Talking to Robots by David Ewing Duncan
Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan sketches twenty-four visions of possible human-robot futures - short scenarios grounded in present-day technologies and ideas, but inspired by imagination. He explores how robots and AI systems may impact on individuals and societies over the next few years, centuries and beyond - for better or for worse.
A refreshing variation on the will-intelligent-robots-bring-Armageddon genre. . this colorful mixture of expert futurology and quirky speculation does not disappoint. * Kirkus *
Duncan writes the way good teachers teach, conversational, yet informed . . . [he] is a popularizer and storyteller. * USA Today *
A riveting read. * Time Magazine *
A brilliant chronicle of encounters with our future selves. -- Andrei Codrescu, bestselling author and NPR commentator
'Intensely readable, downright terrifying, and surprisingly uplifting.' * Vanity Fair *
'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.' -- Barbara VanDenburgh * ‘5 Books Not to Miss’, USA Today *
One of the best summer reads of 2019. -- David Baldacci and Elizabeth Acevedo * USA Today’s Today programme *
Duncan writes the way good teachers teach, conversational, yet informed . . . [he] is a popularizer and storyteller. * USA Today *
A riveting read. * Time Magazine *
A brilliant chronicle of encounters with our future selves. -- Andrei Codrescu, bestselling author and NPR commentator
'Intensely readable, downright terrifying, and surprisingly uplifting.' * Vanity Fair *
'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.' -- Barbara VanDenburgh * ‘5 Books Not to Miss’, USA Today *
One of the best summer reads of 2019. -- David Baldacci and Elizabeth Acevedo * USA Today’s Today programme *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9781472142900 |
| ISBN 10 | 147214290X |
| Title | Talking to Robots |
| Author | David Ewing Duncan |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2019-07-16 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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