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The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future

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The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future

A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life.

Astonishing technological advances like these are arriving in increasing numbers. Scholar and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa uses this book to alert us to dozens of them and raise important questions about what they may mean for us.

Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, self-driving vehicles, drones, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. But the same technologies raise the specter of a frightening, alienating future: eugenics, a jobless economy, complete loss of privacy, and ever-worsening economic inequality. As Wadhwa puts it, our choices will determine if our future is Star Trek or Mad Max.

Wadhwa offers us three questions to ask about every emerging technology: Does it have the potential to benefit everyone equally? What are its risks and rewards? And does it promote autonomy or dependence? Looking at a broad array of advances in this light, he emphasizes that the future is up to us to createâ€”that even if our hands are not on the wheel, we will decide the driverless car's destination.

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781626569737
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Manufacturer	Berrett-Koehler Publishers
NumberOfPages	240
PublicationDate	2017-04-03
Publisher	Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ReleaseDate	2017-04-03
Studio	Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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