02507cam a2200421 i 4500 20834449 BJBSDDR 20250304161634.0 ta 190201s2019 nyu 000 0 eng 2019004797 9781524743598 (hardcover) 1524743593 (hardcover) 9781524743611 (ebook) DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc TJ 211.49 D911t 2019 629.8/924019 Duncan, David Ewing, 1958- 40609 Talking to robots : tales from our human-robot futures / David Ewing Duncan. New York : Dutton, 2019. viii, 303 pages ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. 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. Robotics Human factors. Robótica Factores humanos 27053 Human-robot interaction. Interacción humano-robot 34170 Online version: Duncan, David Ewing, author. Talking to robots New York : Dutton, Penguin Random House, [2019] 9781524743611 (DLC) 2019009377 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK dpf 122823 122823 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-02-12 0 TJ 211.49 D911t 2019 00000173328 2025-02-12 00:00:00 1 2025-02-12 BK