3 How Change Will Affect Us Personally and Why Our Choices Matter
4 If Change Is Always the Answer, What Are the Questions?
PART TWO
Does the Technology Have the Potential to Benefit Everyone Equally?
5 The Amazing and Scary Rise of Artificial Intelligence
6 Remaking Education with Avatars and A.I.
7 We Are Becoming Data; Our Doctors, Software
PART THREE
What Are the Risks and the Rewards?
8 Robotics and Biology: The Inevitable Merging of Man and Machine
9 Security and Privacy in an Era of Ubiquitous Connectivity
11 Designer Genes, the Bacteria in Our Guts, and Precision Medicine
PART FOUR
Does the Technology Foster Autonomy or Dependency?
12 Your Own Private Driver: Self-Driving Cars, Trucks, and Planes
13 When Your Scale Talks to Your Refrigerator: The Internet of Things
14 The Future of Your Body Is Electric
15 Almost-Free Energy and Food
16 Quantum Computing and the Next Frontier
Conclusion:
So Will It Be Star Trek or Mad Max?