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Driver in the Driverless Car

By Alex Salkever

Driver in the Driverless Car Books

Driver in the Driverless Car

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2017-04-03
Publication Date:
2017-04-01
Publisher:
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1626569711
ISBN13:
9781626569713
Weight:
372 g
Height:
144 cm
Width:
223 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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