2022 Emerging Technology Trends

From our founding office in Seattle to our offices across the United States and Asia, Perkins Coie attorneys advise the innovators who are driving technology transformations.

Continued advancements in technology are disrupting and altering the ways we live and work. Unanticipated demands resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have served to accelerate these changes.

The Emerging Technology Trends Report highlights ten notable areas, addressing the technology itself, as well as how these developments have driven new legal and regulatory demands.

AI, Machine Learning & Quantum Computing

With applications across industries, these developments are also raising new ethical, legal, and business issues.
Authors: John Delaney, Dean Harvey, Samuel Jo, Marc Martin, Justin Moon & Lisa Oratz

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Cloud Computing & Distributed Infrastructure

New methods for storing and access data are transforming operations in both public and private sector organizations.
Authors: Jesus Castillón, Peter Kinsella, Gilbert J. Villaflor & Justin Moon

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Digital Media & Entertainment

Technology has increasingly merged with media and entertainment, transforming content delivery and monetization.
Authors: Meeka Bondy, John Delaney, Ron Koo & Kirk Soderquist

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Greentech

The need to reduce companies’ carbon footprints is driving the development of technology to improve environmental sustainability and energy and other resource efficiency.
Authors: Bruce Dick & Heather Karell

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Fintech & Blockchain Technology

The financial services industry has seen a rapid transformation through its intersection with new technologies. It is one of the industries helping drive the creation of an entirely new suite of applications and products enabled by blockchain technology.
Authors: Logan Payne and Dax Hansen

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Healthtech & Medtech

New healthcare technologies are creating newer, more efficient modes of service delivery and advancements in diagnosis and treatment.
Authors: LaDale George & Mark Wicker

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Mobile Wireless Technology

Mobile wireless technologies are deployed by business, government, and consumers to support a breadth of uses and developments.
Authors: Marc Martin & Belinda Nixon

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Privacy & Security

As more businesses adopt new technologies, data privacy and security are becoming the highest priorities.
Authors: Adrienne Ehrhardt & Miriam Farhi

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Retail & E-Commerce

Technology and the pandemic have caused a sea change in the sales and delivery of products and services.
Author: Andrew Grant

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Robotics & Autonomous Systems

Developments in these technologies are enabling advances across a range of industries, including air and ground transportation, manufacturing, and healthcare.
Authors: Julien Bowers

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Spacetech

Technologies that support space travel and activities conducted in space are finding both military and civilian applications.
Authors: Stephanie Roy, Belinda Nixon & Marc Martin

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Key Contacts

Perkins Coie’s attorneys advise the world’s innovators and disruptors. This report’s authors have developed particular experience and knowledge in the highlighted technologies.

Jesús J. Castillón

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