A dangerous master : how to keep technology from slipping beyond our control /

Wallach, Wendell, 1946-

A dangerous master : how to keep technology from slipping beyond our control / Wendell Wallach - New York, NY : Basic Books, 2015 - vii, 328 pages ; 25 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-316) and index.

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.

"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.

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technology--ethics--social conditions--artificial intelligence--emerging technologies--biotechnology--R&D

robotics progress cybernetics