Title:
A dangerous master : how to keep technology from slipping beyond our control / Wendell Wallach.
Author:
Wallach, Wendell, 1946- author.
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]
©2015
Call Number:
T173.8 .W325 2015
Abstract:
"The co-author of Moral Machines explores accountability challenges related to a world shaped by such technological innovations as combat drones, 3-D printers and synthetic organisms to consider how people of the near future can be protected,"--Novelist.
Electronic Access:
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1511/2015297288-b.htmlPublisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1511/2015297288-d.html
ISBN:
9780465058624
Physical Description:
vii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Navigating the future -- A prediction -- The C words -- The pace of change -- Trade-offs -- Engineering organisms -- Mastery of the human genome -- Transcending limits -- Cyborgs and Techno Sapiens -- Pathologizing human nature -- Drivers of the storm -- Terminating the terminator -- Engineering for responsibility -- Tools for governance -- Guild navigators.
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