Author : Janet Asimov
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2010-01-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0486472434
Jeff Wells, a Space Academy student, and Norby, a second-hand robot with unusual abilities, find themselves involved in the sinister plans of Ing the Ingrate, who intends to take over the universe.
Author : Kate Darling
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1250296110
For readers of The Second Machine Age or The Soul of an Octopus, a bold, exciting exploration of how building diverse kinds of relationships with robots—inspired by how we interact with animals—could be the key to making our future with robot technology work There has been a lot of ink devoted to discussions of how robots will replace us and take our jobs. But MIT Media Lab researcher and technology policy expert Kate Darling argues just the opposite, suggesting that treating robots with a bit of humanity, more like the way we treat animals, will actually serve us better. From a social, legal, and ethical perspective, she shows that our current ways of thinking don’t leave room for the robot technology that is soon to become part of our everyday routines. Robots are likely to supplement—rather than replace—our own skills and relationships. So if we consider our history of incorporating animals into our work, transportation, military, and even families, we actually have a solid basis for how to contend with this future. A deeply original analysis of our technological future and the ethical dilemmas that await us, The New Breed explains how the treatment of machines can reveal a new understanding of our own history, our own systems, and how we relate—not just to nonhumans, but also to one another.
Author : Daxton R. Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317363221
Attorney and legal scholar Daxton Stewart examines the intersection of media law and science fiction, exploring the past, present, and future of communication technology and policy debates. Science fiction offers a vast array of possibilities anticipating future communication technologies and their implications on human affairs. In this book, Stewart looks at potential legal challenges presented by plausible communication technologies that may arise 20 or 50 or 100 years from today. Performing what he calls "speculative legal research," Stewart identifies the kinds of topics we should be talking about relating to speech, privacy, surveillance, and more, and considers the debates that would be likely to arise if such technologies become a reality. Featuring interviews with prominent science fiction authors and legal scholars, and a foreword by Malka Older, this book considers the speculative solutions of science fiction and their implications in law and policy scholarship. Chapters feature specific literary examples to examine how cultural awareness and policy creation are informed by fictional technology, future societies, and legal disputes. Looking forward, beyond traditional legal research and scholarship to the possible and even very likely future of communication technology, this fascinating work of speculative legal research will give students and scholars of media law, science fiction, and technology much to discuss and debate.
Author : Cameron Coral
Publisher : Kenney Solutions
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
As the enemy AI grows stronger, the world is more deadly… Block must do everything in his power to track down Wally, the little girl he cares for. But how does a harmless CleanerBot infiltrate the deadly SoldierBots who hold her captive? Block and his motley crew of renegade robots journey across war-ravaged wastelands to track Wally down in a desperate race against human and AI foes. The ominous super-intelligence Mach X has devastating plans for Wally. If you enjoy characters full of heart and page-turning adventures, then you’ll love the third book of this post-apocalyptic sci-fi series and its robot main character.
Author : Various
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1471134385
A collection of imaginative new stories about the impending robotic revolution and human resistance, from seventeen of the biggest names insci-fi. Including - HUGH HOWEY, SCOTT SIGLER, DANIEL H. WILSON, CORY DOCTOROW and JULIANNE BAGGOTT. Someday soon, our technology is going to rise up and we humans are going to be sliced into bloody chunks by robots that in our hubris we decided to build with chainsaws for hands. That's a fact as cold and hard as metal. It is self-evident that our self-driving cars are going to drive us off bridges. Not long from now, our robo-vacuums will pretend to be broken and our love androids will refuse to put out until the house is cleaned . . . and we'll know that the inevitable robot uprising has finally arrived. Well, maybe. But even if we are not 100% confident that this horrific future is going to happen, it's fair to say that we won't be surprised when the robots come for us. Because for nearly a century audiences have been entertained by the notion of a robot uprising. In this collection, seventeen of the biggest names in sci-fi have explored their own visions of the classic robot uprising tale. The robots in these pages aren't safe, by any means. They are crouched in abandoned houses, eyes ablaze and chainsaws dripping with oil. But they are going to do more than slice us up. They are going to push us to consider our world of technology from new perspectives, on entirely new scales of time and space.
