Talking to Robots
Tales from Our Human-robot Futures
New York : Dutton, Penguin Random House, [2019]
Format: Book
Description: viii, 303 pages ; 24 cm
Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan considers 24 visions of possible human-robot futures--Incredible scenarios from Teddy Bots to Warrior Bots, and Politician Bots to Sex Bots--Grounded in real technologies and possibilities and inspired by our imagination.
What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us? What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate about our human-robot future? For even as robots and A.I. intrigue us and make us anxious about the future, our fascination with robots has always been about more than the potential of the technology-it's also about what robots tell us about being human.
What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us? What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate about our human-robot future? For even as robots and A.I. intrigue us and make us anxious about the future, our fascination with robots has always been about more than the potential of the technology-it's also about what robots tell us about being human.
Contents:
Teddy bear bot -- The robot that stole my job -- Sex (intimacy) bot -- Wearable bot -- Facebook bot -- Doctor bot -- Hello robot driver -- Warrior bot -- Beer bot -- It's not about the robot bot -- Politician bot -- Brain optimization bot -- Amazon bot -- Journalism bot -- Mars (Daemon) bot -- Risk-free bot -- Coffee delivery bot -- Thriller bot -- Memory bot -- Matrix bot -- Homo digitalis/homo syntheticis -- Tourist (evolution) bot -- God bot -- Immortal me bot.
ISBN:
9781524743598 (hardcover)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TECH Robotics Dun | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |