The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future

by Vivek Wadhwa

Let Google drive your children to school? Trust a surgical robot to perform cancer surgery or supply a crucial diagnosis? Allow a doctor to permanently alter your own DNA in order to cure a disease? Let a computer educate your children and teach them the piano? Have a robot help your elderly parent into a slippery bathtub? Those are the kinds of decisions that that will be commonplace within one or two decades.

Interesting

and a robot will, rather than merely open a door, succeed in opening it while holding a bag of groceries and ensuring that the dog doesn’t escape.

Amazing

people are poorly designed to guide two-ton hunks of metal. People drink and drive, fiddle with radios, fall asleep at the wheel, drive too fast, mistake the accelerator for the brake, and on and on and on.