New Tools for Science Policy

Future Conflict & Emerging Technologies

This New Tools seminar explores the rapidly evolving environment for conflict, examining how destabilizing geopolitical factors and fast-moving technologies are making familiar institutions and assumptions questionable, if not obsolete.

About the Seminar

December 09, 2016 8:30am—10:30am

Rapid advances in technology are making the world more complex, interconnected, and dangerous—while undermining the long-standing tools, institutions, and assumptions we have developed to manage conflict. From the digital frontier of cyber conflict to the use of autonomous lethal military robots, the arenas, actors, and objectives of modern conflict are changing in unpredictable ways. Political upheavals at home and abroad have only intensified the sense that we are entering uncharted territory.

Navigating this new geopolitical landscape requires understanding how emerging military and security technologies can affect strategy, warfare, and geopolitics. For our next New Tools for Science Policy seminar, join ASU Professor Braden Allenby and The Intercept national security reporter Sharon Weinberger as they discuss the shifting dynamics of modern conflict.

Location Information

ASU Washington Center
1834 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20009

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Speakers

Braden Allenby

Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering

Brad Allenby is the Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and professor of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University. He is the founding director of the Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management, and…

Sharon Weinberger

Sharon Weinberger is a national security reporter for The Intercept with a focus on science and technology issues. She just completed a forthcoming history of the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to be published by Knopf. Most recently,…

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