Technological Transformation

What new technologies carry the biggest risks?

A visitor stands in front of QR-codes information panels during a ceremony to open an information showroom dedicated to the Zaryadye park project in central Moscow April 29, 2014. The showroom, shaped as a dome which houses exhibition halls covered with QR-codes information panels and displaying digital illustration of the project, was opened by Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Tuesday on the site of the future park in a few minutes walk distance from Red Square and the Kremlin, according to organizers. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3N3Q3

Advances in technology can carry big risks. Image: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Alex Gray
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