The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2017
Authors:	Wadhwa
Dimensions:	221 x 145 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-62656-971-3
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > General
LSN:	1-62656-971-1
Barcode:	9781626569713

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