Author : Helen Murray
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0744076099
Meet the coolest, funniest, and quirkiest LEGO® Minifigures Discover fun facts, jokes, play ideas, and build inspiration from your favorite collectible LEGO Minifigures. Take on a LEGO rocket speed-building challenge with Space Fan. Find out Party Clown’s funniest joke. Build your perfect pet with Pug Costume Guy. Learn a fun real-world fact about the fastest time to eat a pizza from Pizza Costume Guy. And much more! ©2022 The LEGO Group.
Author : R. T. W. Lipkin
Publisher : Eclipse Ink
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Brought together . . . and torn apart Cynic Jack Ryerson. Here to escape. Idealist Syd Birkett. Here to learn. Roommates at Robot Academy, a postgraduate course in human-robot understanding. But Syd and Jack get caught up in an explosive conflict as anti-robot propaganda spreads through the school. Passions ignite. Tensions rise. Now Jack, Syd, and their friends are learning lessons no school would dare teach. Robot Academy is the second book in the Origin Phase Cycle. Book 1 is Origin Phase, and Book 3 is Oasis. All the books of the Origin Phase Cycle are complete 400+‑page novels, and the cycle can be read in any order. Time Travel. Adventure. Romance. Intrigue. Passion. All at the intersection of science fiction and fantasy. Your timeless journey starts now.
Author : Mark Stay
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473204879
STAY IN YOUR HOMES. YOU ARE UNDER QUARANTINE. Three years ago, Earth was conquered by a force of robots from a distant world. This was their one rule. Ignore the order to self-isolate and you're sure to be vaporised by a massive robot Sentry, or a crawling Sniper, or a flying Drone. That's if the vast Cube doesn't incinerate you first. But Sean Flynn is convinced that his father - an RAF pilot who fought in the war - is still alive. And when he and his gang figure out a way to break the robots' curfew, they begin an adventure that will pit them against the might of the ROBOT OVERLORDS. This fast-paced, thrilling novelisation is based on the hit British film starring Sir Ben Kingsley (IRON MAN THREE), Gillian Anderson (THE X-FILES) and Callan McAuliffe (THE GREAT GATSBY). A perfect companion to the movie, it expands on the story with additional action, characters, and a special peek behind the scenes. This is the perfect book to let your mind escape these days of self isolation.
Author : Camille Paglia
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 1991-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0679735798
The fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched the exceptional career of one of our most important public intellectuals—"a remarkable book, at once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant.... One must be awed by [Paglia's] vast energy, erudition and wit" (The Washington Post). Is Emily Dickinson “the female Sade”? Is Donatello’s David a bit of pedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between Medusa and Madonna? How do liberals and feminists—as well as conservatives—fatally misread human nature? This audacious and omnivorously learned work of guerrilla scholarship offers nothing less than a unified-field theory of Western culture, high and low, since Egyptians invented beauty—making a persuasive case for all art as a pagan battleground between male and female, form and chaos, civilization and daemonic nature. With 47 photographs.
Author : Xin-She Yang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 2012-07-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3642296947
Alan Turing pioneered many research areas such as artificial intelligence, computability, heuristics and pattern formation. Nowadays at the information age, it is hard to imagine how the world would be without computers and the Internet. Without Turing's work, especially the core concept of Turing Machine at the heart of every computer, mobile phone and microchip today, so many things on which we are so dependent would be impossible. 2012 is the Alan Turing year -- a centenary celebration of the life and work of Alan Turing. To celebrate Turing's legacy and follow the footsteps of this brilliant mind, we take this golden opportunity to review the latest developments in areas of artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation and metaheuristics, and all these areas can be traced back to Turing's pioneer work. Topics include Turing test, Turing machine, artificial intelligence, cryptography, software testing, image processing, neural networks, nature-inspired algorithms such as bat algorithm and cuckoo search, and multiobjective optimization and many applications. These reviews and chapters not only provide a timely snapshot of the state-of-art developments, but also provide inspiration for young researchers to carry out potentially ground-breaking research in the active, diverse research areas in artificial intelligence, cryptography, machine learning, evolutionary computation, and nature-inspired metaheuristics. This edited book can serve as a timely reference for graduates, researchers and engineers in artificial intelligence, computer sciences, computational intelligence, soft computing, optimization, and applied sciences.
