{"product_id":"talking-to-robots-a-brief-guide-to-our-human-robot-futures","title":"David Ewing Duncan: Talking to Robots [2019] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eTime m\u003c\/i\u003eagazine's '32 Books You Need to Read This Summer' -- 'a riveting read'.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Intensely readable, downright terrifying, and surprisingly uplifting.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fascinating work of imaginative futurology, a science journalist takes a look at our current technologies and anticipates the human-robot future that could await us - one full of warrior bots, politician bots, doctor bots and sex bots.'\u003cbr\u003eOne of Barbara VanDenburgh's '5 Books Not to Miss', \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the best summer reads of 2019, according to top authors David Baldacci and Elizabeth Acevedo on \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e's Today programme. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A refreshing variation on the will-intelligent-robots-bring-Armageddon genre . . . this colorful mixture of expert futurology and quirky speculation does not disappoint'\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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 about more than the potential of the technology - it also concerns what robots tell us about being human.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom present-day Facebook and Amazon bots to near-future 'intimacy' bots and 'the robot that swiped my job' bots, bestselling American popular science writer David Ewing Duncan's \u003ci\u003eTalking to Robots\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully entertaining and insightful guide to possible future scenarios about robots, both real and imagined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeatured bots include robot drivers; doc bots; politician bots; warrior bots; sex bots; synthetic\u003cbr\u003ebio bots; dystopic bots that are hopefully just bad dreams; and ultimately, God Bot (as\u003cbr\u003edescribed by physicist Brian Greene).  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese scenarios are informed by discussions with well-known thinkers, engineers, scientists, artists, philosophers and others, who share with us their ideas, hopes and fears about robots. David spoke with, among others, Kevin Kelly, David Baldacci, Brian Greene, Dean Kamen, Craig Venter, Stephanie Mehta, David Eagleman, George Poste, George Church, General R. H. Latiff, Robert Seigel, Emily Morse, David Sinclair, Ken Goldberg, Sunny Bates, Adam Gazzaley, Tim O'Reilly, Tiffany Shlain, Eric Topol and Juan Enriquez.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese discussions, along with some reporting on bot-tech, bot-history and real-time societal and\u003cbr\u003eethical issues with robots, are the launch pads for unfurling possible bot futures that are informed by how people and societies have handled new technologies in the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book describes how robots work, but its primary focus is on what our fixation with bots\u003cbr\u003eand AI says about us as humans: about our hopes and anxieties; our myths, stories, beliefs and\u003cbr\u003eideas about beings both real and artificial; and our attempts to attain perfection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are at a pivotal moment when our ancient infatuation with human-like beings with certain\u003cbr\u003eattributes or superpowers - in mythology, religion and storytelling - is coinciding with our\u003cbr\u003eability to actually build some of these entities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duncan, David Ewing","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44523014357282,"sku":"9781472142900","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/duncan-david-ewing-talking-to-robots-a-brief-guide-to-our-human-robot-futures-9781472142900-40673351598370.jpg?v=1677266630","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/talking-to-robots-a-brief-guide-to-our-human-robot-futures","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}