The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Your Technology Choices Create the Future, Second Edition
- 3h 22m
- Alex Salkever, Vivek Wadhwa
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- 2019
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.
About the Authors
Vivek Wadhwa is a Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering and a director of research at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He is a globally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post; author of The Immigrant Exodus, which the Economist named a Book of the Year of 2012; and coauthor of Innovating Women, which documents the struggles and triumphs of women in technology. Wadhwa has held appointments at Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, UC Berkeley, and Emory University and is an adjunct faculty member at Singularity University.
Alex Salkever is vice president of marketing communications at Mozilla. He was a technology editor of BusinessWeek, a regular science contributor to the Christian Science Monitor, and a contributor to The Immigrant Exodus.
In this Book
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A Bitter Taste of Dystopia
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Welcome to Moore's World
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How Change will Affect Us Personally and Why Our Choices Matter
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If Change is Always the Answer, What are the Questions?
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The Amazing and Scary Rise of Artificial Intelligence
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Remaking Education with Avatars and A.I.
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We Are Becoming Data; Our Doctors, Software
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Robotics and Biology: The Inevitable Merging of Man and Machine
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Security and Privacy in an Era of Ubiquitous Connectivity
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The Drones are Coming
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Designer Genes, the Bacteria in Our Guts, and Precision Medicine
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Your Own Private Driver: Self-Driving Cars, Trucks, and Planes
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When Your Scale Talks to Your Refrigerator: The Internet of Things
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The Future of Your Body is Electric
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Almost-Free Energy and Food
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Quantum Computing and the Next Frontier
