The driver in the driverless car
Subtitle: how our technology choices will create the future
By: Vivek Wadhwa with Alex Salkever
Contributors: Salkever, Alex, author
Edition: First edition.
Series: A BK business book; BK business book
Publisher: BK Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., a BK Business Book
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781626569713
Subjects: Social aspects; Technology; Technological forecasting
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one.; title: The here and now.-- -- 1.; title: A bitter taste of dystopia -- -- 2.; title: Welcome to Moore's world -- -- 3.; title: How change will affect us personally and why our choices matter -- -- 4.; title: If change is always the answer, what are the questions? -- -- Part two.; title: Does the technology have the potential to benefit everyone equally? -- 5.; title: The amazing and scary rise of artificial intelligence -- -- 6.; title: Remaking education with avatars and A.I. -- -- 7.; title: We are becoming data; our doctors, software -- -- Part three.; title: What are the risks and rewards? -- 8.; title: Robotics and biology : the inevitable merging of man and machine -- -- 9.; title: Security and privacy in an era of ubiquitous connectivity -- -- 10.; title: The drones are coming -- -- 1.; title: Designer genes, the bacteria in our guts, and precision medicine -- -- Part four.; title: Does the technology foster autonomy or dependency?  12.; title: Your own private driver : self-driving cars, trucks, and planes -- -- 13.; title: When your scale talks to your refrigerator : the Internet of things -- -- 14.; title: The future of your body is electric -- -- 15.; title: Almost free energy and food -- -- Conclusion:; title: So will it be Star trek or Mad Max?