Vivek Wadhwa is a Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon
University's College of Engineering and a director of research at
Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. He is a globally
syndicated columnist for the Washington Post; author of The
Immigrant Exodus, which the Economist named a Book of the Year of
2012; and coauthor of Innovating Women, which documents the
struggles and triumphs of women in technology. Wadhwa has held
appointments at Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, UC
Berkeley, and Emory University and is an adjunct faculty member at
Singularity University.
Alex Salkever is vice president of marketing communications at
Mozilla. He was a technology editor of BusinessWeek, a regular
science contributor to the Christian Science Monitor, and a
contributor to The Immigrant Exodus.
"....a succinct and provocative examination of the social and
ethical implications of breakthroughs."
- 2017 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year - Long
List "Writing with Alex Salkever, Wadhwa ranges over applications
from genome editing and the Internet of Things to artificial
intelligence, weighing up their potential for risk and the
universality of any benefits. Readers may not all share his
enthusiasm for autonomous vehicles, but his pointed analyses of the
coming transformations add nuance to the debate."
--Barbara Kiser, Books in Brief, Nature Magazine "I strongly
recommend this well-written book. You would be hard put to find
another review of technological advance that covers so much ground
so succinctly -- and at times so provocatively."
--Clive Cookson, Financial Times Summer Books of 2017: Science "Of
all the books I have read so far this year, 'The Driver in the
Driverless Car - How our technology choices will create the future'
by American technology guru Vivek Wadhwa and tech journalist Alex
Salkever impressed me the most."
--Kofi Annan Foundation, Summer Book Club 2017 "Vivek raises one of
the most important issues of our time -- the use of technology to
uplift rather than displace humans. His book provides an invaluable
guide for assessing the benefits and risks of future
technologies."
--Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft
"Exponential technologies are about to transform every aspect of
our lives. Understanding the potential and implications of these
technologies is crucial to every person and every company. In this
book, Vivek provides you a clear and authoritative blueprint for
assessing their benefits and risks."
--Peter H. Diamandis, MD, cofounder and Executive Chairman,
Singularity University, and author of New York Times bestsellers
Abundance and Bold
"Realizing the promise of the accelerating returns in front of us
while avoiding the peril is arguably the most important issue for
humankind's future. Vivek's new book articulately and insightfully
examines the contours of both."
--Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist, and author of The Singularity
Is Near and How to Create a Mind
"Brilliant book! Our constantly-in-change world is now running on
'exponential time, ' and this disruption has huge consequences.
Vivek gives us the prism to make sense of it all."
--John Sculley, former CEO, Apple
"Vivek possesses the brilliance and vision to foretell the
technological path that will define our future. More important, he
has the heart and compassion to trumpet the clarion call so that,
as business leaders, we know how to take our employees with us on
this journey of innovative enlightenment."
--Lynn Tilton, CEO, Patriarch Partners, LLC
"The questions this book raises are too important to be ignored by
our political leaders or by the general public. Vivek Wadhwa
compellingly explains the awesome opportunities technological
advances hold for us. He also demonstrates the urgent need to
establish a new system of governance to ensure that we can reap the
rewards while containing the risks awaiting us."
--Kofi Annan, seventh United Nations Secretary General; corecipient
of the Nobel Peace Prize; and founder and Chairman, Kofi Annan
Foundation
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