Clive GiffordA Question of Technology: Will Robots Take Over the World?
And other questions about AI
Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children's books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards' Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk
1: What is a robot?
2: What was the first robot?
3: Why do robots get all the boring jobs?
4: How do robots know where to go?
5: How do robots save lives?
6: Why send robots into space?
7: Will robots take all our jobs?
8: Why don't more robots look like us?
9: How small can robots go?
10: Does a robot know it's holding a banana?
11: Can robots save the planet?
12: Will robots take over the world?
13: Quick-fire questions
14: Glossary/further reading
15: Index