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Technology is advancing faster than ever-but is it for better or for worse? On the one hand, astonishing technology developments from personalized genomics to self-driving cars could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. On the other hand, those same technologies could create a frightening and alienating future. How can we make appropriate decisions about whether 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? And does the technology more strongly promote autonomy or independence? To showcase the power of these questions, they subject a host of new and potential technologies to them-but it's up to the reader to decide.

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Vivek Wadhwa is a distinguished fellow and professor 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 and the author of two other books, including The Immigrant Exodus, which was named by The Economist as a 2012 Book of the Year. Alex Salkever is the 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. Julie Eickhoff is a voiceover artist and an Audible Approved Producer who has been voicing audiobooks, commercials, training modules, web videos, and telephone systems for over a decade. Her broadcasting background and Midwestern dialect make her recordings compelling and easy to listen to.

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