Q&A on the Book The Driver in the Driverless Car

The book The Driver in the Driverless Car by Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever explores how technology is changing faster and faster, and what impact that can have on the future of our society. It aims to help anyone - technical or non-technical - frame decisions and thinking about rapidly developing technologies. Salkever and Wadhwa cover a wide variety of such technologies, including robotics, AI, quantum computing, and driverless cars. InfoQ interviewed Wadhwa and Salkever about how the future from a technological point of view can look, how to approach technology in a positive way, what tasks robots are able to do or not do and what the future will bring, the benefits that self-driving cars bring and the challenges developing them, what developments are causing energy to become cheaper and cleaner, and what becomes possible with quantum computing. InfoQ: What made you decide to write this book?