with AI for better
decision-making and autonomous technologies
🖋️ Generative watermarkingInvisible watermarks on AI content to trace origins
and promote accountability

In the realm of health care, engineered living therapeutics offer a radical new approach: using programmed microbes that can produce medicine within the body itself.

This could revolutionize the treatment of chronic illnesses and dramatically lower the cost of delivering life-saving therapies. Similarly, the rise of GLP-1-based treatments, originally designed for diabetes and obesity, is now showing potential in slowing the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

On the energy front, advanced nuclear technologies, including modular reactors, are gaining momentum as scalable and safer sources of clean energy—vital in the global push to decarbonize.

Meanwhile, collaborative sensing—the use of interconnected sensors to gather real-time data—has applications ranging from smart cities to environmental monitoring, enabling faster and more informed decision-making.

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To dive deeper into the world’s most promising innovations, check out this graphic on the top emerging technologies of 2024.

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