The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Your Technology Choices Create the Future

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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