Understanding Emerging Technologies

Understanding Emerging Technologies surveys a wide range of new technologies that are poised to dramatically reshape the ways we work, run organizations, and engage in civic life. Specifically, this course will explore innovations including artificial intelligence, brain computer interfaces, immersive technologies like virtual reality, biotechnology, space technologies, and quantum computing. Students will become better-versed in the potential applications for these technologies across the public and private sectors, some of the associated societal challenges they present, key policy choices, and implications for international affairs. Policy considerations will include both the near term, but also the longer run disruptive potential changes associated with these technologies.