by Andrew Maynard | Jun 23, 2016 | Emerging Technology, Future, Responsible Innovation, Risk
Take an advanced technology. Add a twist of fantasy. Stir well, and watch the action unfold. It’s the perfect recipe for a Hollywood tech-disaster blockbuster. And clichéd as it is, it’s the scenario that we too often imagine for emerging technologies. Think...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 15, 2016 | Fourth Industrial Revolution, Future, Technology Innovation
In April 2000, Bill Joy famously wrote in Wired Magazine: Our most powerful 21st-century technologies – robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech – are threatening to make humans an endangered species. At the time, Joy was an accomplished technologist and chief...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 15, 2015 | Future, Public Health, Technology Innovation
The challenges of governing emerging technologies are highlighted by the World Economic Forum in the 2015 edition of its Global Risks Report. Focusing in particular on synthetic biology, gene drives and artificial intelligence, the report warns that these and other...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 7, 2014 | Emerging Technology, Risk
Over the next few days, I’ll be joining experts from around the world to address emerging global trends and challenges at the World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda. Framing our discussions will be the just-released Outlook on the Global Agenda 2015...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 2, 2014 | Technology Innovation
How do we chart a path forward toward the effective and responsible development and use of new technologies? For the next two years, the World Economic Forum Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies will be tackling this and other questions as it develops ways of...