Emerging Technologies is a technology foresight, innovation and strategy (FIS) degree, focusing on identifying, envisioning, assessing and analyzing emerging technologies that may be beneficial, disruptive or of interest to real-world clients. Students gain exposure to emerging technologies in any of seven fundamental, rapidly accelerating, and converging technology clusters-Physical Sciences, Engineering and Nanotech; Energy, Sustainability and Greentech; Military, Security and Transparency; Information Technologies, AI and Robotics; Social, Economic and Political Technologies; Cognitive, Educational and Neuro-technologies; and Biotech, Medicine and Enhancement. Depending on course scheduling, students may study a particular cluster of interest in class or in credited independent study. Case studies in each cluster stress technology foresight, innovation, strategy and assessment interrelationships with other clusters, and social, economic and political issues relevant to strategy. Students gain research, critical thinking, analytical, presentation, project and teamwork skills in course deliverables. Graduates may work in technology FIS, consulting, management, assessment, military, security, policy, journalism, education, non-profit and other domains.

Emerging Technologies Degree Objectives

Gain functional literacy in any of seven rapidly-improving technology clusters currently impacting 21st-century civilization, and promising to have even greater effects in the coming decade.
Explore exponential trends, cycles of change, convergences, interrelationships, and first- and second-order uses and effects of these technologies on organizations and society.
Understand ethical, social, economic, legal and political forces mediating the development and deployment of new technologies, and implications for organizational strategy.
Learn to assess and analyze emerging technologies from the perspective of a range of real-world clients, including corporations, media, non-profits, education, government and the military.
Complete a thesis involving research, data, forecasting, foresight and strategy in relation to an emerging technologies opportunity or threat for a specific hypothetical or actual client.