The Driver in the Driverless Car (eBook)

How Your Technology Choices Create the Future

Vivek Wadhwa, Alex Salkever (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019 | 2. Auflage
256 Seiten
Berrett-Koehler Publishers (Verlag)
9781523085552 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2019
• Verlagsort: Oakland
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Artificial Intelligence • artificial intelligence, rise of the machines, drones, privacy, smart technology, eugenics, genomics, security, robotics, automation, technology, philosophy, psychology, machines, education, disruption, autonomy, big data, healthcare, humanity, media • books for engineers • books for politicians • Business Forecasting • Computers • drones • emerging • Future • machines • privacy • Rise of the Machines • robots • security • Smart • Technological advances • Technology • technology, technological advances, rise of the machines, emerging, artificial intelligence, smart, drones, books for engineers, books for politicians, business forecasting, computers, machines, robots, future, security, privacy
• ISBN-13: 9781523085552 / 9781523085552