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Defining “Emerging Technologies”
AI, biotech, quantum computing, nanotech, and beyond.
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SUMMARY - Defining “Emerging Technologies”

A policymaker drafts legislation regulating "emerging technologies" to ensure ethical development, but struggles to specify which technologies the law covers. Artificial intelligence was emerging a decade ago but now powers billions of daily interactions. Blockchain was revolutionary in 2017 but has become routine infrastructure for some applications while failing to achieve predicted disruption in others. Quantum computing has been emerging for twenty years, always five to ten years away from practical deployment.

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