The Driver in the Driverless Car by Vivek Wadhwa

The Driver in the Driverless Car by Vivek Wadhwa

" An excellent and wide-ranging review of our responses to accelerating technological change" from the authors of Your Happiness Was Hacked (Financial Times).

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.

"Vivek raises one of the most important issues of our time-the use of technology to uplift rather than displace humans. His book provides an invaluable guide for assessing the benefits and risks of future technologies." -Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

"Exponential technologies are about to transform every aspect of our lives . . . Vivek provides you a clear and authoritative blueprint for assessing their benefits and risks." -Peter H. Diamandis, MD, New York Times-bestselling author of Bold

Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur, a technologist, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering. A globally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, he coauthored with Alex Salkever The Immigrant Exodus (an Economist 2012 Book of the Year) and The Driver in the Driverless Car (long-listed for the Financial Times and McKinsey 2017 Business Book of the Year).

Alex Salkever is an author, futurist and technology leader. He co-authored with Vivek Wadhwa The Driver in the Driverless Car and The Immigrant Exodus. He is a columnist for Fortune and previously served as a Vice President at Mozilla as the Technology Editor of BusinessWeek.com and as a Guest Researcher at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering.

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ISBN 13	9781523085538
ISBN 10	1523085533
Title	The Driver in the Driverless Car
Author	Vivek Wadhwa
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Year published	2019-06-04
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.