1. Emerging technologies
What are emerging technologies?
How are they found?

2. What is a technology?
Technology vs science

3. What do others think?
Conferences?
Books?

4. Conferences

5. Examples

6. MIT Emerging Technologies Conference - 2003

7. Meaning of “Emerging” What does “emerging” mean?
What does “emerged” mean?
How long can a technology emerge?
Stages of emergence?
Can it continue to emerge?
When is a technology mature?

8. Past Emerging technologies
What have been emerging technologies in the past?
Examples?

9. What is currently emerging?
How can we identify them?

10. Emerging failures
What “emerging technologies” didn’t emerge?

11. Past Predictions
These are real!

13. Creation of emerging technologies
What makes “emerging technologies” happen?

14. Emerging technologies impact
What impact will they have?
Individuals
Society
Environment

15. Emerging technologies future
Will technologies continue to emerge?
When is a technology mature?
What happens to a mature technology?

16. Emerging technologies future
Integration into existing mature technologies?