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In this edition of a bestselling classic, scholar and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa examines dozens of new technologies and raises critical questions about what they may mean for us. The Driver in the Driverless Car, second edition, discusses the accelerating changes in genomics and the use of CRISPR, a DNA modification technology, to manipulate human embryos, reexamines driverless cars in the wake of Uber deaths, and explores how advances in AI are enabling robots to perform tasks we naively assumed would remain the province of humans. Astonishing breakthroughs like these are arriving in increasing numbers. However, these same technologies raise the specter of a frightening, alienating future: eugenics, a jobless economy, a complete loss of privacy, and ever-worsening economic inequality. As Wadhwa puts it, our choices will determine if our future is Star Trek or Mad Max.

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Vivek Wadhwa is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program, a professor at Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering, and a globally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post. Alex Salkever is a technology leader and author. He has been a chief marketing officer, a Businessweek editor, a visiting researcher at Duke University, and a senior executive at leading technology companies. He pens columns regularly for Fortune and consults for numerous technology companies.

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