Talking to Robots
A Brief Guide to Our Human-Robot Futures
$28.24
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
23 July 2019
Summary
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 for our human-robot future? For even as robots and AI intrigue us and make us anxious about the future, our fascination with robots has always been…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472142917 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472142918 |
| Author: | David Ewing Duncan |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 23 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 154mm x 25mm |
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Calendar sparkles. Gripping, expansive and scholarly, it will be indispensable reading for years to come. Duncan has achieved a rare feat in turning something ordinary into an extraordinary metaphor of life. - ObserverPraise for Calendar:As the new millennium approaches, this fine book will prove to all readers that the establishment of a consistent and useful calendar is no dull work of drones and bean counters, but one of humanity’s greatest achievements and the embodiment of our culture, history and progress.Praise for Calendar:Duncan writes the way good teachers teach, conversational, yet informed he is a popularizer and storyteller. - USA Today Editor s PickAbout The Author
David Ewing Duncan
David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning science journalist. A contributor to Wired, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, National Public Radio, ABC News, The Atlantic, and National Geographic and the bestselling author of eleven books published in twenty-one languages, he was founding director of the Center for Life Science Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
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