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SEST-562 Emerging Technologies and Security
Fall only
This course surveys nascent technologies that have the potential to transform global security and conflict behavior during the first half of the 21st century. The course begins with an overview of recent scientific progress in a spectrum of emerging technologies, and then shifts to a weekly exposition of specific new technologies. Key topics include genetic engineering, nanotechnology, superconductivity, machine intelligence, micromechanical systems, high-energy lasers, virtual reality, and nonlethal weapons. In assessing the significance of these technologies, the course examines not only their direct military consequences, but broader cultural and economic implications that may indirectly have security ramifications. The potential for various technologies to transform security relationships is explored.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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Spring '10:
VanAtta, Richard
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SEST-562-01 Emerging Technologies and Security
Fall only
Van Atta
This course surveys nascent technologies that have the potential to transform global security and conflict behavior during the first half of the 21st century. The course begins with an overview of recent scientific progress in a spectrum of emerging technologies, and then shifts to a weekly exposition of specific new technologies. Key topics include genetic engineering, nanotechnology, superconductivity, machine intelligence, micromechanical systems, high-energy lasers, virtual reality, and nonlethal weapons. In assessing the significance of these technologies, the course examines not only their direct military consequences, but broader cultural and economic implications that may indirectly have security ramifications. The potential for various technologies to transform security relationships is explored.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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