Editor’s note: The right to decide what information we want to share and the right to know how it is being used should be fundamental human rights in this era of advancing technologies, writes former Triangle tech executive turned academic and author Vivek Wadhwa. SAN FRANCISCO – The exposure...
Read MoreEditor’s note: Vivek Wadhwa is a Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering. He is a globally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and author of The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future; The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, which was named by The Economist as a Book of the Year of 2012; and of Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology, which documents the struggles and triumphs of women. Wadhwa has held appointments at Duke University, Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, and Emory University and is a...
Read MoreEditor’s note: Former Triangle tech entrepreneur turned academic and author Vivek Wadhwa offers ideas about how regulators can improve the security for the growing Internet of Things. SAN FRANCISCO – Smart-television maker Vizio agreed to pay a penalty this month for spying on 11 million customers. According to the Federal Trade Commission, the company captured second-by-second information on what customers viewed, combined it with their gender, age and income, and sold it to third parties. How much was the fine for Vizio, which has sales in excess of $3 billion? It was $2.2 million — barely a slap on the wrist....
Read MoreEditor’s note: Former Triangle tech entrepreneur turned academic and author Vivek Wadhwa, a U.S. citizen and immigrant from India, says the Trump Administration’s executive order on immigration “sent shock waves through the tech industry over the weekend because it was a loud and clear message to the world that America’s doors are now closed, and xenophobia and bigotry are the new rules of law.” SAN FRANCISCO – Silicon Valley exports technology and imports the world’s best talent. That is how it has helped grow America’s economy and boosted its competitive advantage. President Trump’s executive order banning immigrants from some Muslim countries...
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Editor’s note: Digital assistants, called bots, will be the most amazing technology advances we see in our homes in 2017, says former Triangle tech entrepreneur-turned-academic and author Vivek Wadhwa. SAN FRANCISCO – In the 2013 movie “Her,” Theodore Twombly, a lonely writer, falls in love with a digital assistant...
Read MorePicture the commute of the future: You live in Palo Alto, Calif., but work 350 miles away in Los Angeles. After your morning latte, you click on a smartphone app to summon your digital chauffeur. An autonomous car shows up at your front door three minutes later to drive you to a Hyperloop station in downtown Mountain View, where a pod then transports you through a vacuum tube at 760 mph. When you reach the Pasadena station, another self-driving car awaits to take you to your office. You reach your destination in less than an hour. That is the...
Read MoreStephen Hawking made a bold headline last week: “This is the most dangerous time for our planet.” In an essay in the Guardian, the renowned theoretical physicist wrote: “Whatever we might think about the decision by the British electorate to reject membership of the European Union and by the American public to embrace Donald Trump as their next president, there is no doubt in the minds of commentators that this was a cry of anger by people who felt they had been abandoned by their leaders.” Technology is the main culprit here, widening the gulf between the haves and the have-nots....
Read MoreEditor’s note: Former Triangle tech entrepreneur and resident Vivek Wadhwa, now an author and academic, is a frequent contributor to WRALTechWire. SAN FRANCISCO – Technology is advancing so rapidly that we will experience radical changes in society not only in our lifetimes but in the coming years. We have already begun to see ways in which computing, sensors, artificial intelligence and genomics are reshaping entire industries and our daily lives. As we undergo this rapid change, many of the old assumptions that we have relied will no longer apply. Technology is creating a new set of rules that will...
Read MoreEditor’s note: Vivek Wadhwa is Distinguished Fellow and professor at Carnegie Mellon University Engineering at Silicon Valley and a director of research at Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke. His past appointments include Stanford Law School, the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard Law School, and Emory University. He is a former tech entrepreneur in the Research Triangle and is a frequent contributor to WRAL TechWire. Aaron Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University and writes about the moral implications of technology. SAN FRANCISCO – The United States has on its...
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