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

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

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

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

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781523085538
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication date: 06/04/2019
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 139,709
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition vii

Preface ix

Introduction xi

Part 1 The Here and Now

1 A Bitter Taste of Dystopia 3

2 Welcome to Moore's World 8

3 How Change Will Affect Us Personally and Why Our Choices Matter 19

4 If Change Is Always the Answer, What Are the Questions? 27

Part 2 Does the Technology Have the Potential to Benefit Everyone Equally?

5 The Amazing and Scary Rise of Artificial Intelligence 37

6 Remaking Education with Avatars and A.I. 47

7 We Are Becoming Data; Our Doctors, Software 64

Part 3 What Are the Risks and the Rewards?

8 Robotics and Biology: The Inevitable Merging of Man and Machine 89

9 Security and Privacy in an Era of Ubiquitous Connectivity 106

10 The Drones Are Coming 118

11 Designer Genes, the Bacteria in Our Guts, and Precision Medicine 128

Part 4 Does the Technology Foster Autonomy or Dependency?

12 Your Own Private Driver: Self-Driving Cars, Trucks, and Planes 149

13 When Your Scale Talks to Your Refrigerator: The Internet of Things 165

14 The Future of Your Body Is Electric 176

15 Almost-Free Energy and Food 188

16 Quantum Computing and the Next Frontier 202

Conclusion: So Will It Be Star Trek or Mad Max? 211

Notes 213

Acknowledgments 231

Index 233

About the Authors 241

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