No country has the capacity to assess the impact on society, politics or the economy of all of the individual technologies flooding global markets or of the many creative apps based on them. This course introduces key concepts, current challenges, and practical insights of an escalating crisis in technology policy. It is built around  the concept and practices of Technology Impact Assessment (TIA). This is a policy tool for managing technology policy in the US and Europe has been in existence  for more than five decades. TIA is the systematic analysis of the impacts arising from the use of technologies. This includes both specialist assessment of their technical performance characteristics and cost-benefit considerations as well as consultations across diverse stakeholder groups (such as government, industry, academia, and society) to determine broader social, political, legal or economic consequences.