tales from our human-robot futures Duncan, David Ewing 1958- creator text nyu 2019 monographic eng

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viii, 303 pages ; 24 cm. 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. 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. David Ewing Duncan. Robotics Human factors Robótica Factores humanos Human-robot interaction Interacción humano-robot TJ 211.49 D911t 2019 629.8/924019 Duncan, David Ewing, author. New York : Dutton, Penguin Random House, [2019] (DLC) 2019009377 9781524743598 (hardcover) 1524743593 (hardcover) 2019004797 DLC 190201 20250304161634.0 20834449 eng