Author : Leonard Borman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2022-12-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781960250001
A novel about the Garden of Eden and the Cyborgian Transformation of the Human Race
Author : Leonard Borman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459607376
Leonard Borman has woven an instant classic with venues ranging from the Garden of Eden to the fields of modern fertility science, says Neal Karlen, author of The Story of Yiddish. Not only has Borman written a brilliantly entertaining, smart, and mindful allegory of faith and existence, he has found that eleventh commandment most of us didn't know was missing; Thou shall not nosh thy brother. With clever bibical subtext and glossary of terms, this book is a must read for anyone curious for an alternative, humorous take on human survival and Jewish family traditions.
Author : Illah Reza Nourbakhsh
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262528320
A roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more. With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will have superhuman abilities in both the physical and digital realms. They will be embedded in our physical spaces, with the ability to go where we cannot, and will have minds of their own, thanks to artificial intelligence. In Robot Futures, the roboticist Illah Reza Nourbakhsh considers how we will share our world with these creatures, and how our society could change as it incorporates a race of stronger, smarter beings. Nourbakhsh imagines a future that includes adbots offering interactive custom messaging; robotic flying toys that operate by means of “gaze tracking”; robot-enabled multimodal, multicontinental telepresence; and even a way that nanorobots could allow us to assume different physical forms. Nourbakhsh examines the underlying technology and the social consequences of each scenario. He also offers a counter-vision: a robotics designed to create civic and community empowerment. His book helps us understand why that is the robot future we should try to bring about.
Author : Amy Schwartz
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 2020-09-17
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ISBN : 9781942134671
A smart, hip and provocative book for anyone interested in the rich diversity of Jewish thought on contemporary religious questions.
Author : Joshua K. Smith
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1664219730
Robotic Persons will introduce the evangelical community to the journey of Robotic Futurism and how current and forthcoming AI-driven robots will impact human value and dignity. This book will consider three key areas of robotic development and the existential risks on the horizon for humans in the fields of work, war, and sex. There are risks in the fields of work, because there is a temptation to replace human workers with automation. Current arguments for the benefit of war fighting robots posit that these robots will eliminate war and the risk of war, but there is much more to the story. Arguments for sex and companion robots proffer that they will benefit the fringe community or help those who do not have a relative to care for them, but again there are many ethical and philosophical problems with these arguments. Robotic Persons not only introduces the reader to these issues, but also gives an evangelical response to each. There is presently no evangelical work addressing these critical issues. Robotic Persons will argue that granting legal personhood to qualified robots will further prevent dehumanizing use of robots and protect human dignity and value.
Author : Marc H. Ellis
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451413424
The most vital questions about Judaism—present and future—are prefigured, says Marc Ellis in the work of Elie Wiesel, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas. Ellis encounters each thinker to contemplate biblical, theological, and philosophical insights so to foster Jewish empowerment and to ensure a Jewish future.
Author : David Ewing Duncan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1524743615
Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan considers 24 visions of possible human-robot futures—Incredible scenarios from Teddy Bots to Warrior Bots, and Politician Bots to Sex Bots—Grounded in real technologies and possibilities and inspired by our imagination. 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.
Author : Leonard Borman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2022-12-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781959770992
Alexandra Haraldson, the deranged star of Leonard Borman's eccentric debut novel Our Jewish Robot Future, returns--only slightly more sane--in his new effort, FIX THE ROADS, as a retired accountant who wants to start a new career as a stand-up comedian. His ambition is to tell it like it is to the corrupt politicians and be the new Lenny Bruce, but with his well-used heart all aflutter over his new mistress Flossy, and his beloved city of Detroit suffering dire deterioration, he's in for a bumpy ride.
Author : J. Roth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 2898 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1349660191
Focused on 'The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide', Remembering for the Future brings together the work of nearly 200 scholars from more than 30 countries and features cutting-edge scholarship across a range of disciplines, amounting to the most extensive and powerful reassessment of the Holocaust ever undertaken. In addition to its international scope, the project emphasizes that varied disciplinary perspectives are needed to analyze and to check the genocidal forces that have made the Twentieth century so deadly. Historians and ethicists, psychologists and literary scholars, political scientists and theologians, sociologists and philosophers - all of these, and more, bring their expertise to bear on the Holocaust and genocide. Their contributions show the new discoveries that are being made and the distinctive approaches that are being developed in the study of genocide, focusing both on archival and oral evidence, and on the religious and cultural representation of the Holocaust.
Author : David Desser
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0252055160
Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Sidney Lumet, and Paul Mazursky, all sons of East European Jews, remain among the most prominent contemporary American film directors. In this revised, updated second edition of American Jewish Filmmakers, David Desser and Lester D. Friedman demonstrate how the Jewish experience gives rise to an intimately linked series of issues in the films of these and other significant Jewish directors. The effects of the Holocaust linger, both in gripping dramatic form (Mazursky's Enemies, a Love Story) and in black comedy (Brooks's The Producers). In his trilogy consisting of Serpico, Prince of the City, and Q&A, Lumet focuses on the failure of society's institutions to deliver social justice. Woody Allen portrays urban life and family relationships (Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters), sometimes with a nostalgic twist (Radio Days). This edition concludes with a newly written discussion of the careers of other prominent Jewish filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, Barry Levinson, Brian Singer, and Darren Aronofsky.
