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The Driver in the Driverless Car
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The Driver in the Driverless Car

How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future

Berrett-Koehler, 2017 más...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Scientific
  • Applicable
  • Eye Opening

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Does the future hold a Star Trek utopia or a Mad Max dystopia – ordinary people will decide. For now, humanity is the ambivalent “driver” of technological change. Your voice matters in urgent debates about driverless cars, killer drones, artificial intelligence, job-stealing robots, data privacy and gene splicing. In this rapid-fire look at current and near-future paradigm-shifting technology, futurist Vivek Wadhwa – writing with tech editor Alex Salkever – focuses on equitability, risk versus benefit, and autonomy versus reliance. getAbstract recommends their eye-opening report to entrepreneurs, technologists, innovators, investors, futurists and curious consumers.

Take-Aways

  • The rise of “exponentially advancing technologies” means that humanity has a role – and a duty – in choosing its future.
  • Urgent human choices will determine whether the future unfolds as an equitable, techno-progressive Star Trek utopia or as a violent, regressive “Mad Max dystopia.”
  • Moore’s Law explains the relentless pace of transistor doubling on silicon chips.

About the Authors

Engineering professor, entrepreneur and columnist Vivek Wadhwa teaches at Carnegie Mellon and Duke. He co-authored The Immigrant Exodus – a 2012 The Economist book of the year. Former tech editor for BusinessWeek online, Alex Salkever is VP of communications at Mozilla.


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    L. T. 2 years ago
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    M. M. 7 years ago
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    M. d. 7 years ago
    ? The conclusion is to make smart choices?
    While the summary lists some technologies of the future, it fails to explain the interdependencies and the transition from one -topia to the next.

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