Defining "Emerging Technology"?

At our first Emerging Technology Governance Brainstorm on December 13th, the natural starting point for all of us was “What is an emerging technology anyway"?

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Emerging Technology Governance Project
What are the 'emerging’ technologies?
Defining "Emerging Technology"?
Emerged but still "new" technologies?
Is it meaningful to group the technologies together?
Other candidates for emerging technologies?
Who will define it? What is their 'authority'
Why do we need a definition at all?
WEF - Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies Definition
Cloning - animal/for meds/ for food/human/plant?
Cloud computing
Genomics
Geoengineering
Nanotechnologies
Optogenetics
Shale Gas extraction?
Smart switching
'Sophisticated materials' - nanotechnologies and others?
Swarm robotics
Synthetic biology
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