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15%OFFWendell Wallach - A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control - 9780465058624 - V9780465058624
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A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control

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Description for A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDR; TJFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 243 x 35. Weight in Grams: 558.
We live in an age of awesome technological potential. From nanotechnology to synthetic organisms, new technologies stand to revolutionize whole domains of human experience. But with awesome potential comes awesome risk: drones can deliver a bomb as readily as they can a new smartphone makers and hackers can 3D-print guns as well as tools and supercomputers can short-circuit Wall Street just as easily as they can manage your portfolio.One thing these technologies can't do is answer the profound moral issues they raise. Who should be held accountable when they go wrong? What responsibility do we, as creators and users, have ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465058624
SKU
V9780465058624
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Wendell Wallach
Wendell Wallach is a consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary centre for Bioethics. He is the co-author of Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong. He lives in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

Reviews for A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control
"A Dangerous Master is reminiscent of
and sometimes even references
about a million popular books and movies: Robert Heinlein's I Will Fear No Evil; Isaac Asimov's I, Robot; David Mitchell's The Bone Doctors; Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age; GATTACCA; The Matrix; The X Men; The Phantom Menace. But while these works and the various dystopias they ... Read more

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