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The Driver in the Driverless Car
Vivek WadhwaAlex Salkever
其他書名
How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future (16pt Large Print Edition)
出版ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, 2017-04-03
主題Business & Economics / Industries / Computers & Information TechnologyBusiness & Economics / ForecastingSocial Science / GeneralTechnology & Engineering / Social AspectsTechnology & Engineering / History
ISBN03693139339780369313935
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2JZayQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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, will decide the driverless car's destination.