Beyond Disruption: Technology's Challenge to Governance

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Synopsis
In Beyond Disruption: Technology's Challenge to Governance, George P. Shultz, Jim Hoagland, and James Timbie present views from some of the country's top experts in the sciences, humanities, and military that scrutinize the rise of post-millennium technologies in today's global society. They contemplate both the benefits and peril carried by the unprecedented speed of these innovations—from genetic editing, which enables us new ways to control infectious diseases, to social media, whose ubiquitous global connections threaten the function of democracies across the world. Some techniques, like the advent of machine learning, have enabled engineers to create systems that will make us more productive. For example, self-driving vehicles promise to make trucking safer, faster, and cheaper. However, using big data and artificial intelligence to automate complex tasks also ends up threatening to disrupt both routine professions like taxi driving and cognitive work by accountants, radiologists, lawyers, and even computer programmers themselves.
Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
312 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780817921460
Related ISBNs:
9780817921453
Publisher:
Hoover Institution Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
the Board of Trustees of the
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Technology, Social Studies, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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