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A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control
A Dangerous Master How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control Author:Wendell Wallach From combat drones to nanotechnology, 3-D printers to synthetic organisms, our most recent inventions increasingly defy the norms for acceptable uses of technology. Who should be held accountable when machines break or when people die? What responsibility do we, as creators and users, have for the technologies we build? — In A Dangerous Master, e... more »thicist Wendell Wallach tackles such difficult questions in a thoughtful reconsideration of our technological future. Examining the players, institutions, and values that stand in the way of the regulation of everything from autonomous robots to designer drugs, Tech Storm proposes solutions for regaining control of our technological destiny. Wallach?s nuanced study offers both stark warnings and hope, navigating the middle ground between speculative fears about a dystopian future and the hype surrounding technological innovations. A masterful analysis of the forces we must manage in our quest to survive as a species, A Dangerous Master forces us to confront the purposes, both practical and moral, of our creations.« less