The driver in the driverless car : how our technology choices will create the future
Wadwha, Vivek2017
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Technology is advancing faster than ever-but for better or for worse? On the one hand, astonishing technology developments such as personalized genomics, self-driving cars, drones, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. On the other hand, these very same technologies could raise the specter of a frightening and alienating future-eugenics, a jobless economy, a complete loss of privacy, and an ever-worsening spiral of economic inequality. How can we make appropriate decisions about whether and how to adopt new technologies? Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever propose that we ask three questions: Does the technology have the potential to benefit everyone equally? What are the risks and the rewards? Does the technology more strongly promote autonomy or independence? They subject a host of new and potential technologies to these questions, but ultimately it is up to the reader to make the final decision. -- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
The driver in the driverless car : how our technology choices will create the future / Vivek Wadwha with Alex Salkever.
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
Oakland, CA : BK Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., a BK Business book, 2017.
Collation:
xv, 217 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"A BK Business book."Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE The Here and Now -- 1.A Bitter Taste of Dystopia -- 2.Welcome to Moore's World -- 3.How Change Will Affect Us Personally and Why Our Choices Matter -- 4.If Change Is Always the Answer, What Are the Questions? -- pt. TWO Does the Technology Have the Potential to Benefit Everyone Equally? -- 5.The Amazing and Scary Rise of Artificial Intelligence -- 6.Remaking Education with Avatars and A.I. -- 7.We Are Becoming Data; Our Doctors, Software -- pt. THREE What Are the Risks and the Rewards? -- 8.Robotics and Biology: The Inevitable Merging of Man and Machine -- 9.Security and Privacy in an Era of Ubiquitous Connectivity -- 10.The Drones Are Coming -- 11.Designer Genes, the Bacteria in Our Guts, and Precision Medicine -- pt. FOUR Does the Technology Foster Autonomy or Dependency? -- 12.Your Own Private Driver: Self-Driving Cars, Trucks, and Planes -- 13.When Your Scale Talks to Your Refrigerator: The Internet of Things --Contents note continued: 14.The Future of Your Body Is Electric -- 15.Almost Free Energy and Food.
ISBN:
9781626569713
Dewey class:
303.483
Language:
English
BRN:
353084
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