Emerging Technologies

Insurance is ripe for disruption, and here are seven candidates that could revolutionize the industry much as Uber is upending travel.

Driverless cars will have to choose between evils when an accident is imminent, posing thorny ethics issues for makers and for insurers.

Does social media have a place in a "boring" business like insurance? Ask yourself: Do people often talk about your business at the dinner table?

As "unicorns" (private companies with a billion-dollar market cap) proliferate, insurers are seeing the value of venture capital and start-ups.

Will drones invade our privacy? Or will they make our lives easier and aid society in ways that haven't even been thought of yet?

To really be the "can-do" coverage for the poor, it is not enough for microinsurance to be affordable and accessible.

Exoskeletons, autonomous vehicles, surveillance and wearable biometrics and robotics are changing risk in profound but uncertain ways.

Drones clearly carry huge advantages, but they also raise tricky questions. What happens when they see things that should stay private?