The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Your Technology Choices Create the Future
"Tech experts Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever have updated their bestseller to better help readers make choices that will lead to a Star Trek future and not Mad Max"--
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Book Information
Publisher: | ReadHowYouWant |
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Publish Date: | 04/03/2017 |
Pages: | 360 |
ISBN-13: | 9780369313935 |
ISBN-10: | 0369313933 |
Language: | English |
Full Description
Tech experts Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever describe dozens of astonishing technological advances in this fascinating and thought-provoking book, which asks what kind of future lies ahead--Star Trek or Mad Max? Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, drones, self-driving vehicles, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. On the other hand, the same technologies raise the specter of a frightening future--eugenics, a jobless economy, a complete loss of privacy, and ever-worsening economic inequality. Wadhwa says that we need to ask three questions about every emerging technology: Does it have the potential to benefit everyone equally? What are the risks and the rewards? And does it promote autonomy or dependence? This edition is updated throughout and includes a new chapter on quantum computing, which promises vastly increased processing times--and vastly increased security risks. In the end, our future is up to us; our hands may not be on the wheel, but we will decide the driverless car's destination.