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The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future Audiobook, by Vivek Wadhwa Play Audiobook Sample

The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future Audiobook

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Read By: James Gillies Publisher: Ascent Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: April 2017 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781663746283

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

22

Longest Chapter Length:

35:45 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

16 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

16:18 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

This book teaches readers to evaluate the potential impact of any new technology by asking three simple questions. According to Vivek Wadhwa, it is up to everyone to choose how technology moves forward. Will our future be Star Wars or Mad Max? If we simply let change happen, we may give our vote to the dark side, which will steal our privacy and control everything by default. Technology is advancing faster than ever-but for better or for worse? On the one hand, astonishing technology developments such as personalized genomics, self-driving cars, drones, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. On the other hand, these very same technologies could raise the specter of a frightening and alienating future-eugenics, a jobless economy, a complete loss of privacy, and an ever-worsening spiral of economic inequality. How can we make appropriate decisions about whether and how to adopt new technologies? Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever propose that we ask three questions: Does the technology have the potential to benefit everyone equally? What are the risks and the rewards? Does the technology more strongly promote autonomy or independence? They subject a host of new and potential technologies to these questions, but ultimately it is up to the reader to make the final decision.

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About the Authors

James A. Gillies has been a familiar voice across BBC television and radio for nearly a quarter of a century. Trained at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, he has worked as an actor, continuity announcer, program narrator, and newsreader. He lives with his wife and two Norwegian Forest cats in Kilbarchan, Scotland.