Tech professionals Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever describe a large number of astonishing technological advances in this interesting and thought-provoking publication, which asks the type of future lies ahead—Celebrity Trek or Mad Utmost?

Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, drones, self-driving vehicles, and artificial cleverness will make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. Alternatively, the same systems raise the specter of a frightening future—eugenics, a jobless economy, a complete loss of personal privacy, and ever-worsening financial inequality.

Wadhwa says that people need to ask three questions about every emerging technology: Does it have the to benefit everyone equally? What are the risks and the benefits? And will it promote autonomy or dependence? This model is up to date throughout and includes a new section on quantum processing, which promises vastly increased processing times—and vastly increased security risks. In the end, our future is definitely up to us; our hands may not be within the steering wheel, but we will determine the driverless car’s destination.