Risk and the Future

Catalog description

Examines the evolving global risk landscape that is resulting from rapidly increasing global connectivity, tight coupling and massive complexity. Develops an understanding of how innovation in society is changing the risk landscape and considers how innovation in approaches to risk can help navigate this emerging landscape. Topics include technological risk, sociopolitical risk, catastrophic risk, existential risk, converging technologies, perception and uncertainty, anticipation, precaution, uncertainty and risk innovation.