The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future by Wadhwa

The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future by Wadhwa

A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life.

Astonishing technological advances like these are arriving in increasing numbers. Scholar and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa uses this book to alert us to dozens of them and raise important questions about what they may mean for us.

Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, self-driving vehicles, drones, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. But the same technologies raise the specter of a frightening, alienating future: eugenics, a jobless economy, complete loss of privacy, and ever-worsening economic inequality. As Wadhwa puts it, our choices will determine if our future is Star Trek or Mad Max.

Wadhwa offers us three questions to ask about every emerging technology: Does it have the potential to benefit everyone equally? What are its risks and rewards? And does it promote autonomy or dependence? Looking at a broad array of advances in this light, he emphasizes that the future is up to us to create--that even if our hands are not on the wheel, we will decide the driverless car's destination.

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	9781626569713
ISBN 10	1626569711
Title	The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future
Author	Wadhwa
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Berrett-Koehler
Year published	2017-05-16
Number of pages	240
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