Emerging Technologies

If driverless cars end personal auto insurance, how will that affect other products? How do we assess the risk of a 3D-printed structure?

These five reasons also apply to incumbent insurers that face innovative challengers.

Sadly, few insurance executives attended the MIT symposium. This stresses the challenge we have as an industry to recognize the disruption that is underway.

<p>The Google car is nothing more than a mashup of widely available innovations. Similarly bold killer apps will upend every information-intensive industry.</p>

Costs will fall rapidly, and adoption and liability issues can be resolved reasonably quickly.