The Stanford Emerging Technology Review
The Stanford Emerging Technology Review (SETR) helps America’s public and private sectors better understand transformational technologies so that the United States can seize opportunities, mitigate risks, and ensure its innovation ecosystem continues to thrive. A product of a major new Stanford education initiative and the flagship product of a collaboration between Stanford’s School of Engineering and the Hoover Institution — this ambitious technology education effort helps America’s leaders in government and business better understand transformational technologies so the US can seize opportunities, mitigate risks, and ensure its innovation ecosystem continues to thrive.
- Provides a comprehensive overview of ten frontier technologies, from AI to Robotics or Biology to Space, and how these will shape the future
- Involves nearly one hundred Stanford scholars across forty departments and research institutes
- Emphasizes the importance of American leadership at a time when technology is playing an ever more pivotal role in economic prosperity, national security, and geopolitics
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The Hoover Institution’s Technology Policy Accelerator conducts research and develops insights that help government and business leaders better understand emerging technology and its geopolitical implications so they can seize opportunities, mitigate risks, and advance American interests and values.
