Crowd Assessment of the Military Utility of Future Technologies
Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2025

Effective development of military capability in peacetime requires the ability to predict the implications of future technologies. To this end, technology forecasting is greatly important. This study adopts a design science approach to explore whether crowdsourcing and the anonymous, asynchronous involvement of experts through a web-based application could enhance the validity of an already-established method for military utility assessment of future technologies (MUAFT). A dedicated application