The Driver in the Driverless Car : How Your Technology Choices Create the Future
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: The Here and Now -- 1 A Bitter Taste of Dystopia -- 2 Welcome to Moore's World -- 3 How Change Will Affect Us Personally and Why Our Choices Matter -- 4 If Change Is Always the Answer, What Are the Questions? -- PART TWO: Does the Technology Have the Potential to Benefit Everyone Equally? -- 5 The Amazing and Scary Rise of Artificial Intelligence -- 6 Remaking Education with Avatars and A.I -- 7 We Are Becoming Data -- Our Doctors, Software -- PART THREE: What Are the Risks and the Rewards? -- 8 Robotics and Biology: The Inevitable Merging of Man and Machine -- 9 Security and Privacy in an Era of Ubiquitous Connectivity -- 10 The Drones Are Coming -- 11 Designer Genes, the Bacteria in Our Guts , and Precision Medicine -- PART FOUR: Does the Technology Foster Autonomy or Dependency? -- 12 Your Own Private Driver : Self-Driving Cars, Trucks, and Planes -- 13 When Your Scale Talks to Your Refrigerator: The Internet of Things -- 14 The Future of Your Body Is Electric -- 15 Almost-Free Energy and Food -- 16 Quantum Computing and the Next Frontier -- Conclusion: So Will It Be Star Trek or Mad Max? -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- About the Authors.
Year of publication: |
2019 ; 2nd ed.
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Authors: | Wadhwa, Vivek |
Other Persons: | Salkever, Alex (contributor) |
Publisher: |
Oakland : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated |
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Online Resource
Extent: | 1 online resource (268 pages) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
ISBN: | 978-1-5230-8554-5 ; 978-1-5230-8553-8 |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013331312
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