Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future Wadhwa Vivek
Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future Wadhwa Vivek A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Labs are creating life-forms…
Specifikacia Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future Wadhwa Vivek
Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future Wadhwa Vivek
A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. Another is composing classical music.
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. 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. 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