The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Your Technology Choices Create the Future
Vivek Wadhwa · Alex Salkever
Jun 2019 · Berrett-Koehler Audio · Narrated by James Gillies
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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.
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.
About the author
Vivek Wadhwa is a distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School and Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering in Silicon Valley. He is a globally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post.
Alex Salkever is vice president of marketing communications at Mozilla. He was a technology editor of BusinessWeek and a regular science contributor to the Christian Science Monitor. Wadhwa and Salkever are the coauthors of Your Happiness Was Hacked and The Immigrant Exodus.
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