The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Your Technology Choices Create the Future Audiobook (Free)

Tech specialists Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever describe dozens of astonishing technological advances in this interesting and thought-provoking reserve, which asks the type of future lies ahead—Star Trek or Mad Potential?

Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, drones, self-driving vehicles, and artificial intelligence will make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. Alternatively, the same technology improve the specter of the frightening future—eugenics, a jobless overall economy, a complete lack of privacy, and ever-worsening economic inequality.

Wadhwa says that we need to ask three questions about every emerging technology: Does it have the to benefit everyone equally? What exactly are the potential risks and the rewards? And does it promote autonomy or dependence? This release is up to date throughout and includes a brand-new section on quantum computing, which promises greatly increased processing times—and vastly elevated security risks. In the long run, our future can be up to us; our hands may not be over the steering wheel, but we will determine the driverless car’s destination.