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.