10 Facts About Emerging technologies

Emerging technologies are technologies whose development, practical applications, or both are still largely unrealized.

Emerging technologies are often perceived as capable of changing the status quo.

Emerging technologies are characterized by radical novelty, relatively fast growth, coherence, prominent impact, and uncertainty and ambiguity.

Emerging technologies include a variety of technologies such as educational technology, information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

Emerging technologies are those technical innovations which represent progressive developments within a field for competitive advantage; converging technologies represent previously distinct fields which are in some way moving towards stronger inter-connection and similar goals.

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Some Emerging technologies are due to theoretical research, and others from commercial research and development.

Advocates of the benefits of technological change typically see emerging and converging technologies as offering hope for the betterment of the human condition.

However, critics of the risks of technological change, and even some advocates such as transhumanist philosopher Nick Bostrom, warn that some of these technologies could pose dangers, perhaps even contribute to the extinction of humanity itself; i e, some of them could involve existential risks.

Projects funded by DARPA have provided significant Emerging technologies that influenced many non-military fields, such as the Internet and Global Positioning System technology.

Term bleeding edge has been used to refer to some new Emerging technologies, formed as an allusion to the similar terms "leading edge" and "cutting edge".