Those who closely follow news and views on AI risk missing out on nine other technology categories that are changing our world just as fast.
Or, as Stanford Prof. Condoleezza Rice puts it, we presently face a “hinge-of-history” moment. “Never before have so many emerging technologies advanced so quickly or with such far-reaching consequences. … History will judge not only what we invented but also how and why we chose to do so.” The former U.S. secretary of state and national security advisor uses those words to introduce an important new report from Stanford’s Hoover Institution, which she leads. The 228-page volume, released Jan. 26, is the third annual edition of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review. Of course AI is covered. But what else? Read on for excerpts from a subsection on emerging technologies in, specifically, health and medicine.